Scrap Steel

[edski]

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]

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]

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

 

[oliver28472]

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

 

[PineRidge]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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_]

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