Ditchdigger 
Well, "eventually" came a little earlier than I expected.
I remember a story I read once, maybe in the Reader's Digest "Humor in Uniform" section or something similar. In a nutshell, an Army officer wanted to know how much of a certain type of equipment his unit had been assigned. He sent a message to his C.O., who didn't know, so he sent a message up the chain, where nobody knew, until it got to the Pentagon itself. Somebody at the Pentagon sent a message back down through the channels, to where it reached the officer who had had the question in the first place, and instructed him to inventory his equipment, and report the findings. The results went back up the line to the Pentagon, and back down, to where, in about a month, he recieved the answer to his original question, which of coures, matched perfectly with what he'd inventoried.
A totally stripped out shell of an S-10 Blazer, as described in the opening post, weighs out at a somewhat disappointing 420 lbs.
Anybody who'd like to report that back to me, feel free.
I drug it out of the woods, torched it across the roof and floor at the back of the door openings, squashed the front roof, floor, and firewall flat, stuffed them inside the back half, and picked the whole mess up into the back of my pickup. At the yard, it never even hit the ground. The guy on the crane picked it up and put it directly into an outbound 18 wheeler, and by the time I got weighed and paid, I followed it out the gate.
It did pay as "sheet iron", when I was expecting shredder price, which was nice, but if I'd had to pay for the excavator time (only about 1/2 hour, total) involved in dragging it out of the woods and picking it up into the back of my truck, it would've been a losing proposition. As it was, meh, it was about a break even deal, compared to anything else I'd have done with the time I spent.
Thanks to everybody who ventured a guess.
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