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CHOMPY Hard At Work
It's hard to imagine any junkyard crushing un damaged rust free cabs but it's a daily event .
I needed a cab for my 1969 C/10 and my favorite junkyard said "begins at $700 and goes up " ~ instead I bought a near perfect cab with title for $350 and the junkyard got $35 in scrap value..... Some are kinda stupid ~ when I ran a junkyard I never had much inventory because I SOLD EVERYTHING CHEAPLY ~ DUH . |
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Then it gets put on a boat and shipped to ????, well you know where !!!!!!
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Where The Scrap Metal Goes....
Actually, I don't know where scrap metal goes anymore .
I'm old so it used to mostly go to Japan, maybe China now ? . When I ran a tiny VW oriented junkyard I had enough $ that I gave the scrap metal (bodies & cores) to a junkyard down the road, the always treated me well and often gave me old VW's they didn't want to be bothered with . |
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There are steel mills in Arkansas that melt scrap and shredded steel to make new bridge beams ect. At present I have 16 square cab trucks that I am actively parting out. Most where setting and Rotting that I saved from going to the scrapper.
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You're prolly in a good place, selling much needed parts .
I had a VW Shop in a College town and wasn't greedy so I did pretty well . Most junkyards moan and ***** about never making enough $ then periodically clean out the yard of parts they'd refused to sell affordably, crush everything for scrap value then begin anew . I just sold parts, few had much $, I sold the hell out of everything and made a decent living . I don't want to deal with Customers anymore . I tried the swap meet thing for a while and never made less than $1,000 a day after gas, entry fees and lunch for me and my son.... There too I sold, didn't waste too much time asking high prices . All I had was a short bed1/2 ton pickup so no huge piles o' stuff to take, I rarely brought home more than a milk crate or two of left overs . |
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Someone liked that surfboard , it's gone in two of those pic
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There's no conspiracy, there was cash for cars, every where not just California .
What I was talking about is ignorance, greed and stupidity . |
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This ‘ran when parked’ dent side deserves a spot in this thread:
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No one showed a photo of my Dualie sitting out in the yard so life is good.
I've had a number of good friends with wrecking yards over the years and the general consensus on buying rigs for the yard was that they were worth what the engine would sell for on that rig and you got your profit from the rest. One who seldom paid over 35.00 for any vehicle he bought and usually hauled them away with them being given to him to get rid of them sold fenders and doors and hoods for 25.00 each no matter what they were off except for a few actual specialty rigs. Parts were worth what people would pay cash for that day in most cases but their prices were friendly and their volume was high. Still vehicles had so many days in the yard before the line they were in got crushed as his real money was in hauling crushed cars. The operator of a yard in town who is third generation gives me great deals but I have given him maybe 50 cars over the years and he remembers that. I used to buy a lot of cars for what amounts to beer money now and take what I wanted and call his dad and then him to come get the rest with the title laying on the seat. The "I'll part it out myself" brigade around here wants more for parts than wrecking yards half of the time. You can find deals on bought it for the engine and trans rigs with nice cabs though. |
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