Scrap Steel

edski · May 3, 2005

As we all know the price of steel is way up. A friend needed some beer and cigarette money so I loaded up his truck with some odds and ends out of my feed lot area.

This is a hoot! From the pic you can see that his mud flaps are dragging and leaf springs inverted. I loaded him with a boom pole (far left).

edski · May 3, 2005

Underneath the hay elevator, and silage blower is all kinds of scrap, old dozer tracks, cut pipe, you name it. The load is "secured" with two lenghts of old knotted rope. He actually made to the scrap yard, but never got out of 2nd gear.

Here's another pic.

Bob_Skurka · May 3, 2005

When he got to the scrap yard did he buy a new set of leaf springs for the back of that truck?

oliver28472 · May 3, 2005

Should have saved the blower. They'll make a burn pile go away in a hurry.

PineRidge · May 3, 2005

He wouldn't have made it to the scrap yard around here. The police would have ticketed him for an unsafe load. Another accident looking for a place to happen IMO.

edski · May 3, 2005

Bob,
I don't think that truck has seen a new set of anything.
Not even tags or regisration. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

edski · May 3, 2005

oliver,
Yeah, you noticed the burn pile in the background.
Never thought of turbocharging it.
This is a low tech burn, a quart of diesel and an old tire.

Indydirtfarmer · May 3, 2005

That appears to be a "turn-key scrap pile".... Just drive it in and leave EVERYTHING.....

I rented a farm last week that has TONS of scrap iron to be hauled off. (My arraingment is for 3 years rent-free to clean up the place...) Most is heavy stuff... (1" re-bar pieces 4' to 8' long, sections of wrought iron railing, about 40 pieces of 3"X3"X3/8"X 20' angle iron, ect... The angle iron goes to my shop....) I've got to cut it up and haul it off, OR find someone that'll do it for the material...

edski · May 3, 2005

PineRidge,
No arguement here. I can't believe what people get away with on their way to this yard. I've seen two and tree crushed cars on the back of P/U's and can't believe they can still steer.

I'd like to say I don't approve, which I really don't, but I'm the one who loaded him. Mostly just to see if I could.

I've noticed that the worst looking trucks have Ohio tags. Is it true that you don't need auto insp. in Ohio?

_RaT_ · May 3, 2005

Is that a recent picture? I ask only because nothing has greened up yet.

edski · May 3, 2005

_RaT_,

That picture was taken in February, before I purchased a B7610 TLB. That's the obvious reason I used my old Massey and pig pole (ie. that's the best I had). Even so, it's impressive what you can accomplish w/ just a ~ $100 implement. Great for hanging and dressing deer too. Take them back to a far corner of the farm to work on where my dog (aka "gut pile girl") may not travel. Heck I even used it to load them into the back of my old P/U (w/cab).

Not sure if I would've/ could've loaded (scrap) more or easier w/ the FEL. Combination of babying and just learning the Kubota vs. knowing the Massey well and willing to "push" it a little.

Today, the trees are budding out, the apples, and lilacs are blooming and the grass needs to be mowed again. I bet N. CA has a bit of a head start on us.
Cheers, edski

_RaT_ · May 3, 2005

The cherries are starting to rippen. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

KubotaSteve · May 3, 2005

We took a pile of scrap steel and only got $.20 a pound. For around 1,300 pounds we only got a little over $26. Our main goal was to get rid of an old mortar mixer.
However, the good news is on the way home we stopped at TSC and picked up a post hole digger with a 12" auger. It works like a champ.

PineRidge · May 3, 2005

<font color="blue">I've noticed that the worst looking trucks have Ohio tags. Is it true that you don't need auto insp. in Ohio? </font>

You do need to pass e-check every couple of years which normally weeds a lot of the 100 dollar clunkers out real fast. Really think the road salt that they spread in Ohio is what is responsible for tearing vehicles up before their time. I believe some states just use sand and cinders which is most likely not as toxic to steel.

2nstonge · May 3, 2005

Indy,

I hear ya. I bought my old farm 2 years ago and the previous owner was a pack rat. Why this guy stored all of his metal up in the the 3rd floor of the barn I'll never know; gutters, old iron wood stoves, car doors...someone with a good back carried that crap up 2 flights of stairs. Just last Saturday I finally hauled off the last of it to the transfer station for 'free metal' day. Scrap guys around here still want to charge you (me, anyway) to take this stuff.

-Norm

slowrev · May 3, 2005

Just about done cleaning up the junk on my property I bought 3 years ago. Glad to see it go. Went thru many tanks of OXY cutting the stuff up. My FIL apparently thinks I am nuts and you are not using your land unless you have it covered with junk. Bare land must be a sin /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

AndyM · May 3, 2005

<font color="blue"> You do need to pass e-check every couple of years... </font>

Actually, the Ohio E-check only is needed for residents of the counties in Ohio with the dirtiest air (12 counties I think).

I have a 22 year old van that won't pass E-check, and I have it in someone else's name in another county. Interestingly enough, if I lived on the other side of my street, I would be exempt from the emissions testing!

Because there's no other testing, it's true, Ohio has some of the worst looking, most unsafe cars registered. There's no check if you have brakes or lights or even fenders! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

PineRidge · May 3, 2005

Andy your cars have brakes & lights & even fenders????? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Cripes I really do live in the wrong part of town, those are luxuries where I live. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

SPIKER · May 5, 2005

Brakes? Lights?? FENDERS??? humm I'm usually lucky to even have FLOOR BOARDS & 4 TIRES let alone fenders lights and brakes! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif al least the glass hasn't RUSTED UP yet /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif not true about the inspection though they state does do RANDOM INSPECTIONS which is set up along a medium traveled road and they flag over every so many cars. run em though inspections & give out fix-it-citations which means you have 2 weeks to fix it and show proof to some cop who has to inspect it and sign off it was fixed or else you will get a ticket. this happened to me once, (had several cars at time so parked the one which was broke, & left it next thing I know I was getting a warrent issued and was arrested for not fixing my car... needless to say the ticket and warrent was tossed out as it never stated that it had to be fixed in XX days and inspected at that time, so I parked it drove the other one which I explaned and the judge said why didn't I fill out the form & mail it in & I politely said it wasn't FIXED /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif lol he laughed & dismissed it all & told me to have it done prior to driving it again but I wasn't required to have it inspected...

he was a good fair judge for sure something that is VERY VERY RARE anyplace anymore... that was some 20 years back now I'm sure it would have cost me thousands of $ and time in jail /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif bad court systems for sure.

MarkM