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BPratt said:
I saw one at the scrapyard a few years ago.

It was big corporate scrapyard with a no picking policy. The search continues…
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That really stinks, what kind of junkyard lets you walk through it and not grab something if you pay them for it?
 
Steve Hoch said:
That really stinks, what kind of junkyard lets you walk through it and not grab something if you pay them for it?
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Liability. On the other hand the new scrap yards are clean, organized and safer. They pay better.

Not as much fun as the old school places where anything goes as long as you got cash.
 
Probably similar to the way the old pick and pull automotive bone yards were. Just walk in, find the parts on the vehicles you want, remove them and take them up to the office and haggle on a price, which was usually very reasonable. Now, they won't hardly let you look out the back door into the salvage yard. A lot of that has to do with liability, but I think a lot of places can employ a couple guys to strip cars down and then they sell them on line. That means that headlight from a 2008 Toyota Corolla is going to cost you $40 instead of $10.
 
I was hired to work in a big commercial (corporate) woodworking shop many many years ago.

It was different than what I was used to- there were only a few table saws and they didn’t get used much- there was a big room in the middle of the shop with a cnc- two operators would bring in skids of panels- plywood, melamine, flame etc. and cut all the parts. If a 4’x8’ sheet of plywood was scheduled to make one 24” x 36” cabinet side, the rest of the sheet was loaded on a skid to be discarded.

When a job box came back from a job, all the miscellaneous boxes of hardware, cleaners, materials was dumped in the trash.

It was explained to me that the corporation determined it was more cost effective to dump everything rather than handle it again.

I couldn’t quite wrap my head around that, but as the years went by and I moved up the food chain and started to see the bigger picture, it made sense.

I know it probably still sounds wasteful to many of you.

Later, when the corporation determined that our East Coast shop cost too much and would be closed down, the head of our location gave me the job of clearing out the 200k s.f. facility before turning it back over to the owners of the building.

They hired a crew to dismantle and remove everything- that first morning I had to talk to everyone and tell them no picking. We had to trash everything. It was a pretty sad job to have. Still a little haunted by it.

Fwiw
 
about 15 years ago, I lived in a town where they had an outfit that built pre-fab homes. They routinely put scraps out for people to grab and they did grab them. lots of 2x4's that were a foot to 6 foot long, decent sized pieces of OSB and play wood and other scraps. They would put out a big pile and it would be gone by the end of the day. I think some people simply used it to burn in wood stoves and stuff like that, but at least it didn't wind up in a landfill. I am not sure if they still do this or not.....probably not.
 
Bruce said:
Probably similar to the way the old pick and pull automotive bone yards were. Just walk in, find the parts on the vehicles you want, remove them and take them up to the office and haggle on a price, which was usually very reasonable. Now, they won't hardly let you look out the back door into the salvage yard. A lot of that has to do with liability, but I think a lot of places can employ a couple guys to strip cars down and then they sell them on line. That means that headlight from a 2008 Toyota Corolla is going to cost you $40 instead of $10.
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I remember going to one of those in Florida when I was in high school to find parts for my 1971 Plymouth Cricket - a joke of a car. The place was called "Snake Road Salvage" and had a ton of old cars slowly sinking into the sand. I think they are still there, but like you said, they have classed up the operations and certainly raised the prices.
 
Bruce said:
about 15 years ago, I lived in a town where they had an outfit that built pre-fab homes. They routinely put scraps out for people to grab and they did grab them. lots of 2x4's that were a foot to 6 foot long, decent sized pieces of OSB and play wood and other scraps. They would put out a big pile and it would be gone by the end of the day. I think some people simply used it to burn in wood stoves and stuff like that, but at least it didn't wind up in a landfill. I am not sure if they still do this or not.....probably not.
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Wausau Homes?
 
There is a fish food plant near us that puts it’s unwanted shipping pallets out for people to take if they want. I use them to pile firewood on to dry and to keep things up off the concrete floor in my shed which tends to sweat and ruin some things. Better than trashing them.
 
Weber kettle grills- are they stainless or plated?

Is it possible to clean up or it doesn’t really matter for grilling?

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This is a grill from Facebook marketplace that I have been watching, wondering if it’s worth it.
 
LMichaels said:
Chrome plated. I've always hated those grates due to getting little flakes of chrome in your food. Yuk
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The grill grate in the photo looks trashed.

If I bought a brand new Weber kettle would it be possible to keep the plated chineseium grill grates from ending up the same way?
 
Bob Erdman said:
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That same grill was posted on Craigslist last night around 11pm.

When I got up for work today around 4am I thought about responding, but I really don’t need another grill/ project and it’s too nice a day for driving 4 hours round trip.

But yeah, looks in good condition and $35, nice.
 
John_NJ said:
That same grill was posted on Craigslist last night around 11pm.

When I got up for work today around 4am I thought about responding, but I really don’t need another grill/ project and it’s too nice a day for driving 4 hours round trip.

But yeah, looks in good condition and $35, nice.
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I live about 10 minutes away. I was tempted but held off because there is another grill near by that I may get when the asking price drops.
 
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