A Tumbleweeds View of Scrapping - Page 7

Ever notice how sexy an older woman can be with her own fire arms???

Glad to hear you're good so far.

I know you got far more than you can do but have you ever though about the re-claimed wood business? Them city folks go crazy for barn wood, out house wood they don't seem to care. Mike

A blind carpenter walks into a lumber mill and shouts out, "I am a blind carpenter and I need a job."

The foreman walks over to the blind carpenter and says, "If you're blind, how can you work in a lumber yard?"

The blind carpenter says, "I can tell any piece of lumber by it's smell."

The foreman says "O.K. I'll give you a test and if you pass the test, you've got a job."

The foreman takes the carpenter over to a table and says, "I will put some lumber on a table in front of you and you tell me what it is."

The foreman then puts a piece of lumber on the table and says, "Ready!"

The carpenter bends over and takes a deep sniff moving his head from one side to the other. He says "That's a number two pine, two by four, eight foot long."

The foreman says, "Duh! That's right, but pine is easy to tell by the smell and I think you guessed the rest. Here's another piece of lumber for you to identify."

The foreman puts a piece of lumber on the table and says, "Ready!"

The blind carpenter bends over and takes a deep sniff moving his head from one side to the other and says, "This is a tough one, please turn it over so I can smell the other side."

The foreman does this and says "Ready!"

The carpenter takes another deep sniff moving his head from side to side. He then says, "That's a clear heart red wood, four by four, six foot long."

The foreman is amazed and says "That's right, but I still think you're just lucky and still guessing. Let me try one more time and if you get it right you got a job."

The foreman then goes into the office and asks his secretary to help him stump the blind carpenter by taking off all of her clothes and laying down on the table. She takes off her clothes walks out of the office and lays face down on the table. The foreman says, "Ready!"

The blind carpenter takes a deep sniff moving his head from side to side. He looks puzzled and takes another sniff and says, "This also is a tough one, please turn it over so I can smell the other side."

The foreman gestures with his hand to the secretary, she rolls over, and the foreman says, "Ready!"

The blind carpenter moves his head from side to side again looking puzzled. He sniffs one more time, looks surprised, and says, "I got it. That's an outhouse door off a tuna boat."

He got the job.

Originally Posted by miked

Ever notice how sexy an older woman can be with her own fire arms???

Glad to hear you're good so far.

I know you got far more than you can do but have you ever though about the re-claimed wood business? Them city folks go crazy for barn wood, out house wood they don't seem to care. Mike

My wife is even sexier when her gun is loaded. She says the same about me.

Your timing is impeccable about old wood. I have an old barn and two granaries that need to be removed. Some of this wood will be used on projects at the ranch and cabin. There is more than enough to finish these projects and 100 more. It would be great to make a deal for the wood and find a reasonable avenue for transportation. Any help would be appreciated.

MattInTheHat - Thank you for a great story. I could not stop laughing until the wife read it and rolled over giggling. Now I have to go to work. Thanks for the moment.

Originally Posted by Patriot76

My wife is even sexier when her gun is loaded. She says the same about me.

Your timing is impeccable about old wood. I have an old barn and two granaries that need to be removed. Some of this wood will be used on projects at the ranch and cabin. There is more than enough to finish these projects and 100 more. It would be great to make a deal for the wood and find a reasonable avenue for transportation. Any help would be appreciated.

No first hand contacts, but there are people that will even buy the vintage wood "as is where is" aka they do the demolition.

There is a show called salvage dawgs, probably to far away for them to be interested, but its a cool show.

On the forum we discuss scrapping items, making art projects, and getting more than scrap value. Another area to consider is bartering. To me this is the most profitable strategy because everyone comes out a winner. "One mans trash is another mans treasure." I traded 12 telephone poles:



For a 1941 International KB 2.



Taxes on this trade will be due when the truck is sold, either as scrap or as a restored vehicle. The telephone poles were never depreciated.

Post 120 showed a load from a local business. What I did not mention, this was a barter deal because of the low prices. So I traded two cases of beer for six central air units, one window unit, and a water heater.

Happy to see your post this morning Mr. Patriot. The wife and I were watching the storm coverage on TV and I thought your area might have gotten hit. We dodged a bullet again. Baseball size hail and 70mph wind just north of us. Glad we weren't fishing (or camping) out at Waubay.

This is an old hog shed that I removed. Took it down just like the water tanks, from the bottom - up. Four pallets of wood was salvaged. Thanks Miked for the idea.

I was contacted and asked if I wanted to scrap some machinery. I informed the person with low scrap prices I could not afford to scrap on a percentage basis. As we talked I found out he had four Cat D-7 and three D-4 dozers, several scrapers, and misc. steel that needed to be removed so he could sell his property. The dozers range from 15 tons to 20 tons each. That is 125 tons + of metal. The icing on the cake is that they are located within ten miles of the scrap yard.

At the present time I am researching how to sell them for better than scrap price. Problem is because of their size, the logistics makes them hard to sell. Therefore this winter I might be posting a thread on how to "not" scrap a bull dozer. With the amount of torching required, snow on the ground will be a requirement.

Originally Posted by ResourcefulRecycling

We have cut up 4 d7s. Unfortunately the tracks were shot on all of them and they are VERY expensive to fix. Making them almost worthless. They all ran, but parts are not worth much.

I would appreciate any insights and lessons you learned in this project. If you are willing to share on the forum I would like to start a new thread dedicated to this topic. If not I would appreciate any information you are willing to provide in a PM. Thanks.

I know u live in nowhere land but around here a good old fashioned auction would do the trick