Scrap yard find of the week.

[D7E]

The big public shredder wont resell anything to the public. I had one manger that handled my aluminum scrap. He would let me buy alot but hes at another outfit now. I jut started carring the company scrap we haul to the local industrial place and we work together on the scrap.

I may be picking up a MF 50 fork lift this weekend. It has a dead cylinder on the little Perkins. I think its abad injector.

Thats a pity our local one is great they just weigh you out !

 

[pete59]

The top picture is when I bought the home made tractor and the second picture is after we put one of our Grove Gear boxes on. It is more efficient with this gear box than it was with the other transmission. The last picture in the transmission that was on there. It was a Tenual from Cleveland. Transmission is 3 speed GM, as is the rear end. It will pull a full load just about idling at 5 mph with me on it. The last picture is my boys having with with the original tractor.

 

[nnaatz]

yep.... i paid money for it!!!! bought it last fall. it steers with brakes, gots a nissian motor with a 4 or 5 speed coupled to a 3 speed reduced and chain driven to a pair of shortened dana 41 axles and theres a bucket tooooo...

 

[petes]

Well I have been at the yard again, actually paying the power bill I looked across the power co lot and saw a Raymond reach swing lift. They hauled it in and I bought a nice set of 42 inch forks, the roller stator steering motor, and a Helac hydraulic rotating joint. I was trying for another motor that offsets it but it was gonna be too hard to pull. I got the 3 other items for 70 dollars. A friend stopped me and asked about the forks so I sold them to him for 125 dollars. I was really after the Helac joint. Its not quite the one I wanted or needed for the tilt bucket I want to build but for 10 bucks I cant complain and I can make it work. THe motor I found will probably go on the circle mill carriage Im about to rebuild.

Still alot of good parts on the lift but its just too much to take apar now got alot of 48 Volt motors and pump driver and new hoses.
Technology Sliding Spline Demo - Hydraulic Rotary Actuators | Helac

That brought back some memories... Just out of highschool I worked for Helac as "low man on the totem pole" in the Engineering department as a drawing-refiler/draftsman/truckdriver and parts--deburrer-when-someone-on-the-line-called-in-sick. Great design for low backlash, high torque rotary acutators. The rows of helical gearcutters running all the time in the shop were fascinating to watch on my way through. That was back in 1989-ish. I hope you like it!

 

[D7E]

yep.... i paid money for it!!!! bought it last fall. it steers with brakes, gots a nissian motor with a 4 or 5 speed coupled to a 3 speed reduced and chain driven to a pair of shortened dana 41 axles and theres a bucket tooooo...

Now that is a strange animal ...interesting !

 

[Taylortractornut]

NNaatz there used to be a hand on here that went by the name of Nobull that had a differential skid steer like that. I have a freind that did the same thing made a rear engined rig with 2 rear ends on it and a chain drive. to them. He skidded logs and stayed in the swampwith it alot. It steered fast to.

THats a neat unit.

 

[GrizzyDan]

That skid-steer looks like a lot of fun!

 

[Sledge740]

I hauled an old car to the local crusher yard to get a few bucks. Right inside the gate was a 8N hood with the grill and fuel tank. I asked the manager what he would take for the hood. He said he didn't sell stuff because if he let one person buy stuff he would be over run with pickers. I offered to trade my 3000 pound car for it and he still said no. I'm looking for a better place to sell my scrap metal.

 

[wdchyd]

Sledge,

I had a local town recycling center (where the steel is given to them) say no picking.......off to the side was a pile the town employees scooped up for themselves......

 

[Taylortractornut]

I stooped to a new low this week. I have a friend that is desperately in need of a new turning plow. There was one in the grinder yard and i was up there driving a dump for a freind. I saw a like new Dearborn 2/14 breaking plow the county landfills truck was dumping out. I walked over to one of the employees and told him that plow that was dumped out was stolen off my place this 2 weeks ago. He wrote me a pass I had to pay 25 cents a pound back for it. I know I lied but my friend was tickled. THe landfill actually is taking scrap illegally as MS is a now working face recycling state. Meaning when its dumped out on the face its not supposed to be scavenged.