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Message: [QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 3219350, member: 668"] So, I went back through this thread a bit to revisit some of the excellent pics that Bees has taken, and after viewing pic (Bees' post; #837) in particular, it's quite likely that your messenger indeed is speaking truth. Again, without knowing those box girder's true dimensions, it's difficult to assess, but those things are huge (at least in that pic when looking at it resting on the ground near the workers). From those pics, it looks like a more proper estimation would be considering steel's weight per cubic yard vs. per cubic foot. With general steel's weight at approx. 13,321 lbs/yd3 vs. the 490 lbs/ft3. So if that section (which looks greater than 1 yd/3ft in height) was a true cubic yard dimension...at 9' in length it would be approx. 40,000 lbs. [/QUOTE]