Hazell B
9th July 2008, 21:26
About time, I hear some of you say :p :
Actually I'm not liking the female touch, but I needed to get your attention somehow. I am instead admitting to being utter rubbish at internet searches and frankly I need your collective help.
Few weeks ago I bought a large cast iron horse stall trough and hay rack and now I need to know what they're going for on the open market and how much cast goes for as scrap.
First the scrap value - I paid £40 plus VAT and buyers premium at auction (£51 in all) for approx 75kg of painted, rust-free cast iron. What's it worth? The scrap man stopped bidding against me at the auction when my mate Mark (over 6 foot, about 18 stone, woolly hat wearing) growled at him, so I know scrap value is above £45.
Secondly, can anyone find a cast iron stall trough for sale on the net? I can't, though I know they are out there.
It's about 70 inches long, has a rolled front edge and two removable horse feeders set in to the top surface. One's an oval bowl trough, one a large hay rack. It all fixes together with bolts and is about early Victorianish (it's original) with the original hole to tether the stalled horse.
In their day they were instruments of torture, as horses spent all their life tied to them going slowly mad, but now they are highly prized salvage. I've been after one of years, but was always outbid. This one was a case of right item in the wrong sale, so nobody really knew what it was.
Please, please help. Having gotten the damned thing, I'm now wondering if it's safe from the light-fingered even after I've bolted it to a specially built wall on my yard, so am considering selling again rather than just lose it to thieves :(
Actually I'm not liking the female touch, but I needed to get your attention somehow. I am instead admitting to being utter rubbish at internet searches and frankly I need your collective help.
Few weeks ago I bought a large cast iron horse stall trough and hay rack and now I need to know what they're going for on the open market and how much cast goes for as scrap.
First the scrap value - I paid £40 plus VAT and buyers premium at auction (£51 in all) for approx 75kg of painted, rust-free cast iron. What's it worth? The scrap man stopped bidding against me at the auction when my mate Mark (over 6 foot, about 18 stone, woolly hat wearing) growled at him, so I know scrap value is above £45.
Secondly, can anyone find a cast iron stall trough for sale on the net? I can't, though I know they are out there.
It's about 70 inches long, has a rolled front edge and two removable horse feeders set in to the top surface. One's an oval bowl trough, one a large hay rack. It all fixes together with bolts and is about early Victorianish (it's original) with the original hole to tether the stalled horse.
In their day they were instruments of torture, as horses spent all their life tied to them going slowly mad, but now they are highly prized salvage. I've been after one of years, but was always outbid. This one was a case of right item in the wrong sale, so nobody really knew what it was.
Please, please help. Having gotten the damned thing, I'm now wondering if it's safe from the light-fingered even after I've bolted it to a specially built wall on my yard, so am considering selling again rather than just lose it to thieves :(