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On Jan 29, 10:08*pm, "Steve W." wrote:
David Lesher wrote:
In another place I hang out, we're discussing a tower that was
toppled by a tornado 25 years ago. Seeing as how this was a
327 ft tower, weighing ~135 tons, that's a lot of bent steel.


But the story is, it was not sellable as scrap because it was
galvanized. *They ended up burying it on-site!


You guys know lots more about steel than I do, so why is it you
can't reuse galvanized steel?


25 years ago it was probably not worth enough to cut it up and transport
it.

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Steve W.


Yep...and likely well worth digging up now and reselling.

TMT