man seeing those old vehicles being crushed saddens my heart-are any of the parts available for purchase or are it just crusher time like i heard on Tv?

 

There's probably only so much time to grab up the parts, Junior. I think it's something like a 30 or 60 day window. Clay (or someone else more familiar and hands-on with the process) could say better than I could.

 

Oh that makes me sick. I live close to there, could use doors, some front end cosmetic parts, and a bed, but I lack funds. And these perfectly good vehicles are going to be crushed. I'm sickened.

 

Clay, check out glruffs post in the Delaware Chapters buy and sell thread, he is looking for some seats out of an Explorer. Perhaps you can help him out.

 

Scott there were a couple prima donna Expeditions that came in today but I didn't check on the years. There have been a few 97 up pickups come in all of which are already in the yard. I'll try to check on the Expeditions but they may have already been moved into the yard. There are 2 guys working tonight to get all the vehicles that came in today out into the yard. The owner had a guy on a dozer and a part time truck driver hauling slag to make more room. Some vehicles that normally would go into the parts yard are going straight to the crush pile in order to save space for the CFC buggies.

Guys, the yards have 6 months from the time they get them to sell what they can after that it's crusher time. They are allowed to remove parts and store them for later sale. The owner has plans for this. One thing that hurts smaller yards is they rely on outside contractors for crushing service so their time window is smaller. The company I work for has 2 stationary crushers, 2 road crews with mobile crushers and 1 mobile unit in mothballs. With everything working and no equipment breakdowns they can crush about 250 vehicles a day.

 

I have watched the junk(salvage) yards in Philly change over the years. At one time you went with some tools, looked for the part you needed and some I could use later stuff, took it up front and haggled the price

Then the cataloged yard with radio. You went into the building stepped up to the counter and asked if they had your part(sometimes you could call). If not on hand they radioed out looking for it. They gave you a price, no haggle.

Some of the guys that worked for the yards had cars or trucks they hobbled together from stuff around the yard. Didn't always look good but they usually ran.

Then the yards started putting together their own stuff and the yards used car lot was born.

Then, go into a yard see if there are any tires or wheels around. Now, get there before the used tire sellers, or ask someone you know there to stash some for you.

Then, give me five bucks, you gotta take the wheel to. Now, their 100 bucks new, give me 40, you want the wheel for another 25? Time and business marches on.

 

Thanks Clay, I appreciate it.

 

good morning my Pa friends

 

Morning to my southern neighbors.... Joe, Scrubby, Clay and the rest of the PA gang.

 

good evening P.a hope every ones day was a good one!

 

Evening Folks. I had a fun day today, scored a new "used" bumper for the truck. Much beefier than the original, which will be going up for sale even though it's slightly bent. I think this one was on a rollback, but it was in the yard, so I snagged it. Heavy heavy heavy sucker.

 

Howdy everyone. I got out of the scrap yard a little early tonight. My daughter is staying with me for a few days so I'm on vacation from my main job.

I still have to got the scrap yard tomorrow night though. Until the CFC thing is over there is no such thing as time off.

BTW, the salvage yard associations are now petitioning to get the time limit extended to one year. Tree huggers don't agree. Tree hugger theory is the faster the parts supply dries up the faster the rest of the target vehicles are off the road.

 

Now, I'm all for preserving and protecting the environment, but I'll tell you what. I'd like to run a hose from my exhaust pipe straight into every tree hugging hippies mouth and just make them go away. My 18mpg "environment destroyer" suits me just fine, and it does better than my old gasser did.

 

I totally agree with jesterpgh on this one my old clunker is averaging between 17 to low 20s
good morning Pa stay cool today gonna be a scorcher

 

Good mornin, y'all......
Don't think it's gonna be real hot today, but it sure will be muggy. Rained yesterday, rained last night,......

Oh yeah, yesterday afternoon it rained, and I got this pic of our side yard and the neighbor's house: