Cincinnati No. 4 vertical available

Cross post from the Heavy Iron forum:
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/showthread.php?t=174294

We have a Cincinnati No. 4 vertical that has a bad clutch and needs a new home. A $100 donation to our organization (www.msrlha.org) will make it yours. More details are in the link above.
Thanks,
Andy

Adopted yet?

Hi Andy,

Just wondering if the mill found a home yet? Yes, I'm thinking and no, completely too big, too far, ad naseum........but I'm a complete whack-job and can't stop thinking about it anyway.

Best,
Jim

There may be someone coming to take parts off of it.
Andy

Hey Andy:

If you and Mr Smith can confer and figure out an economical way to load that thing on a truck it would be better than parting it out.
If its parted out you guys still have to drag the carcass out of the building and your location Cass, WV looks like its 150 miles from anything so a scrapper is not gonna come get it with scrap iron at 1 to 4 cents a pound.
You guys would have to dig a hole and shove it in or drag it out in the woods and leave it.
If you come up with anything let me know. Dave

Hi Dave, and anyone else interested,
Elkins Iron & Metal here in Elkins is 50 miles from Cass, and keeps a scrap bin down there. They are paying .05 right now. They would probably come get it. Either that or it will sit out in the woods, with all the other miscellaneous junk, until Cass Scenic RR decides to do a cleanup. It would be nice to keep it whole, but the logistics are difficult.
If you were to hire a wrecker or similar to move the mill from our shop to the main Cass shop, it could be loaded on a truck using their bridge crane. Careful measurements would have to be taken, to make sure the machine and trailer would fit out through the door once loaded (that was a problem when we unloaded it a few years ago). All of this would have to happen on one of the weekends we are there working.
As of now, the mill is blocked in by a tank car, and that won't be moved for at least a month. Small parts could come out around it, but the whole mill won't fit. An engine hoist and a small forklift are available for pulling heavy parts off.
If you do want to come up on a weekend that we are there, you can stay with us in the old company house we stay in while we're there and save a motel bill.
Andy