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    Quote Originally Posted by sawmilleng View Post
    Cummins,

    What's the story behind the great gezzus tapered roller bearings in your truck on the 9th photo down? It looks like you are getting into some industrial-weight scrap!!

    Resourceful,

    Were you able to sell that long chunk of I beam for better than scrap?

    Good looking loads!!!



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    that little trailer was scraped jord the thing was like 2ft wide, two small and waste time to have to pull all the rear ends of it then it was to drve it to the scrap yard. it was friday of a long weekend and the other yards were closed and i need my trailer empty to head up north so i ened up going to smaller scrap yard in pefferlaw and he deducted like 200lbs because of the plywood....guy knows how to make money. lol

    and that was a bearing from a wheel loader i think. came from a machine shop that works on alot of cat equipment. that was when my transmission was blown and had to hire a friend and his truck. i was stupid busy last spring.


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    really crappy stove i tried to sell for 30, lots of inquiries but no followups :/
    sold a crappy airleaky chest freezer for 20


    wasnt sure if i wanted to drive miles to my parents house to grab stuff, but a nice gas dryer popped up on CL free section. im gonna see if landlord will take some cash off rent to replace our crappy old inefficient one and sell that for like $40.
    I was on my way back to parents house on the old road i pull off to the side of the road to swoop up a folding couch, start axing off the wood when my homie flyies by on a roadbike with a gopro on "YO POBEEEEYYYYYYY", haha
    the wood is really thin and light, minimal cushions so im just gonna turn it in as is.

    then on my way back to my house, i stop at another craigslist free, garage sale,
    fillllll alll the nooks and crannies of my truck with all sorts of fun stuff, cookware, and more seats, seems everytime we break a chair in this house, i find another one, ha! there was 5 full pieces of plywood there that i didnt even notice as i was digging through all the junk that some other guy came by, picked up and left with DOH

    i got this sweet bracelet to accompany the only other piece of jewelry ive ever really consistantly worn

    then i push everything out the back of the truck into the lot cuase i was late for my appt to pick up this other craigslist freebie

    the guy insisted it was too heavy for me to move by myself so i believed him "must be at least 300lb i thought to myself, $30" so i paid a friend $10 to come help me and the thing was probably 150lb at the most, i coulda easily lifted in the truck myself bleh. you win some you lose some. oh well, at least it was like 50/50 it coulda been ss or something, worth the wager if you ask me.


    not pictured, two 30gal bowfront aquariums, christmas day were going to my cousins house and near there on the craigslist free is two aquairums so i swoop them up in the minivan filling in the back seats, woo

    ive always ignored cl free section cuase it seems like im alaways too late, but this has been working jsut grand
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    tater, did you make a trailer out of a truck bed? and its legal?? thats pretty freaking cool!!
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    not really a shred load but going from my house to my parents

    -bike
    -dad's heavy duty dolly i thought i may need to load the big item...
    -my CRV barrel filled with my toolbox, blankets(gonna bring a 55gal fishtank back here for me and a 30gal to a CL customer) and a computer i found to weight it all down
    -a ****ty plastic container filled with small steel items, a bag of aluminum and a bag of wires
    -and then... and then a bigass ob/gyn table to store at my parents while it sits listed on CL

    I figured if im gonna start my truck up (i usually bike) i may as well run some errands,
    parked my truck, rode to get a free slice of pizza (coupon) went across the street to indian store for some tahini, then back to the shop fwhere the warm slice was waiting, then down the hill a lil to the grocery store to buy some stuff, skitched a car back up the hill to my truck, then still had time so i mob to the skatepark, on the way i find this sweet metal container, load it up. hit the skatepark, ride for a bit grab a bunch of energy drink and beer cans left there then around the corner from the park i pick up some pallets from a constant pallet source as well as a nice solid pice of plywood, hmmmm, yeeaaaaahhhh


    oh man, the load going back home later that night was sooo nicely packed flat and level with the bed with my bike above it all upright, proud and tall

    when i got home my roomie was like "hey there was a car jack curbed on the corner"
    I went to go checkit out and of course it was gone
    "well i saw our neighbor scrappy mcscrapscrap passing by too so he probably got it"
    oh well
    so I ride off to the club and on my way home, no more than 1/8mi from my house, what do i see?
    a curbed carjack. pick it up and continue riding home no hands, haha, things going my wayyyy
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    heavy mofo, two of them

    also just got a little sidebasket for my booze cruiser... that way i can keep the boozebasket clean and fill the sidebasket with cans and other crap i find on the curb

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    I will be posting lots of pictures of my dads and my truck when we get metal its been kinda slow past month or two but I will sure post up to two pictures of what we take to the scrap yard daily.

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    I guess I'm a picture freak. I take pics of all my loads (for what reason I don't know). Was surprised to find this load weighed 2.6 ton on Thursday. Now I'm wondering if that watertank didn't have 6 inches of hard concrete in the bottom. It's a common practice to seal leaks when they get older. All this was under a tree. License on the auto frame was from 1960. Yeah, it's embarrassing to haul a load like this but I always said..."I look like a junkman so I may as well be a junkman". I wish I was younger though....I'm liking this.

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    It's been slow here since winter hit. Two weeks ago my son-in-law calls and says that he's bringing some "computer stuff" that his work place was getting rid of. When I get home from dialysis there is roughly 20 pieces of equipment setting in my living room. Most are different sizes, brands of printers with 4 or 5 battery back-ups thrown in. One even still had juice in it cause when I hit the power button the green light popped on. Tearing them down in the house but doing it slower so I don't end up with ink all over the floor. The back-up I may use for trading stock. The printers all have tags on them with the problems so I'm going to scrap them. Nothing beats free.



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    Boy I wouldn't know where to start on THAT, but give me a Gleaner Combine and I'm in heaven.

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    Here's my load for today. I did an authorized dumpster dive and pulled out 20 of these nice heat sinks. They are huge and weigh from 6 to 9 lbs each.


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    Nice...!
    It is really good collection of Loads...!

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    Quote Originally Posted by newattitude View Post
    tater, did you make a trailer out of a truck bed? and its legal?? thats pretty freaking cool!!
    I didn't build that one, but have built 12 others. And yes it's legal provided safety chains and lights are present, but that's a state to state kinda thing. Got a 1 ton dually gooseneck im building right now, gona have a buddy put a dump kit on it after its complete, it's gona be pretty sweet.
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