What's your coolest find in the scrap yard

same here jimicrk, the yards don't allow browsing. In fact, my goal is to get out of the steel yard place as fast as possible. It started as as a needed survival trait in their old, cramped, too congested yard. Their new second yard is a breeze but I still don't linger.



I asked my non-ferrous guy what were the coolest or most unusual things they had come across (I think I've mentioned this before). One was the aluminum wing off of Boening-727 that was lost when the plane landed here in a snow storm and hit an airport snowplow out on the runway, killing the driver. Their place ended up with the removed torn up wing. It ended up being a harder nut for them to crack when they started to break it up into smaller pieces.

The other super cool thing they got was the big brass bow "seal" of the pre-WWI "U.S.S. South Dakota" battle cruiser. The thing weighed about 400 pounds. They had it off in a corner of their office for a long time. Later they got a call from the U.S. Navy museum wondering if they could have it for their collection. It seems that it was the last existing piece like that off of that class of U.S. warships. I think the owner of the non-ferrous place was pretty proud that it ended up in a national museum.