Here is my load for the day... being the yards are closed on weekends, I loaded the gooseneck until the springs flattened, and brought it home then grabbed the other truck and trailer and went and got it loaded. There's still enough to load both trailers again at this location
Looks might be deceiving; there is a 4x4 frame w/suspension and axles on bottom, with another frame with front suspension and cab stacked on top, then a truck bed thrown on back of that frame, the bed is full of stuff cleaned out from the barn and weeds and truck parts, and a transmission and transfer case in the very front of it. By the way it pulled I would say about 6k lbs. of load. The other trailer is a 12' single axle, we put 3 small block Chevy engines on it, a transfer case, an old garden tractor, a big old a/c unit and a bunch of TV antenna tower sections. There's still enough pieces to make another complete truck, and enough extra stuff to stuff both trailers again, I am pretty sure.
Thank the good lord for a tractor with front end loader that they have on site
The loose core items and non ferrous stuff that I got just in this first load is enough to fill two wheelbarrows. Even more to come I believe, plus a lot of core parts and non ferrous to swipe from the loaded trailers tomorrow, huge radiator(s) in the a/c unit, a brass radiator on the truck, and some core items, plus a brand new never used Edelbrock high rise intake to pull off one of the engines. I kinda feel bad throwing the engines away but I don't know that I want to sit on them forever either. The garden tractor is an old Sears that is somewhat collectable, the engine is said to be in running condition and I have use for the engine so i'll pull it and sell some parts from the tractor or sell it whole (garden tractors is one of my hobbies).
On the way to get the first load I dropped off my trash at the landfill including 5 TV carcasses I had stripped. I noticed someone dumped a diasassembled TV into the dumpster and left the big copper coil on the back of the tube, and the big copper wire that holds the tube into the housing, all that laying in the open in the dumpster. I was in the process of pulling those parts off and a county employee yelled at me and told me I wasn't allowed to take anything from the dumpster. I was kinda pissed off that we PAY to dump stuff there and they act like they are all about recycling, yet are throwing away precious metals and not letting someone recycle them, instead they will bury it in the ground. Not the biggest deal but it really aggravated me. Oh well at least he let me throw 5 TV tubes in the dumpster LOL
More pics to come maybe tomorrow and for sure after I get the next loads (probably Tuesday night or wednesday)
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Dream on, that's by far the nicest bed I've ever seen and I totally lucked into it and got a heck of a deal on it! There isn't one spot of rust not even on the fender lips, no mud anywhere, one small ding, not a square inch is bent or beat, it is 98% flawless! I was ecstatic to stumble upon it and I traded a rusty 70's shortbed for it (not bad rusted, but needed a some work), which was the original bed to my truck...
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