Utah man spent $300k on a crane hoping it’d work, but guess what?

This man spent a fortune on a crane that had been sitting unused for years.

He was half hoping it would work and half expecting to sell it for scrap.

Scrapping it would be no small feat: the crane was 20 feet wide and 18 feet tall.

But the crew ended up getting much more than they bargained for on this crane buying trip.

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Good to go or good for scraps?

Dave from HeavyDSparks has a habit of buying vehicles before he knows what he’ll do with them

In this case, he and his team paid $300,000 for a package, which included a massive blue crane.

His motto is that either way, things usually work out.

“If it works, I got a real good deal on it, and if it doesn’t then it’s worth its weight in scrap,” he says.

It’s not unheard of to strike gold at the scrapyard, like when the actual General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard was found in one in Georgia.

Or the scrapped Dodge Charger Daytona EV that only had 682 miles on it.

Dave wasn’t holding his breath for this crane to become his next workhorse it’d been sitting unused for years.

And it only took a brief assessment to realize that this crane’s fate was sealed.

Scrapping the 18-foot crane

This crane wasn’t your typical model, like the one you might use to dangle a Cybertruck over a pool or lift your Pagani Zonda Revolucion into your condo with, say.

No, this was more of a rust bucket, once used to transport massive sheets of steel.

At 20 feet wide, 18 feet tall, and 17 feet long, it wasn’t going anywhere easily.

To use it elsewhere, the crane would have to be carefully disassembled, transported, reassembled, and fixed up.

For Dave that simply wasn’t worth it.

The team got to work quickly, cutting it up there and then for the scrapyard.

What was once a magnificent, monstrous piece of machinery was now a pile of steel beams.

And with each worth between $5,000 and $10,000, Dave definitely made the right call.

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