NHS, that was my Grandfather to a T. My Grandmother kept the house and the front yard clean as a whistle. Everything not visible from the road was fair game for junk though.
He had 508 cars, 23 semis, 56 pieces of various heavy equipment (not including farm equipment), 48 tractors, god knows how many attachments for various vehicles, equipment, and tractors, 47 trailers from Semi trailers, to dump, trailers, to welding trailers, to car trailers, 39 oil/gas tanks to mount on stands, and piles and piles of appliances and other various things for shred.
When he died, I had some of my workers go scrap everything in the scrap/shred piles. I scrapped all of the vehicles newer than 1990 that weren't pickups or semis and the rest I go through personally when I have time and decide on what to do with it. I've fixed 30 of probably 320 cars left and sold them. I've made 4 pickups into trailers. I sold 5 semis for scrap and i'm parting out 15. 3 are in use at my company. All salvageable/working trailers have been kept. 7 were scrapped. 40 pieces of heavy equipment were scrapped and 6 are being parted out. The rest are either in use at my house or my company. 20 tractors were scrapped, 20 were sold to a local diesel mechanic and 2 work. 7 are awaiting my attention. All usable tanks were kept but, about 12 were scrapped.
I have miles and miles of all gauges of wire and more tools than I could ever need.
I've kept everything with a definite purpose and recycled everything that definitely could never be used again. All junk that was not metal went into a burn pile the size of ranch house which was burnt off 8 or 9 times and hazardous material went into a roll off container which was filled thrice.
The money from the scrap went to building a very nice shop on a piece of property he had already owned across the road from my house and the lack of junk in the yard made for a very happy grandmother. She didn't want any of the money because as you've probably already guessed my grandfather was a rich man. He grew up poor with dirt floors in a single room house and as a result he kept everything. He owned a nursery with 25 greenhouses, four automotive shops, five gas stations, a paving and grading business, he taught Soil Science at NCSU for 30 years and wrote quite a few books which my grandmother now receives royalties from.
He died last year in October at 81. He was a great man and the definition of the American dream
- Have You Ever Been To A Hoarders House?
) The place wasn't cluttered up like you see on the TV show but everything was old and dirty. I have never rushed out of someone's house like that before! I usually make a little small talk and try to mention other items I take but this time I couldn't have cared less if she had a basement full of 486s! Didn't leave a card, just got outta Dodge!
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Originally Posted by NJSouth
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