The recent prices of scrap has prompted bottom feeders in particular to
round up anything of any kind of metal for the scrap yards. I live in a
rural area with a town of 5,000 people and the rest of the area farms
and suchlike. Our local yard was taking anything on the trailer or P/U
bed, but stuff like cars and farm implements were being snatched off
other peoples land and sold for scrap. After you run out of your own
stuff to sell, scum-bags just look for anything sitting around with the
owner not around. We had one clown bring in a running motor home that
he stole out of someone's pasture. Now the yard photo copies your
license for any payment over $50.00.
I have noticed that the yard is now setting any cars/trucks aside and
NOT scrapping them. So much is coming in that they can't keep up with
the flow, so they don't need to scrap the old cars right away. They now
have a nice collection of old cars in various states of repair or
demise. They are also saving usable metal such as shaped steel, plates
of various sizes, roofing tin, siding and much more.
The point of all this is look up your local scrap yards and ask if they
save anything and if you can walk around and find anything usable to
you. We have a plant here which cuts shapes out of flat steel and what
ever they don't use they send over for scrap. I've found 1/8" to 1/2"
flat steel plates up to 12" X 18" laying on the ground. They charge a
few $ a pound and that's cheep and easy just to stock up the shop.
Ray in Mena
On Jul 15, 2008, at 12:34 AM, Bill K. wrote:
Found a guy on the HAMB board who has a '59 Dodge of unknown model or
bodystyle he was parting out. As usual, another lazy clown who makes
no effort to find people who want pieces from the car, I happened on it
because he wanted to know how to scrap the car without a title and
commented that no one wanted solid panels from it. Must be located in
California, out there you need a title to junk a car.
If anyone's interested I can pass it on or give you the contact
information.
Been a lot of debate on there lately about people junking good stuff
and I'm just ticked off in general because guys will complain they
can't sell stuff when they either don't advertise it, or advertise it
poorly, or be like one clown on there and never answer the phone when
they claim they'll be home - I actually had one local guy bone me on a
car, he sold it to some scrap guy who walked up - while I was
repeatedly trying to call him and leaving messages, when I said I was
going to. Another guy on there was going on how he saved this batch of
cars from scrap, but that they were too rough to build so he was
parting them out - cars up rolling on 4 wheels with paint left - and
desirable body styles - and this (expletive) takes like half a dozen
parts off and scraps them - what did he save exactly? The last car I
scrapped was a bare shell that I even lopped the roof skin off from,
that the frame was falling off from the bottom in pieces. And that was
after trying to sell it whole for 2 years. Some people are just so
unbelievably stupid and lazy it confounds comprehending.
Bill K.
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