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Why are all the new breed of scrappers IDOITS!!!!

J

just another old geezer

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There is a new breed of scrapper out there. The unemployed yuppie with a little pickup and a snowmoble trailer. and they are idoits!!!
I just came from the local scrap yard and do you know what they were cutting up for scrap???. A JD spoker D!!!!. the worker said it had turned over when brought in and only had damage to a rear wheel and axle casting.!!! told me not to look around the yard too much or I might be sick.

Done ranting now
 
I'm sure that if most of us knew what rare stuff went to the scrappers in the WWII scrap drives, we'd be sick, too.

But as my dad told me when, as a teenager, I used to look after old fencerow tractors and trucks: "You can't save ALL the "orphans" out there." Just have to accept that fact and go on.
 
When we were racing stock cars 30 or more years ago, a particular Ford pickup rear end was desirable to build a quick change rear end out of, and at that time went for several hundred dollars.

I ran into one at a scrap yard once, and they priced it at $15. Naturally, I jumped at it. While I was loading it in my pickup, some bonehead asked, "Do you know what that's worth?"

I told him, "Of course I know what it's worth. Just shut the he11 up til I get out of here with it".
 
I have to agree with you, 2 years ago when the price was way up on scrap I seen a cross motor case cut up. it still had a lot of the paint left on it. - mike
 
At the place where I work, a machine building company. We have a couple of barrels of Alum. scrap, not worth much, maybe $50 total. These 1/2 Breed Mexicans come into our place and want it for 1/2 price. ...Hey dumba$$ leave now. These losers look like drug dealers and are very rude. A large piece of black pipe across the head might teach them some manners.
 
It's all about the money. Lots of people are all over me,asking why I don't scrap some of my stuff. I'm only about two miles from the crusher. No way. I know what I've got here. Just last night,my brother said he had to order a new flywheel for his pickup. Said it was almost $600.He said another guy at the auto parts store said he just threw one of those into a car that he took to the crusher. I told him,not to rub it in,but when I needed one for mine a few years ago,I went down back and got one out of another truck. Same thing a few weeks ago when a guy needed some packer wheels for a Brillion 4 inch axle. He'd been looking all over for days. Kept getting the same answer,"I had some,but they layed around here for years,so I scrapped them". Not me,so I could name my own price.
 
Called a old boy advertising to pick up scrap. We had a huge pile of used baler wire plus scrap pies of pipe. He came and I told you take it all or none,He hauled away three car trailer loads. Sure cleaned up the place. Bet he did not get very good wages,
gitrib
 
There is a new breed of scrapper out there. The unemployed yuppie with a little pickup and a snowmoble trailer. and they are idoits!!!

He just missed 2 spaces "I do its"
 
If they are anything like the new scrapers round here there is a good chance they stole it. I'd ask around any one you know in the area who might have such a tractor and tell'm to check the shed!!

Dave
 
I was behind a line of those idiots this past Saturday. Couldn't have been worth the gas to haul the stuff there. I suppose if they just wanted a place to dump the stuff, they got their wish. I was pretty happy with my trip- I had a frame and springs from a GMC box truck, and a Case 6 bottom semi-mount plow that I took all the good parts off of. Scrap was $190/ton, left with $438. I think the crane operator was happy to get ahold of some real iron instead of 20 lbs at a time. There's more I could take, and at these prices it's tempting, but it's hard for me to scrap anything. I guess I'll let my wife do it after I'm gone... hopefully not too soon.
 
We can not compare this scrap drive going on
today to WW2. Today are a large portion of
our iron is going straight to China and Turkey.
In my county in Western New York we have one
of the largest scrapper In the area. He is a
great guy if you want to buy anything in his
yard. He has rented his own railroad siding to
load 8 to 12 railroad cars at a time. This
happens often.
The last time I checked carload price for short
steel it was between $400 and $500 a ton. Looks
like it is heading for $700 like the last time.
 
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