
Originally Posted by
gustavus
Hey welcome to the rubbish forum, er I mean the scrappers Forum your wealth of knowledge will be a welcome addition.
Yea I got the problem solved for those heavy beaters that the crane struggles to lift I now back up to it bumper to bumper then lift the heavy beast onto its tail which draws it nearer to the rear of my deck then when i lower the beast it settles onto the deck then I can suck the rest onto the deck using the jib.
Couple of months back I searched out the owner of a vacant farm which has some scrap kicking about, the guy was being difficult over the phone and he annoys me, eventually I asked him if he thought he was speaking with the Village idiot.
Well this afternoon I'm taking a load of scrap lumber to the landfill, the load is insecure but I'm compensating by going slow when a car comes up alongside and pulls me over we both get out of our vehicles meeting at the back of his SUV.
Fist question out of his mouth is, you live at the corner I say yes and you are. He replies Corporal Blink, knowing full well my load is insecure I ask him if he is on duty, he says no I'm a Dr. just checking your heart. Then he makes a comment about a call I made several months back with the inference to the Village idiot. Ahhh I say your Doug.
Anyhow he's coming over in an hour or so, we're going out to his vacant farm property to tag the junk, which is fairly straight forward an old truck, combine, some augers and a pallet full of lead acid battery's.
With the price of scrap metal dropping I'm not prepared to make an offer and will say so when we meet. As we all know from the news China is heading into some hard times then everyone is worried about the Euro the ripples will have far reaching tentacles like a vise on our testicles. Its going to hurt!
Thanks sir,
Not sure how much that truck weighs. My Ford built similar to that hit's the scales at around 5400 lbs with tools on it. I just pulled 2 GMC 3500's into town about 3 weeks ago. They were cought in the floods last year in Memphis. I'm going to try to sell the utility beds and scrap the rest. I pulled the oil sticks out and the engines are full of water

One of them had a new Jasper crate engine and transmission and the other had a used engine with less then 30,000 miles on it. You want to drive down here and make a haul....
Now I got it, I was thinking scrap not gold.
No, it sits, I loaned the guy my books Hoke and Ammens in hard copy, they both sat undisturbed on his coffee table for three weeks so I brought them home. I'm not going to waste my time and acids with someone not willing to read.
I have cemented out the values using copper and will wait for a day when he is able to come over then melt what he has into a button so that he cant accuse me of theft, then I'm going to send him on his way.
The tin was a surprise and a little bit goes a long ways in making that nasty paste.
You are probably better off if he is not going to make an effort to learn anything. Hey you have been there before it is a loosing battle no matter what you do.
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