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- Thread starter Blown4x4
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Lawless
A turd in the herd
Lots of stuff but the best score ever was...
Back around '95 a guy who lived at the end of my street heard I liked wrenching on junk so he stopped by and offered me a non running snow blower he had. I go to pick it up and it's in the back of a '90 F150 2wd. I go to pull it out and he says hell no take that too. Well it won't start so I go to move an '88 escort that's in the way another non runner and as I am pulling it out of the way he tells me to go ahead and pull it home.
I get the F150, Escort and snowblower home and set to looking them over. F150 needed a fuel pump relay wire fixed and front brakes with rotors, maybe $150 all in for a low miles super clean truck. Escort had a busted timing belt, replace belt and valves, maybe $200 all in. Escort was clean as a whistle too. Cleaned the carb on the snow blower and it ran like new.
I figure with my labor and parts I am into this stuff for 6 or 7 hundred. I offered them back and he didn't want them so I sold them. $3500 for the F150 and $3000 for the Escort. I went to him with 4K in cash which I figured was fair and he said no way. Couple of daus later I dropped a check in his mail box figuring his wife would take it, got it back torn up the next day.
Turns out he was a union pipefitter and went through cars like this all the time, problem was I offended him so greatly trying to be a good guy he got a real hate on for me, like call the city on me all the time hate on, he held that grudge until he retired and moved away.
Sometimes people are just fucking strange.
Back around '95 a guy who lived at the end of my street heard I liked wrenching on junk so he stopped by and offered me a non running snow blower he had. I go to pick it up and it's in the back of a '90 F150 2wd. I go to pull it out and he says hell no take that too. Well it won't start so I go to move an '88 escort that's in the way another non runner and as I am pulling it out of the way he tells me to go ahead and pull it home.
I get the F150, Escort and snowblower home and set to looking them over. F150 needed a fuel pump relay wire fixed and front brakes with rotors, maybe $150 all in for a low miles super clean truck. Escort had a busted timing belt, replace belt and valves, maybe $200 all in. Escort was clean as a whistle too. Cleaned the carb on the snow blower and it ran like new.
I figure with my labor and parts I am into this stuff for 6 or 7 hundred. I offered them back and he didn't want them so I sold them. $3500 for the F150 and $3000 for the Escort. I went to him with 4K in cash which I figured was fair and he said no way. Couple of daus later I dropped a check in his mail box figuring his wife would take it, got it back torn up the next day.
Turns out he was a union pipefitter and went through cars like this all the time, problem was I offended him so greatly trying to be a good guy he got a real hate on for me, like call the city on me all the time hate on, he held that grudge until he retired and moved away.
Sometimes people are just fucking strange.
toocheaptosmoke
Dollar Save Club
Have saved a bunch of old sleds that were going to get scrapped. Haven't bought a lawn care device in years, free mowers and trimmers usually just need a carb or fuel line repaired. Local scrap yards really don't let you take/buy anything out of them, which really pains me at times...
Found a perfectly seasoned old cast iron skillet in a dumpster, still using it.
Best lawn tractor find was when a guy at work told me about his neighbor that had a troy built 18hp that had cracked the block, and he wanted it out of the garage. So I stopped over eventually to load it up and the dude was extremely happy that I was disposing of it for him. Said that when it broke it didn't have many hours, but had just been taking up space in the garage for years. It was in pretty nice shape actually, so when I got it home looked it over a bit more. The kohlers have the block cracking problem, but this thing had a briggs?? No oil visible on dipstick, so added a little bit, and pretty soon it was dripping out onto the ground. Upon further inspection the oil drain plug fitting was loose!
Easiest repair of a cracked block evar.
Found a perfectly seasoned old cast iron skillet in a dumpster, still using it.
Best lawn tractor find was when a guy at work told me about his neighbor that had a troy built 18hp that had cracked the block, and he wanted it out of the garage. So I stopped over eventually to load it up and the dude was extremely happy that I was disposing of it for him. Said that when it broke it didn't have many hours, but had just been taking up space in the garage for years. It was in pretty nice shape actually, so when I got it home looked it over a bit more. The kohlers have the block cracking problem, but this thing had a briggs?? No oil visible on dipstick, so added a little bit, and pretty soon it was dripping out onto the ground. Upon further inspection the oil drain plug fitting was loose!
Easiest repair of a cracked block evar.![[486]](https://data.irate4x4.com/avatars/m/0/94.jpg?1700178133){kind=avatar}
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ugh, that guy again?
same when I was in the cities
you could still discretely load up stuff from the pile while dumping off other stuff
was there dumping buckets of lathe/drill chips and grinder dust (it sticks to a magnet, they'll give me my 2 cents a lb for it)
saw bunch of spools of 3/32" stainless mig wire, well I can use those for tig filler thank you very much, yoink
DozerDan82
Master of the Universe!!!
Have saved a bunch of old sleds that were going to get scrapped. Haven't bought a lawn care device in years, free mowers and trimmers usually just need a carb or fuel line repaired. Local scrap yards really don't let you take/buy anything out of them, which really pains me at times...
Found a perfectly seasoned old cast iron skillet in a dumpster, still using it.
Best lawn tractor find was when a guy at work told me about his neighbor that had a troy built 18hp that had cracked the block, and he wanted it out of the garage. So I stopped over eventually to load it up and the dude was extremely happy that I was disposing of it for him. Said that when it broke it didn't have many hours, but had just been taking up space in the garage for years. It was in pretty nice shape actually, so when I got it home looked it over a bit more. The kohlers have the block cracking problem, but this thing had a briggs?? No oil visible on dipstick, so added a little bit, and pretty soon it was dripping out onto the ground. Upon further inspection the oil drain plug fitting was loose!
I got a free mower from the side of the road, newer but cheapish unit. 42" deck, 21hp engine, not bad. Had a free sign, so I took it. Steering heim was busted, $6 later that was fixed, flushed some fuel through it, cleaned the carb, tossed a battery on it and sold it for $600. Done a bunch like that but that was the biggest gain.
Fishbone333
Red Stiff Member
I found a weber Q grille in a dumpster at work. Tables, ladders, rolling steps all brand new. Wood, pipe, tube, i hate to see good shit thrown away. My wife hates to see me bringing more shit home.
TrikeKid
Junk Hoarder
Most my scrap saves are automotive related. I keep just about every sacked out leaf spring I replace and most of the perfectly good shocks people want replaced. Got a decent truck/van crane that folds down into a big ass bumper too, guy just wanted it cut off the van... The bumper on its own would cost $150-200 in materials nevermind the crane.
Waste Management has a couple dumpsters across the street from my house for recycling, sometimes people toss perfectly good shit over there. Got 4-5 nice steel folding chairs someone left over there, and lots of folks have a habit of filling milk crates full of cans or bottles and tossing the whole thing, so I have a stack of crates for storage now too.
Waste Management has a couple dumpsters across the street from my house for recycling, sometimes people toss perfectly good shit over there. Got 4-5 nice steel folding chairs someone left over there, and lots of folks have a habit of filling milk crates full of cans or bottles and tossing the whole thing, so I have a stack of crates for storage now too.
TRINDU
PBB Orphan
When I was 18, I was given a 1980 Cherokee and an 87 samurai. Guy needed them hauled off. Pretty much set the cogs in motion for the rest of my life.
I saved HUNDREDS of tires from scrap when I worked for DTC in highschool. I'd throw the sets on CL for cheap. All the tires deemed irreparable, I'd sell for $5 each. Buddy worked at a meskin tire shop and his boss would pay $10. Had a helluva racket going on.
From an actual scrap yard... countless antique horse drawn farm equipment. 4WD NV4500, few axles, LU2 winch. Some asswipe scrapped a '58 W200 and the yard wouldnt let me buy the truck. Took all the high dollar parts. 20s ford cowl, misc parts.
My buddy and his family do the opposite. Scrapped a 65 mustang coupe (rough but restorable), running and driving MB 300D, and his grandpa DROVE a registered honda civic to the scrap yard because he didnt want it anymore. thats about the time he was no longer in charge of his finances.
I saved HUNDREDS of tires from scrap when I worked for DTC in highschool. I'd throw the sets on CL for cheap. All the tires deemed irreparable, I'd sell for $5 each. Buddy worked at a meskin tire shop and his boss would pay $10. Had a helluva racket going on.
From an actual scrap yard... countless antique horse drawn farm equipment. 4WD NV4500, few axles, LU2 winch. Some asswipe scrapped a '58 W200 and the yard wouldnt let me buy the truck. Took all the high dollar parts. 20s ford cowl, misc parts.
My buddy and his family do the opposite. Scrapped a 65 mustang coupe (rough but restorable), running and driving MB 300D, and his grandpa DROVE a registered honda civic to the scrap yard because he didnt want it anymore. thats about the time he was no longer in charge of his finances.
Toreadorranger
Atomic Test Lab Rat
Electric start Honda Push mower on the side of the road for free, guy was giving it away because the battery wouldn't hold a charge. Get it home toss some gas in it, starts first pull. people are silly.
Blown4x4
Well-known member
- Joined
- May 21, 2020
- Member Number
- 829
- Messages
- 86
Saved this Hyster 110 from the scrap yard. My employer purchased several of our competitors, and this lift was surplus. I used this lift to load 1” faralloy 400 96”x288” plates onto flatbed trailers. Got it for 8 cents a pound.
Benny
Broke Bastard
My neighbor gave me his riding lawn mower.
He was mowing the grass and it quit driving. He said the transaxle went out and the JD dealer said it was to old to be worth fixing. He towed it to my house and I had a look at the problem. The idler pulley on the drive belt wore off on one side and the belt slipped off. I took an idler from a Ford 5.0 in the shop and slapped it on there and drive it to his house within the hour.
He was mowing the grass and it quit driving. He said the transaxle went out and the JD dealer said it was to old to be worth fixing. He towed it to my house and I had a look at the problem. The idler pulley on the drive belt wore off on one side and the belt slipped off. I took an idler from a Ford 5.0 in the shop and slapped it on there and drive it to his house within the hour.
Blugreenformula
Fuck Cancer
- Joined
- May 19, 2020
- Member Number
- 193
- Messages
- 110
A buddy called a couple weeks ago, he has a 2006 AWD Mountaineer with a soft transmission and wanted to know if I was interested in it for a low but undetermined price. I kicked the idea around for a few days and decided against it because I couldn't figure out a reason to buy, yet another project. He called tonight and asked again, I declined and he asked what junkyard I would recommend. I told him to just drop it off here and I will give him $300 for it if he only wants scrap value. He then jewed me down and told me he only wants $250 for it. So tomorrow I will be the proud owner of a minty fresh 2006 Mountaineer with a failing transmission finished in that damn gold color Mercury painted so many of their vehicles. 
Trick95
Well-known member
- Joined
- May 20, 2020
- Member Number
- 817
- Messages
- 130
2000 sebring jxi. Dad decided he wants to focus on his 79 magnum instead of the convertible and both sebrings were headed to the yard. Told me if I want them, get one running and I can have it, he'll scrap what's left of the parts car. Need to tap a hole for one sensor bolt, finish swapping the top/interiors, strip some spare parts off the other shell to put on the shelf, and we're good to go.
Hard to say no to free convertible.
Hard to say no to free convertible.
Stuck
In Hell
- Joined
- May 20, 2020
- Member Number
- 424
- Messages
- 1,818
A complete 300lb olympic weight set plus as many other plates as I wanted with bench. They had four sets sitting in the yard and a huge stack of plates and bars.
3 3500lb 4" drop axles with hubs wheels tires and springs. Plus all of the steel needed for two utility trailers and a tilt motorcycle trailer.
2 hornady 007 and one rcbs reloading presses with an assortment of dies all in perfect working order.
A huge assortment of large stainless pots and containers we used for home brewing.
Steel pallet racking.
Tons of chain and steel tubing, channel, plate, angle and other assorted goodies.
All of it was bought for $.05 to $.10 over scrap price. I really miss living near that yard.
3 3500lb 4" drop axles with hubs wheels tires and springs. Plus all of the steel needed for two utility trailers and a tilt motorcycle trailer.
2 hornady 007 and one rcbs reloading presses with an assortment of dies all in perfect working order.
A huge assortment of large stainless pots and containers we used for home brewing.
Steel pallet racking.
Tons of chain and steel tubing, channel, plate, angle and other assorted goodies.
All of it was bought for $.05 to $.10 over scrap price. I really miss living near that yard.
ConwayMuddy
Dis member
Trick95 said:
Not when it's a sebring. Unless you're a woman, in which case, TOGTFO
KungFooMASTA
El Stupido
I have a Ferd kp60 in the back yard my neighbor friend has a dodge kp60 under his buggy, I have an 82-3 Toyota 4x4 and a 56 Ford F100 with a good bed and a vw diesel engine and trans that I saved from the scrap yard. Now that scrap yard is not owned by an individual its owned by a big corporation so I doubt they will let me trade scrap for vehicles I want.