A local machine shop was having "the scrap guy" come to pick up some older equipment, I hate seeing good tools go to the scrap yard so I picked up 6 of these monster 3 Phase Delta drill presses at scrap price.

Yesterday my son and I went to a local scrap yard (we are lucky to have 3 within 20 minutes of us). This one is a U-Pick yard with vehicles, so we scoped out some old tow trucks for their rigging equipment. We picked up a goodly number of D-Rings (2 Ton) and some hooks (one swiveling)

We also found 2 good lengths of chain with hooks on them, one has a swiveling chain (was from an old winch)

We had our eye on some chain with 4" long links, but the scrap guy stopped us and said they were for their use....I'm supposed to call him back this week and see if hes willing to part with it at scrap price : )

Then my son spotted a file in the dirt which turned out to be a farriers rasp...it cleaned up nicely and is plenty sharp

Then he found an 8" C Clamp right next to it buried in the dirt

Then he proceeded to find 35 more Farriers Rasps in the same pile!

And as if this wasnt good enough, someone had dropped off a 5' Disc Harrow on top of the steel pile which we've been wanting for a long time now

It needs new bearings on one gang and some weld up on the two front axels, but that makes good practice in casting and welding

I finished the day with cleaning up and reassembling the old vice I picked up last saturday in my barn pick

A very satisfying day overall

Nice! I'm drooling over those rasps.

I really like the booty, great finds.. Sounds like a great yard.. 

Just now, C-1ToolSteel said:

Nice! I'm drooling over those rasps.

After i use them as hot rasps  they go in the scrap pile..  I used to have about 200 of them.. Last scrapper that came through took them home with him.. 

Nice haul! 

Don't scrap the rasps, plenty of people looking for them to use on projects. They make good trading stock.

I can only dream of finding a pile of rasps like that. That reminds me I need to call my sister in laws farrier and see if he has any laying around lol. 

Yeah, I'm excited about the rasps too. There were actually some cold chisels and wood augers in the same pile we picked up.

Also, I don't think I posted a pic of what was in the "misc barrel of star drills" we picked up last week, but here it is all laid out:

What you call a "D ring", ... is also-known-as a "Clevis", ... or a "Shackle".

 

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So how's the shop expansion coming along?  With a scrapyard like that, you'll be needing more room soon---on  a regular basis!

Nice picking

Eli, what are those pointed things in the bottom centre of your second pic?  I have loads of those things and have no idea what they are for. Perhaps they are good steel I can shape into something useful.

Those are cape chisels.  If you look in the dictionary:

 

Definition of cape chisel. : a cold chisel that has a long taper on the top and bottom of the cutting end and a narrow edge and is used for cutting keyways and similar flat grooves.

4 hours ago, ausfire said:

Eli, what are those pointed things in the bottom centre of your second pic?

 

53 minutes ago, Farmall said:

Those are cape chisels.

Yeah, I actually didn't know what they were called either, just knew they were slim chisels

21 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

So how's the shop expansion coming along?

Expanding is dangerous, that just means more empty space that will be filled at some point!

Will?  You mean it's not overly full *yet*!  I doubled the size of my shop and now thinking that it would be real nice to have a roofed over but open walled "carport" off one end of the shop...

54 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said:

it would be real nice to have a roofed over but open walled "carport" off one end of the shop...

aka "cold storage"

Not out here in the desert Southwest!   We take scrap metal off the pile and put it in the forge to cool off a bit...   In the shade is merely hot storage vs #$%^&*hot storage in the sun....

I'm a big believer in ventilation when using both coal and propane forges.

16 hours ago, Eli Taylor said:

 

Expanding is dangerous, that just means more empty space that will be filled at some point!

Horror Vacui applies to workshops

7 hours ago, gote said:

Horror Vacui applies to workshops

So that is another one of my many 'illness's, mine is getting progressively worse.