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I am VERY new to the scrapping world. I may be getting a garbage truck that, to my knowledge, would not be worth repairing to me. I have tried doing some research about scrap rates and vehicles and so far not finding very useful info. Are there any scrap yards in Chicago that would accept a garbage truck by weight? Also what an average weight rate might be for something like this? Any advice?
I may be getting a battleship, and was wondering much the same thing :)
Actually, I'd think, if it isn't worth fixing, it might not be a bad idea to send it first to a wrecking yard, and let them strip parts off of it for awhile. You might get a bit better than just scrap iron price that way?
Oh the tears I shed just seeing a link to a thread on breaking down a beer truck. ;(
No tears for battleships tho..unless it's carrying whiskey, or some other equally awesome beverage. :p
Sirscrapalot - Finds broken beer trucks to be a tearjerker.
Get on the phone and call around to some yards. Try calling the bigger yards, smaller yards would not be able to handle big trucks like that. My .02
Okay here's what I don't get... You have a device made for compacting it's load and then hauling it, and you're wanting to scrap it? That's like a scrappers dream. I mean at the very least, either the compactor or truck, one of the two has to be reusable I'm sure.
Usually these are part of a fleet, once they get replaced they turn into donor trucks and by the time they get their parts robbed there wouldn't be a whole lot left but a lot of steel. ive got a deal going now with a fleet of 70+(I was initially told 40) dodge 3500/2500 passenger vans and I got three of their donors in the last few weeks, I talked to the mechanic in charge and said between the three vans you couldn't make one good oneQuote:
Originally Posted by TheFatMan
Last year I cut up an old garbage truck that had been sitting for 20 years, if I find my receipts I'll give you a breakdown. It was a HEIL rear-loader that was rotted out on a Chevy C-6500 single-axle.
ASSETS
-The body of the box went as #2 steel (18'' x 3' x appx 1/8" thick).
-The packer, hydraulic cylinders, frame, transmission (drained), rear end/axles/wheel hubs got cut into #1 Steel (18"x 5' x >1/4" thick)- "Five foot plate" as my yard calls it.
-I rolled the cab off (750 lbs, glad I'm not a little guy, I did it by hand :-P) and took it to the yard that crushes cars with all the other crap that was mixed or too thin for #2
-Motor got taken apart for motor cast.
LIABILITIES
-Disposal of tires
-Hydraulic fluid, motor oil, transmission grease, rear end grease (plan for 30-50 gallons in all, depending on the truck).
-Fiberglass hood
-Cutting gasses
It was worth it though, especially considering it was my first big truck to cut up, I got it all figured out on that one. The same people had me cut up an old water truck after that and it took 1/4 the time for 1/2 the value. :-D
As far as using an old truck there are MYRIADS of things that are or can be wrong on those old garbage trucks, the primary issues are the floor/frame of the box rotting out, the hydraulic system being destroyed, and the clutch/transmission being ground to nothing (the one I took apart had most of the teeth in the reverse gears gone). My Dad bought an old rear-loader as a spare for his Garbage route, got it for $8k and had to dump another $6k into it just to make it mostly reliable and DOT legal.