Score.

Three landfills truck was so loaded had to by-pass the fourth, might take the trailer for the mixer.

Heavy Metal.

More computers.

Copper.

The treasure, insulated stainless steel tank, the new still.

Nice haul. I was wondering ...

There's the pic with the copper/brass on the tailgate.

Is the thing on the left an instant hot ... hot water heater ?

They can be fun. Sometimes the heat exchanger is all copper.

Originally Posted by Patriot76

I have four of those mixers. Remove the motor and metal and the rest is cast iron. Nice payday.

Any accessories - like the meat grinder.

Originally Posted by alloy2

The large blue insulated tank is an indirect hot water heater with a 60 gallon capacity, my original thought was to install a electric heating element from the bottom of the tank. Know now that I can heat the tank from an outside source is even better.

The outside source could be a wood fired, waste cooking oil fired heater.

It's hard to say about re-using those ones once they hit the junk pile. I had a nice one come in about a month ago but it was a working pull. The plumber's customer had decided to switch from fuel oil to propane as their primary heat & hot water energy source. That's really more the exception than the rule though. The Boiler Mates usually get swapped out because they have hit end of life after 20 + years in service.

Sometimes the heat exchanger is solidly plugged up with minerals on the inside. All depends on the chemistry of the water they are heating.

Sometimes you pull the heat exchanger and it's all plugged up with black mud like stuff on the outside where it's been in contact with the boiler water all those years. Worst ones are where they added non-toxic anti freeze to the heating system. What a mess.

Not saying that you shouldn't re-purpose a boiler mate but it might be a lot of time & trouble for what you gain. You know ... projects pile up, one hits a snag somewhere, gets distracted with something else, and the project never gets completed. Unfinished business is bad for one's self confidence. It feeds on itself to a point where nothing gets done. ( Especially at our age cause we're running out of time. )

It's a quick and easy job to scrap one out though. Pay careful attention to everything it's made from. You might like what you find.

Hear exchanger was corroded at the brass plate, the copper is on this load.

The thin rod with two wire leads, thermo couple platinum wire possibility.

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

I can't believe you can still dig thru the landfill....they would arrest you here

They shouldn't I mean it's junk that really shouldn't be there in the first place it's bad to bury things everything should be recycled�� if everyone recycled there really wouldn't be any trash except for food stuff.

Originally Posted by mike1

They shouldn't I mean it's junk that really shouldn't be there in the first place it's bad to bury things everything should be recycled�� if everyone recycled there really wouldn't be any trash except for food stuff.

It's complicated Mike. It costs us about 4 times more a ton to recycle plastics & cardboard than to just put them in with the trash.

Most of our trash gets trucked to his huge incinerator plant and gets burned. The heat from the fire is used to make electricity.

Food waste is interesting stuff. We get a lot of crab waste at our Transfer Station. Fishermen catch the crabs and sell them to crab pickers who pick out and sell the crabmeat. We started a program where the crab pickers put their shells in a special bin last year. The bins are emptied and the shells get composted. It's working really well so far.

I'm looking to get us into collecting food waste for composting next. Most are in agreement that it's what we want to do. We just have to iron out the details of where the collection bins will be placed.

Anyhow ... Alloy did mention that the province is looking to close it's landfills. We started closing ours here in Maine about 35 years ago. Most cities and towns have a transfer station instead of a landfill now. Most charge a fee for the different things you bring in. A large bag of trash might cost $ 4.00 to dispose of.