how would you go about cutting up a old boiler?

Question

trying to dispose of old one cant imagine how they got it dwn here to beginwithdo use use a chain cutter or what

Answer 1

In old houses, it was common to pour the basement floor, lower the furnace onto it, and build the rest of the house around it. This is what they did for our old house. It had two basements, each with its own cast-iron behemoth furnace. It took the construction people more than a day and lots of torching with an oxy/aceteline torch to cut the monsters into pieces small enough both to lift and to get through the door and up the stairs. I don't think a sawszall would have enough power to get through a furnace.

Answer 2

The outside of the boiler is just sheetmetal held together with screws. Once you remove the screws and the boiler jacket (outside of boiler), you will see the cast iron sections that the water passes through. There are 2 to 4 long bolts, probably at least 2' long, that hold these sections together. Chances are, the nuts will be rusted to the bolts, so forget about a wrench, just use a sawzall or a hacksaw to cut the bolts and remove them. After the bolts have been removed, you can use a crowbar and a large hammer to separate the boiler sections. This will make it much easier to remove from the house. By the way, being that cast iron boiler sections are flat, they make excellent weights for the beds of pickup trucks for better control when driving in snow. If you or a neighbor own a pickup truck, you might consider saving them for winter use rather than just scrapping them.

Answer 3

If it is a big old cast iron boiler ,It was most likely assembled on site .
More importantly if it is wrapped in asbestos you will need a
licensed contractor to remove & dispose of wrapping .
If the boiler is not wrapped & turns out to be cast iron.
You can try dismantle it by unbolting sections as mentioned.
A more brutal way would to take a sledgehammer to it & remove a piece at a time.
Cover up if you do, cast iron splinters.

Answer 4

What most professionals use is a Sabre or reciprocating saw. You can buy hacksaw blades for it. I would not use a cutting torch unless you are trained to do so.

Answer 5

Use a plasma torch

Answer 6

use a cutting torch ,like they do on construction-oxy/acteylene outfit