On 2012-01-30, PrecisionmachinisT wrote:

"Steve W." wrote in message
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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.


Pretty sure 25 years ago recyclers were buying scrap steel at around $50 /
ton



What what was $50 worth then? Same as $280/ton now...