The Cookie Jar is Empty...

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by chris vickery

Then there is the same old story; you spot something and know full well that it will die its last years rusting away into the ground...

Chris...
One word says it all...
COMMODITIES...!!
The prices of scrap metal is out of sight..anything metal of any kind that is not nailed down and a lot that is is going to the scrappers..
Old military stuff of any kind,because of it's robust,heavy construction is a prime target..ESPECIALLY armour,artillary and heavy soft skins..
Much of it is going to China and coming backhere as Walmart junk..
It is so bad there are guys saving pre 1981 Canadian nickels and selling them in bulk to buyers in China because they are over 85% nickel..
Old gas furnace scrap prices used to be $15-20..now they are $75-100.00..
Jeez..they are even stealing the copper roofs off the churches up in Q-bec.....OH Crap...Maybe that is why you were making all those trips to Q-bec...
But that is probably over half of your answer..
Did you get in contact with theguy from Temisk with the carrier..
He just posted a week ago that he found a carrier and wants to restore it..Maybe hire yourself out..
Alex