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Scrap handler tidying a scrapyard.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...513#post197098
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...883#post119582
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...109#post180201
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...980#post175931
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...294#post192279

Fat chance of that happening at any of the scrapyards I frequent.

Kind of think this person has done this once or twice. Nice when you have a concrete base to keep clean. My local scrap yard in in an old quarry.

My best local has a electromagnetic sweeper and a vacuum sweeper plus the people who work there will grab a broom anytime small stuff gets spilled.

The one I use has a sign follow the man guiding you or your flats are yours.
I asked the weigh master once about his sign. He said if any of our customers has a flat while in my yard if they were following their guide then I will pay for the tire repair, even buy a new one if the tire cannot be repaired.

They're really fast too! :28 sec to clean the whole area! Some people just don't like to work in clutter. I'd like to see his workshop!

This must be a junk yard for royalty or something.

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Originally Posted by nova_robotics

This must be a junk yard for royalty or something.

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Woe is me; everybody has a open scrapyard but I?
Plenty of scrap buyers, but no supply of remnants, bar ends, anything worthwhile. Of course, no one asks their real estate agent about that...do they?

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Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

Woe is me; everybody has a open scrapyard but I?
Plenty of scrap buyers, but no supply of remnants, bar ends, anything worthwhile. Of course, no one asks their real estate agent about that...do they?

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Most of the junk yards around here are just a clearing in the woods where some packrat started collecting broken cars 50 years ago. I've never seen concrete or asphalt.

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Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

Woe is me; everybody has a open scrapyard but I?

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Let's play "I'll show you mine if you show me yours."

Mine is Clark Iron and Metal, Murfreesboro TN. $0.25/lb for you to buy scrap from them and they have several sizes of new scrap you can buy too. They buy scrap as well, at prices I consider decent. Last time I was there it was $5.50 for 100 #s of shred steel/iron.

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Originally Posted by Elizabeth Greene

Let's play "I'll show you mine if you show me yours."

Mine is Clark Iron and Metal, Murfreesboro TN. $0.25/lb for you to buy scrap from them and they have several sizes of new scrap you can buy too. They buy scrap as well, at prices I consider decent. Last time I was there it was $5.50 for 100 #s of shred steel/iron.

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OMG. young lady, is this turning into FB?
OK!
I believe the classic answer is "You First"?.

Really though, with a bill of materials, scrap hunting tools, truck and trailer. My rule of thumb "not scrap if you can clamp it" I'm not adverse to 9hr 600mi tours, Kansas City to Murfreesboro. Literally.
Will google that location up.
The problem hereabouts not lack of manufacturing per se, it's for some reason light on fabrication variety. At one time, the center of paper use and especially printing industry of entire USA. Even the service shops dried up. Generally speaking, production work doesn't generate remnants nearly well as jobbers. Big means they order specific lengths to minimize excess.

It's also proved; problem of tremendous gravitational disturbance south of here, couple hours west of Dallas... A suspect rural property, with incredible ferrous deposits, inhabited by one of our honored forum. Attempt to locate it diverted hundreds of miles beyond. Of course I drove a late model hybrid. Too much plastic?