find the faults in my plan

**beardo** · 05-18-2013, 06:25 PM

Wow the legends of smf are commenting on my post!!!!! Thank you for all your replies. My wife is very supportive of my scraping and is the queen of thrift store brass, I agree that slowly I can ease her in to junk cars slowly. To clarify my question; When I said I scrap part time I mean I often work 60-70 hours a week at my job that is somewhat seasonal, take care of my animals, we grow a lot of our own food and in my "free" time scrap. So I am attempting to get a good system to turn and burn vehicles in a quick efficient way. If I decide to go this route I will have a compressor on the trailer and my ultimate goal would be be to not remove the cars from the trailer. Pick up, strip and scrap!

**sledge** · 05-18-2013, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by beardo

If I decide to go this route I will have a compressor on the trailer and my ultimate goal would be be to not remove the cars from the trailer. Pick up, strip and scrap!

I only took 1 vehicle off the trailer I have ever done (my first).. and getting it back on was a nightmare.. Somewhere with me gutting and killing it in the garage- all four wheels were LOCKED, I mean like I put the emergency brake on and then welded the wheels to the hub, and then welded the hub to the axle. I must have cut something that told the vehicle to seize the brakes and never let go. I still have the skidmarks on my garage floor! Now- They go on the trailer as I get em.. and they only come off with a forklift or SUPER CLAW in a dusty dirty yard that will be its final resting place!!

**ryanw** · 05-18-2013, 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by beardo

Wow the legends of smf are commenting on my post!!!!!

What was Sirscrapalot saying? Something something my head. I forget.

beardo - I think it's a good plan to have a roving workshop. You just need a place to store things that you strip off of the cars. People do well selling parts taken off of cars, so not turning and burning all of the car could be beneficial.