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    post a picture of your load

    i dont believe theres a thread like this on here, always wanted to see one, soooo post a picture of your loads. hopefully we can make this an ongoing thread if others participate

    50/50 with my buddy who found the metal
    heavy ss box in the back!


    light steel building materials and some weird dental eqipment


    found these and had them sold for $40 before i even had a chance to unload my truck


    2nd load i got from an old neighbor. rain cover

    an old kawaski minus the front end, sold it for 140
    motorcycle jack sold for 50
    and the shed is up on cl for 40 as well

    stoked on my new slats, in fact i just painted them last night!
    bunch of super greasy cooking stuff from neighbors up the street




    friend drove my truck to work, came back with 700lbs of hms for me, then my roomie needed a bunch of stuff moved to storage unit bout 500ft from the yard, so we put my slats up, dropped my tailgate and took two loads, he hung out with me in line for a bit then rode the bike home. i did a lil street bmxing while waiting in the long ass scrap line myself, ha



    right after i head over to my friend's work where he had some pallets for me (first time selling pallets) drove them down the road to pallet city. then i went across the street to my friends house, and guess what I see, a sweet table and chair that goes straight to my living room!


    I come back to visit her the next day and out front is a bunch of two-tier racking and 25 display bikeracks it is pretty dense steel, also a bunch of cookwear and about 200 shotglasses, ha! I met the people curbing the stuff, and its a bikeshop going out of buisness. i really wish that girl hadnt taken off for the next two weeks cuase then id be driving there everyday
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    collecting san joses scrap

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    Cool pictures!

    An I forgot everything you listed once you said "200 shotglasses"



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    Quote Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot View Post
    Cool pictures!

    An I forgot everything you listed once you said "200 shotglasses"



    Sirscrapalot - Shots on Blue!
    "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"

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    My thread, it has all of my load pictures.
    Made in China, Recycled in the Republic of Texas!

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    back when i had a job cleaning a building renovation





    pole rack has been utilized on numerous occasions, lol


    but then on my way home i found a curbed fridge and had to rearrange.
    i still remember the song that came on the radio while loading that
    IM THE SCRAP MAN
    IM THE SCRAP MAN
    DIGGING THROUGH YOUR GARBAGE CAN♫
    $100 bucks to a neighbor down the street!

    I sure got a lot of good stuff from that job

    some of my first loads


    straight to the shred pile *cringe*

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    33% more hauling capacity!





    had that table on cl for like fifty down to fifteen bucks forevvvveeerrr, i felt shame scrapping it

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    not a scrap load but sure packed in nice.

    and another nice load

    and another!!

    AND ANOTHA!!!



    trip to go ride & party in reno, no pic but theres no can/bottle cash refund so i came back with a bed staaaacked with beercans which paid for the whole trip!
    used the bikes as highwalls

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    lol, it looks like your truck is part of that weiner vehicle
    Scrapper, Scrap Yard Worker, Horse farm worker, Cooler Puller and just plain ''tired''

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    Not really pictures of a load, but pictures of my first big score. The amount is just about the same every 6 months from here.

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    Illegal dump?

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    No. Township about 45 minutes away does a spring and fall cleanup. I have to go pick up what comes in.

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    You didnt scrap that little trailer in pic 4 did you?
    If I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all...

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    You are going to get me started....



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    Cummins,

    What's the story behind the great gezzus tapered roller bearings in your truck on the 9th photo down? It looks like you are getting into some industrial-weight scrap!!

    Resourceful,

    Were you able to sell that long chunk of I beam for better than scrap?

    Good looking loads!!!

    Jon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sawmilleng View Post
    Cummins,

    What's the story behind the great gezzus tapered roller bearings in your truck on the 9th photo down? It looks like you are getting into some industrial-weight scrap!!

    Resourceful,

    Were you able to sell that long chunk of I beam for better than scrap?

    Good looking loads!!!

    Jon.
    that little trailer was scraped jord the thing was like 2ft wide, two small and waste time to have to pull all the rear ends of it then it was to drve it to the scrap yard. it was friday of a long weekend and the other yards were closed and i need my trailer empty to head up north so i ened up going to smaller scrap yard in pefferlaw and he deducted like 200lbs because of the plywood....guy knows how to make money. lol

    and that was a bearing from a wheel loader i think. came from a machine shop that works on alot of cat equipment. that was when my transmission was blown and had to hire a friend and his truck. i was stupid busy last spring.

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    Yes that is the reason we cut it so long, we sold it for way more than scrap.

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    What motor does that ranger have ? Nice pics by all. Can view pics of many of mine.
    http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/day-l...thread-15.html








    Sold this one the, for 600$, the next day after someone seen it on My trailer at work .

    Alvord iron and salvage
    3rd generation scrapper and dam proud of it

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    Tater, in your last photo with the railcar steel: The buildings in the background look like something out of Afganistan....what the heck were they used for?

    All interesting photos!

    Jon.

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    Thats what happens when you live in the sticks, everything looks like Afghanistan ! Pic was taken by a old down town out here in Kansas.

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