Free Pipe

[SmokinEdge]

Stopped by there first thing this morning to make sure it was still there and head to the BLM office for a visit with a manager. But the pipe is gone. My guess is the rancher I talked to shined me because he wanted it himself. Wish people could just be honest about stuff. I’m happy if they were in need of it and would have gladly let them have anyway. Oh well.

 

[SmokinEdge]

Looks like the kind of pipe we use in the drilling industry for conductor install prior to spud. Nice find. Many a cooker have been build from these.

You will only be limited by your imagination! Congrats on the find.

This was a 1000 gal. Fuel tank with ends cut off. But yes endless possibilities. Maybe next time.

 

[DougE]

Stopped by there first thing this morning to make sure it was still there and head to the BLM office for a visit with a manager. But the pipe is gone. My guess is the rancher I talked to shined me because he wanted it himself. Wish people could just be honest about stuff. I’m happy if they were in need of it and would have gladly let them have anyway. Oh well.

Likely he was just getting things lined up to move it himself. Been great if he just said that he needed it for a culvert pipe and couldn't cough the money for new pipe. I would have let him have it and maybe even moved it for him for free if he was up front about it.

 

[SmokinEdge]

Likely he was just getting things lined up to move it himself. Been great if he just said that he needed it for a culvert pipe and couldn't cough the money for new pipe. I would have let him have it and maybe even moved it for him for free if he was up front about it.

That’s me. What’s with these people today? Zero honesty. That’s what’s sad. In the rural hood, neighbors are everything. We lean on each other for a host of things and we all help one another. Some years you wouldn’t or couldn’t harvest your crop with out some neighbors help. And you do your best to pay that back. But lying is one of the things I just can not over look. Be honest and I can work with that. Lie and it becomes impossible. No content in some folks character these days. Oh well.

 

[Brokenhandle]

That neighbor is a dick! Sorry, I'm old fashioned and still believe a handshake should be good enough... I know it's not but still

Ryan

 

[SmokinEdge]

That neighbor is a dick! Sorry, I'm old fashioned and still believe a handshake should be good enough... I know it's not but still

Ryan

I agree Ryan. You know how the rural works. Or used to.

 

[DougE]

That neighbor is a dick! Sorry, I'm old fashioned and still believe a handshake should be good enough... I know it's not but still

Ryan

I agree Ryan. You know how the rural works. Or used to.

Still mostly works that way around here, but as you get more and more city folk moving in, they bring their ways along with them.

 

[choochooman442]

I have a big oxy/acetylene setup. I've also been eyeing up plasma cutters, but you need really dry air to run them. The humidity stays pretty high around here so drying the air is the main hurdle for me.

I also do a lot more cutting with the angle grinder and a cutoff wheel than torches, when possible, these days. Less cleanup and warping.

I bought a Hypertherm Powermax 45 8 years ago and have never used my gas axe since. I only have a 5 gallon compressor but have cut 1' steel with it. Air and Electricity!

 

[choochooman442]

Where we live we have 100’s of thousands of acres of public lands, state wide I think there are more public acres than private. Anyway these lands go from low foothills to mountain tops. But the lower “adobe” public ground get all kinds of people who think that it is their private dumping grounds. They dump everything from tree trimmings to concrete steps, old televisions or refrigerators all appliances actually. It’s a constant clean up by the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) people go out to these places to shoot and they have no lack in targets, lol. It’s sad, especially since our landfill is not expensive at all and is a short drive…..


At any rate I cruse these locations and pick up brass for reloading so I’m around often. Couple days ago I found an old fuel tank someone dumped. It’s 12’ long, 40” in diameter and at least 3/16” thick but might be 1/4”. Ends have been cut off so it just a big piece of pipe. I’m going tomorrow morning with the backhoe and forks to pick it up and bring it home, help clean the public grounds and give me free steel to build a couple smokers, big smokers, lol.

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I’m thinking a vertical wood/charcoal smoker and possibly a whole hog cooker. What the heck, the main body is free.

Looks like it was a 1000 gallon propane tank, the missing hemispherical ends make excellent fire pits.

 

[DougE]

I bought a Hypertherm Powermax 45 8 years ago and have never used my gas axe since. I only have a 5 gallon compressor but have cut 1' steel with it. Air and Electricity!

I have plenty of air to run plasma. Issue I have is out humidity level around here makes for a fair amount of moisture in the air. Current humidity level is around 90%.

 

[SmokinEdge]

I have a big plasma from the farm but don’t or haven’t made up a 220v plug yet. Much prefer it over the liquid axe but just not set up just yet.

 

[Winterrider]

You know that rancher just took that up the road and installed it as a culvert SURE . . . sounds like a real tool !