looking for new partner

Originally Posted by olddude

looking for new female partner for profit and fun. must love scrapping. must have truck and trailer.

P.S. send photos of truck and trailer.

Dude when I hooked up with my sweetie back in 2002 she had a 35 acer parcel filled in every nook and cranny with scrap, some buried under the Blackberry bushes where you could not see it. I hauled out of there for a year and a half before we moved over to the 5 acer parcel where there was even more heavy equipment.

The Terex cat almost got me into trouble, book said the machine weighed 55,000 lbs, Richmond steel had dropped a trailer with 4 ft sides the driver said I could fill up to the top of the sides, When I was about half ways the tires on the trailer were looking a bit squat and decided to call her quits. I still had plenty of cat scrap laying on the ground, before the driver got there to pick up the trailer the front landing gear had sunk into the ground far enough that he could not back under the fifth wheel pin.

I had a small excavator with a thumb on it that I used to load my scrap, anyhow I had to dig a nice ramp under the front of the trailer so the driver could pin up, now that he;s under the pin hooks up the air lines and were standing there talking when the biggest bang and a cloud of smoke is in the air, the air bag blew on the tractor.

With the air bag blown there was no way of telling how much weight was on the trailer, I told him I thought it was well over the legal limit then showed him around the scales in Flood, when he got tot he scrap yard turns out he was 12,000 over.

The largest piece of scrap there that I cut up was an old Bucyrus with a KT 450 Cummins we sold the engine to a guy in California for some decent change, when I cut the counter weight free of the crane it just went thump when it hit the ground didn't even bounce. The counter weight was a solid peice of cast iron, I had nothing large enough to laod it and had my neighbor come over with his loader.

When Jimmy got his grapple under the weight the loader lifted off the ground trying to pick this monster up, any how Jimmy signals the truck to back up the trailer, then stop just in front of the loader with its arse in the air.. Jimmy hammers the throttle and I'll be darned all four wheels on the loader touch ground and the weight lifts off the ground and the loader lurches forward depositing the weight onto the trailer. A perfect day.

That counter weight weighed 20,000 lbs and Amix Salvage in Surrey was not too pleased about receiving it. They probably just buried it in the yard somewhere, it takes some real work to break up something that large.

During the time of clearing up both yard sites we now had some equipment of our own and ended up hauling in more scrap into the 5 acer parcel. I would stock pile the cars then crush once a year, it was the non ferrous that kept us afloat.

Pat and I are still together and rely of scrap to keep us alive.

The only thing I miss the most is my old Michigan loader that I paid $500.00, this thing sat for 12 years and fired right up, aired up the tires and drove it home. After a couple of months the injectors packed it in, bought some used ones from a Native guy over on Seabird Island for $20.00 out of an old grader. That 4 cylinder screaming Jimmy did a lot of work around the yard. It would pick up two cars, and could stack them 3 high.

I hope you find what your looking for olddude.

I have to say that Gus has some of the most entertaining posts I've come across in awhile.

And best of luck olddude. I hope you find someone like Gus' special ladyfriend.

Yep, hope she's got a really nice truck with a good rack,,,

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Yep, hope she's got a really nice truck with a good rack,,,

lmao!

LOL

Option #1 - Truck has a nice rack, but the girl doesn't?

Option #2 - What if the Girl has a nice rack, but the truck doesn't and is broke down? (Oh and she won't let you scrap it! LMAO)

Which one would you choose?

Originally Posted by BiggerHammer

LOL

Option #1 - Truck has a nice rack, but the girl doesn't?

Option #2 - What if the Girl has a nice rack, but the truck doesn't and is broke down? (Oh and she won't let you scrap it! LMAO)

Which one would you choose?

Option #2. I am not all for looks, but if she is a keeper, then great. Cant find to many of those, but trucks you can find all day long!

Ladies - if you had to pick.....

the big "truck" or the big heart ?

Originally Posted by BiggerHammer

LOL

Option #1 - Truck has a nice rack, but the girl doesn't?

Option #2 - What if the Girl has a nice rack, but the truck doesn't and is broke down? (Oh and she won't let you scrap it! LMAO)

Which one would you choose?

Option 1. I love my wife, but the girls come a dime a dozen. A (free?) good truck with nice rack is hard to find.

Originally Posted by Scrapette

Ladies - if you had to pick.....

the big "truck" or the big heart ?

I married the BIG HEART!! Sometime I question if I should have went for the truck!!... LMAO