Scrapping a Danckaert Saw Mill

[liamjordan]

What we were doing today blasphemy through my eyes, but whats done is done.

 

Grandad bought a big old Danckaert Bandsaw years ago when a local saw mill closed down, he started setting it up in the yard but never got around to finishing it. So its just been sat covered up, and now we have started to scrap it slowly as he'll get a lot more money for it in scrap that what he gave for it.

 

This saw is one hell of thing, im gutted i have never seen it going. Today we scrapped the wheels that the bandsaw ran on, these give you an idea of the size of the saw!

 

That one piece on the landy weighed just under a ton, hell of a lump, and just fit nice and snug

 

Well was a good day anyway

[Tree Man Tom]

With the price of scrap mate i dont blame him. Sure looks a big old lump!

[liamjordan]

yeah man! theres probably another 15 ton plus under the sheet, so it was a fair size saw

[Tree Man Tom]

Suspect theres over 2k worth of scrap there then. £140 a ton i got last week

[Stephen Blair]

£210 a ton up here guys, and that stuff looks good stuff:001_cool:

[Tree Man Tom]

£210 a ton up here guys, and that stuff looks good stuff:001_cool:

 

Crikey lol thats top money

[Brushcutter]

Good old machines the Danckaert. Belgian i believe, there we a few back in the old cabinate making workshop. Nothing as big as that though

probally of looked like that when it was up and running?

[eggsarascal]

Suspect theres over 2k worth of scrap there then. £140 a ton i got last week

 

weighed in a Ford Escort this monday and got £175, you need to find a different scrap dealer, a few weeks ago i was weighing in electric motors one dealer was paying £500 a tonne another only a few miles away paid me £600 a tonne, it pays to have a ring around the day your going over the weigh bridge.

[Stephen Blair]

Crikey lol thats top money

 

It was £240 a couple of years back:001_cool:

[liamjordan]

Suspect theres over 2k worth of scrap there then. £140 a ton i got last week

think its about £170 here at the moment i'll find out in the morn when i see grandad

 

Good old machines the Danckaert. Belgian i believe, there we a few back in the old cabinate making workshop. Nothing as big as that though

probally of looked like that when it was up and running?

yeah man that the sort of thing! it was semi set up there, he had concreted it down and made the saw pit out of a big steel water tank, shame he never finished it