What I did when I did that quest was drop all of the extra stuff the that side of the bridge, then I crossed the bridge and telegrabbed all of it. When you go back it doesn't matter because if you fall in it just puts you back on the other side.
I would recommend earth's with fog gloves, when going from 23-50, I crafted 7000 ess and made about 1.5 mil. Not sure how it will be now, but most likely will be a profit. It took me about two weeks playing about 30 mins a day, so it shouldn't take to long.
It took me 7000 essence to get from 23 to 50, but that was with earth and i had gloves the whole time. So 5000 should be enough if you have gloves the whole time.
I just mined the iron and superheated while mining. I equipped the fire staff and had rune pic in invent. It made me a profit of about 100gp every iron bar- made me 800k and got me from 43-59 magic, and about 35-44 smith. Not to mention the 40-53 mining.
Exactly, If your willing to spend what I believe cost me about 400k crafting earth runes from 30-50 along with the earth rc gloves from Fog, It will be a very good money-maker in the long run.
Yeah, right now from level 23-50 I'm doing about 7k essences while having the earth gloves, and having the fist of guthix in the middle really helps. But for you I would suggest the air altar since its much faster, and you only need level 10 rc to get air rc gloves.
If you want to make a pker, then I suggest training your mage and range up to about 60, at which point you will be around 40ish combat. On my pker which has 61 range, 59 mage and all other combat stats are 1, it is really easy to make a lot of money.