Okay, I bounced this off Ol' Joe, and his trailer wasn't up to it...

I have some really good fabrication material in Santa Rosa, NM for someone who's able to appear on Friday morning with about a 16-20ft trailer.

We had a sign get hit there... bent one of the poles, twisted the sign, so it's no longer usable...

But there's two 8" square tube poles 1/4 or 5/16" thick 16ft long with 24" square baseplates 1" thick, and a 5x20ft overhead sign with two steel spars of either 3" or 4" square x 5ft tall, two spreaders 1" square inside, and about 200lbs of extruded aluminum all free for the taking, provided you can be there with a trailer (or long truck) that my crane can set it on.

Poles are 400lbs each.  Sign cabinet is 400lbs...

If you have a project that needs materials... especially something like... an overhead gantry for working on tractors...   this is a BIG piece of the solution.

so,, this jus stuff for the taking? or need it stored awhile?

theres a storm coming through here this evening and tonight,, supposed to dump a lot of snow,, so traveling might get difficult..

get loaded up and you'll have GREAT weight for the ride home !!!

cut 2 posts to get 4 , 8 footers.......

 Gosh Michael,,,I MUST be getting old

 Ole Dave asked me if I knew any members might be interested in that metal and I drew a blank,,,,  Sorry,,,!!

 I' da liked to have it but the two back tires on my trailer are balder than ole Shameless,,,,

Hi Guys!

Well, my crew got off to a rocky start at first... storm made a mess of the roads, and then my guy had a heckuva time getting the fasteners loose at the base (16 2-5/16" nuts on well-painted studs, right?)  Normally my crews travel in a big straight truck well-equipped with torch, welder/gen, a bucket that'll reach to 26ft...  but today, they were in a pickup truck with whatever tools they could put in the back.  They were enroute from Phoenix back to our main office to get their new truck fitted up... and stopped in S.R. to facilitate this replacement...

Joe and Mike couldn't get there, and that's understandable, the timing and conditions were really bad.

I DID wind up finding a guy in town that had a truck with a torch that could get some serious heat on the hardware, which burned the paint off right quick, then the crane lifted the old one off, they assembled and stood the new one.  Local guy had good place for the remains of the old one, it'll become something good... and he even had use for the plywood and lumber crate from the new sign.

And that's the way things go.  We have lots of signs that get hit, and when we take 'em down, we frequently end up paying sign companies to remove and dispose, which means they pile 'em on a trailer, and either drive to a scrapyard and collect-by-the-pound, or keep, cut up, and build something from the remains to sell to other customers.

I'd rather put them in the hands of people who can do what Jay said-  build something special... something good... something useful and durable.  With 8" square steel posts, it's gonna be durable, right?

Jay- next time I have one get hit up on your side of the Poutine Curtain, I'm sending YOU... cuz' I know you know the right guy...