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06-20-2006, 04:37 PM
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yesteryear, try posting it here then linking it: http://www.imageshack.us/  |
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06-22-2006, 06:26 PM
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| Browsing the scrap yard
My wife wants an arbor built, so I said I had to get the metal for it - another opportunity to browse the scrap yard. I think there's an arbor in some of that sucker rod, but there is a bunch of punches, drifts, hardy tools and who knows what else; plus a tool stand in the I-beam, hooks and sign brackets in the rebar, stock stands on the brake rotors, and on and on....  |
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07-13-2006, 03:53 AM
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This hasn't followed me home yet but it will when it's replaced as part of the redevelopment of the background. Another simpler gate at the rear of the property also has my name on it. I asked the site manager what will happen to the gates and sensing that they'd end up in the tip I put dibs on them. He told me yesterday that they were mine for the taking and the doing with what I liked. All I have to do now is not stuff up any surveys on the site. Moral: nothing ventured nothing gained
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07-16-2006, 09:39 AM
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 Sunday morning coming down
Went for an early morning drive this morning and hit 3 spots I check on a regular basis 2 out of three produced unusually good finds. Don't know how many spikes there are but the truck squatted a tad. The tie clips were a bonus.The Brake drums are from a truck shop down the road. May have to hit the spring shop this afternoon, while luck is on my side. I drove home with an old Johnny Cash tape playing and singing to myself(The truck and the shower are the only two places I sing)LOL JWB
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07-16-2006, 12:41 PM
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Nice haul, I I can get alot of those truck drums, but I can't figure out what they can be used for other than a part for a smelter!
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07-16-2006, 01:13 PM
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Add legs, steel balls are simplest, put stucco lath in bottom, and you have big flower pot, or container garden. I have peppers growing in my two. Rusty stuff is the hot ticket amongst the yuppie crowd here. They use metal strips, exposed for lots of landscaping. just weld cathodic protection to backside .
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07-16-2006, 02:27 PM
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AM, Two of the drums will be grinder bases and I'm sure the other one will be a base too. I just haven't acquired the tool to mount on it yet. JWB
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07-16-2006, 03:03 PM
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Look for a flywheel from a standard transmission to weld to the brake drum for additional ballast. Weld a piece of steel plate to the drum so it extends out in front for you to stand on. Both are great help in preventing tip overs.
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07-17-2006, 01:02 AM
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Cool, thanks, good ideas. Any other ideas for those huge brake drums from 18 wheelers? Plant pots is a good neat idea, I will get some and add legs, then sell them for $100.
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07-17-2006, 02:36 AM
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This is kind of old, but can I get a close up picture of this "sucker rod"? I made a hammer out of some of that once, I think. It cracked when I oil quenched it. It would have been a great hammer, otherwise.
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