>>1373450>scrap iron is ~$0.05/lb a fire hydrant weighs 300-500 pounds. Obviously if you can sell above scrap you can get more.So that's $25 on the outside for a fair amount of effort - not including moving it - and the whole time you're doing it you're exposed (read: easily caught). $25 worth of crack aint lasting ten min. Literally. By this posit, there wouldn't be any fire hydrants, anywhere. The only thing you have more of than crackheads is smackheads, even if most o them is on the pharmacorp variety. And doesn't cover where they *could* sell them. Especially at that scale. Compare to just picking up $150 of versace shirt than can be easily resold for $50. Slightly less risk, as there's less time exposed, higher return, and a shit-tonne less effort.
>A fire hydrant costs the municipality $3000-7000 plus another thousand to install plus hundreds of thousands to lay the water pipe.So... you're measuring 'millions worth of fire hydrants' as the cost of the hydrant and the cost of install... When municipalities buy these things, they don't tend to buy them in 1's. The scale of the purchase gets the installed cost closer to 3k than 7, but it does depend on a lot of factors: precisely where, what type of hydrant, etc. With those sorts of numbers, you'll cram about 500 fire hydrants into one million dollah.
Apprently it averages about 1-3 fire hydrants per 1000 residents in a built up area, and an average spacing of ~300ft. Meaning about 3,246 acres - or 141,371,500 square feet absented hydrant.
Those missing hydrants, stacked in a pile, would consume approximately 3,141.6 cubic feet of volume. Slightly noticable. Even as multiple smaller piles. And again, there isn't many places you'll be able to offload these.
And that's only 1million worth. To get 'millions' you can scale that 1 easily to get how many 'millions' you had in your head. That pile of hydrants look right to you?
