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**too much stuff** · 11-12-2021, 07:13 PM

Was junkyarding recently and ran across this... Look close.

A whole bunch of junk yardin pics coming soon to a screen near you.

**truckster** · 11-12-2021, 07:27 PM

A rust tree?

**jocko** · 11-12-2021, 08:09 PM

Elm Camino

**Grumpy old man** · 11-12-2021, 08:12 PM

Looks like an axle tree with some U Bolt vine wrapped around it ?

best view · 11-12-2021, 08:54 PM

Dead

**68bowtie** · 11-12-2021, 09:11 PM

12-bolt mulberry

**Sheepdip** · 11-12-2021, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by jocko

Elm Camino

Good One!

**Dieselwrencher** · 11-12-2021, 09:55 PM

It looks like a rust infested trailing arm......

**special-K** · 11-13-2021, 06:14 AM

It's not a tree, it's the rear out of a woody wagon

4u2nv · 11-13-2021, 08:22 AM

I knew he was out there somewhere.

**too much stuff** · 11-13-2021, 10:22 AM

I thought ironwood at first.
You guys are good. It is indeed a rear end with the u-bolt still attached.
Remember this the next time those from the drier climates ask if something is too rusty to save.

LONGHAIR · 11-13-2021, 11:15 AM

I have seen some seriously rusty/crusty stuff over the years (myself included) but that takes the top prize.
How did it get so bark-like? It's obviously been in the weather and nothing has ever touched/interrupted it, but what else?

**Dieselwrencher** · 11-13-2021, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by LONGHAIR

I have seen some seriously rusty/crusty stuff over the years (myself included) but that takes the top prize.
How did it get so bark-like? It's obviously been in the weather and nothing has ever touched/interrupted it, but what else?

Sodium Chloride, brine, any other liquid rust ice remover the DOT can make up.

**special-K** · 11-13-2021, 12:04 PM

That stuff keeps on eating. Way worse than salt.

LONGHAIR · 11-13-2021, 04:44 PM

Calsium? I remember that stuff being used as ballast in tractor tires and it wheels, valve stems, and pretty much everything else.

72c20customcamper · 11-13-2021, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by LONGHAIR

Calsium? I remember that stuff being used as ballast in tractor tires and it wheels, valve stems, and pretty much everything else.

Yes it's used in tractors but you have to use with an inner tube or the rim will rot away fairly quickly. It works better than plain rock salt but destroys cars in winter I run the trucks I use thru the car wash with the undercarriage wash at least twice a month but stuff still rots . I had to replace the rear in my Dodge and repair the one in Tacoma .

Last two are on my 04 GMC less than 100k not used much in winter . Rear upper link rotted away from the frame had to fab up a replacement . I love living here but hate driving in winter

57taskforce · 11-13-2021, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Sodium Chloride, brine, any other liquid rust ice remover the DOT can make up.

That damn brine they used to put down when I lived in VA was murder. My dad got my mom a brand new suburban in 2004. By 2019 when she got rid of it, it had body rot all the way around and in the cargo area floor. She never got the under carriage wash at the car wash and it showed bad. Im glad they don’t really use salt here when the bad weather comes. We live 14 miles from Colorado so I do get snow, but they don’t go overboard like the Midwest/east coast.

11-12-2021, 07:13 PM	#1
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11-12-2021, 07:27 PM	#2
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11-12-2021, 08:09 PM	#3
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11-12-2021, 08:12 PM	#4
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11-12-2021, 08:54 PM	#5
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11-12-2021, 09:11 PM	#6
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11-12-2021, 09:55 PM	#8
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11-13-2021, 06:14 AM	#9
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11-13-2021, 08:22 AM	#10
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11-13-2021, 10:22 AM	#11
too much stuff Roadtrip! Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Grand Rapids MN Posts: 13,714	Re: What kind of tree is this? I thought ironwood at first. You guys are good. It is indeed a rear end with the u-bolt still attached. Remember this the next time those from the drier climates ask if something is too rusty to save. __________________ 67 gmc custom lwb dakota truck. Sold...And bought back 69 swb 4x4 project (in progress) 70 c-10 lwb texas truck 70 4x4/BB/bkts/posi/tach(retired) 70 swb (wifes) 70 jimmy camper 71 K-5 factory 2wd 71 cheyenne 4x4/tach/posi/ plow rig 71 Cheyenne20 BB, buckets, tach, tilt, 4 speed 72 jimmy CST wyoming rig 72 jimmy Colorado rig 72 lifted texas 4x4 3/4 ton burb 65 fury conv. 383/auto 65 chrysler 300 "L" 413 auto

11-13-2021, 12:04 PM	#14
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