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Been doing some maintenance on the old pickup truck the past week or so. Cleaned and painted my brake drums, flushed fresh antifreeze through the radiator, drained the differential and put in fresh...

Mine was at 200k miles when I got it, and I've hauled ~3000 pounds in it. I regularly pull my 15 foot flatbed with one or two riding mowers on it, and for a V-6 it does really well to have that much...

The engine looked like it could have been restored, but we literally cut the frame in two with a hand-held hacksaw, I pulled the sides of the bed off by hand, etc. The cab looked mostly fine, and...

Found the perfect vehicle for scrapping, lol.

Big blue beast

I could take you to 3 right now that wouldn't cost you a dime to purchase. The problem is getting to them, especially since I had to sell my 4 wheeler to pay the bills. Can't get to them with a...

I agree. Me and Sidewinder went to high school together, so us working together isn't an issue, but long story short, I just filed a lawsuit against a guy for some things that are missing after I...

Congratulations on buying your own home, :-)

Really depends on what you bring. I don't think I've ever taken in a ton at one time. I've taken close to a ton (~1,800 pounds), but I just drive a little Dodge Dakota with a pull-behind flatbed.
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Dude you've got some nice hauls. I never even considered driving around on Wednesday evenings checking peoples' trash bins for metal. I'll be sure to keep an eye on this topic and maybe learn a...

Fords are good trucks. Wesley's Ford has even more miles than my Dodge does, and I'm at 211,000, and they're both still going strong.

I drove up Abbitt mountain today to try and find that spot, since it's been years since I was up there. I found 2 or 3 spots where they "could" be, break-offs in the road, but there was no shoulder...

I like that T&B actually takes the time to keep the lot relatively free of metal and glass so you don't have to worry too much about getting a flat tire. That lower end by the steel can get pretty...

Oh I'm not dogging on T&B, I love going to them because they're good people, but if I had been an hour later that day I sold the car body, I would have just had to turn around and come back another...

Since I'm poor and can't afford to buy a car hauler, and the cars I've been recycling have been in hard to get to spots anyway where it would have been difficult to get a car hauler in, I usually...

How much do you usually make off cars when you scrap them out? Do you break the engine apart or sell it as one big piece? Do you remove the plastic bits?

An older topic, but I thought I would reply to this one instead of making a new one.

1999 Dodge Dakota, 3.9L V-6, 2WD, 5 speed manual transmission. Here's some photos.

My truck at a glance...

Depends really. A lot of what I've been collecting is on family private property that has long been abandoned. Between myself, my dad, uncle, and a family friend, we own a little over 300 acres,...

Myself, my little boy, and newborn little girl at the hospital. She was literally just born earlier that morning.
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Done, :-)

I have 3 Cobra 148 GTL radios that I talk on, one in the house with a Solarcon (Antron) A-99 about 30 feet in the air, one in my truck with a 102" whip, and one in the Ford Taurus...

It took me two trips to the scrap yard. I hauled the body out in one load, then came back and pulled out the engine and transmission, loaded them in the bed, then cut the frame in half, wrapped a...

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Here's the latest project I finished with my Dodge Dakota. It was an old Datsun pickup that a friend of the family had left sitting for as long as I can remember (which means at least 26 years), and...

Hey everybody, I'm the new guy. I go by Retro on the CB radio, so that's the username I picked here as well. I was referred to this forum by Sidewinder. We live pretty close to one another, and...

The scrap yard here just counts any very thin steel as tin. It don't matter if it actually is or not, sheet metal that is not aluminum and not thick enough to get classified as #1 or #2 gets counted...

I'm the new guy, and this is my first post so I apologize if I'm a little long winded.

The best one in my opinion is the one you have a title to and know how to work on when something happens to...