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Jeff_Schultz ASSRA Board Member Offline Posts: 1603 Location: Ransomville, NY Joined: Apr 25^th, 2004	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #15 - Sep 30^th, 2013 at 5:55pm	Print Post
	westerner wrote on Sep 30^th, 2013 at 5:19pm: Chainsaw would make one heck of a mess. Air tight Tyvex suit and supplied air? Suit up suit down area? Carbon arc rod. No air. No mess. Have not tried it. Lead fumes? Jack hammer is an old mans tool. Pick and shovel is young guys tools. Joe. OK, maybe axe, maybe crosscut saw?

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JSB30 Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 395 Location: Missouri Joined: Apr 30^th, 2011	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #16 - Sep 30^th, 2013 at 6:25pm	Print Post
	I had a piece that was 10 in thick and weighed 3300 lbs. I cut it up with a chainsaw into 40 to 60 lb blocks. Swept up about three 5 gallon buckets of chips. Melted them down in a dutch over on a fishcooker burner. Need good ventilation when that bar oil gets burning out.


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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11458 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #17 - Sep 30^th, 2013 at 6:36pm	Print Post
	[quote/] Joe. OK, maybe axe, maybe crosscut saw? [/quote] Traditional. Joe.

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JSB30 Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 395 Location: Missouri Joined: Apr 30^th, 2011	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #18 - Sep 30^th, 2013 at 6:37pm	Print Post
	Chain Saw, couple of afternoons and you end up with this.


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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #19 - Sep 30^th, 2013 at 7:54pm	Print Post
	Fitz you are indeed the one I heard it from and it was quite some time back. Thanks for refreshing my memory it was driving me crazy. JLouis

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QuestionableMaynard8130 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4144 Location: Benton Harbor MI Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #20 - Sep 30^th, 2013 at 8:19pm	Print Post
	---that picture makes my back hurt just looking at it I wonder if an old "buzz saw" with lots of lube would chew through it.... I have 4 or 5 big tractor/disc weights that probably weigh a couple hundred pounds apiece, but they came from my late father-in-laws stuff and he had been a printer all his life so I'm sure it's probably all type metal of who knows what kind, linotype, mono-type, 'foundry type" --- There are all sorts and the devil only knows the alloys he melted together to get the weights. I figured I'd hang them up with a log chain over a stout tree limb above my big 5 gal cast iron caldrom I use for lead smelting and burn them down with the oxy/acety torch after I've gone through all my soft alloy---if I live long enough.

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boats Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7544 Location: Virginia Joined: Apr 23^rd, 2004	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #21 - Sep 30^th, 2013 at 8:59pm	Print Post
	Good ideas all. I am on the transportation part of the job now. It's a lot of weight more than my utility trailer will handle, 2000 lbs. Think it will have to be cut up in place moved in several pieces. Anybody curious it's a re-sale venture. I only use pre alloyed in my Single Shot rifles. Might be enough profit in it to buy a nice rifle. Or perhaps not. Boats


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John Boy Ex Member	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #22 - Sep 30^th, 2013 at 9:08pm	Print Post
	Quote: Anybody curious it's a re-sale venture. Boats, put a post in the Classifieds on Cast Boolits. If you unloaded it all, your in the neighborhood of 5 grand. Harry Pope would be honored for you to own one of his rifles!


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boats Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7544 Location: Virginia Joined: Apr 23^rd, 2004	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #23 - Sep 30^th, 2013 at 10:04pm	Print Post
	Dollar a pound is about the scrap yard sell price. They try to buy lower, much lower. Cost is in the labor and transportation which could well be a dollar a pound. Will keep you guys posted Boats


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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #24 - Sep 30^th, 2013 at 11:12pm	Print Post
	Boats go for it, it would have to be sold pretty much locally as the shipping is a killer. When I picked up my 1000lbs. I calculated that it would last until I was 74, missed it by 12 years. I tend to shoot allot and when I was playing with my Darr Laudensauk HiWall Schuetzen rifle in 405 Win. the pile went down fast. Shot it for a little over a year and wow that rifle would just plan shoot and I would pay the price after a match as the Schuetzen butt plate was a real bruise builder. With all the talk about out lawing lead I would stash it away along with some tin should a hoarding session with pre-mixed alloy take place. You could sell off enough to pay for the tin and lead investment. I would ask for more than a buck a pound the current going rate at RotoMetals is a tad over two and a buck and a half would be a real fair price. JLouis

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Mick B Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1004 Location: 19 Ian Nicol St watson ACT aus Joined: Apr 11^th, 2013	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #25 - Oct 1^st, 2013 at 9:07am	Print Post
	Why not make a simple bullet trap behind your target and recover all your fired bullets. I made a simple trap from a 20 litre paint drum which came with a lid that was clamped on. The drum was filled with DRY sand and a piece of inner tube from a truck tyre was clamped over the open end of the drum to keep the sand in. Bullets passing through the rubber only make a tiny hole ( 45 cal 540 gr ) Warning, don't use damp compacted sand as the bullets leave a hole in the damp sand and the next shot gets a clear run to the bottom of the drum and that's the end of that. After a few hundred shots remove the rubber and pour the sand through a garden sieve to recover your lead, In one clever stroke you've saved the planet, and your lead. Downside ?, lugging the drum full of sand to the target line. Mike


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Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3877 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #26 - Oct 1^st, 2013 at 12:39pm	Print Post
	You need to host a cast-bullet lumber jack contest with two man saws and axes. )

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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #27 - Oct 1^st, 2013 at 2:12pm	Print Post
	Boats what are the chances of the lead being contaminated with sea salt, if so would it flux out or be of any concern to put down one's barrel. The school district I worked for purchased several re-locatable class rooms, the logs for the wood siding were floated down the coast line to the mill and all of the fasteners / nails were gone in very short order. JLouis

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jlmurphy Participating Member Offline Posts: 32 Location: Fallbrook, Ca. Joined: Oct 22^nd, 2010	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #28 - Oct 1^st, 2013 at 8:20pm	Print Post
	I have cut blocks of lead into smaller pieces with a log splitter.


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texasmac Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1893 Location: Central Texas Joined: Aug 16^th, 2004	Re: BIG Block of Lead Reply #29 - Oct 2^nd, 2013 at 1:10am	Print Post
	I have not tried it but understand a Skill saw will cut lead blocks and not "gum up" if the blade is reversed. Wayne

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