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Have you ever hauled a heavier load back from iron?

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Today I hauled in what was left of my 1975 K20. The axles, springs, engine, and many other pieces have been used on a multitude of other trucks, and there just wasn't much left.

While waiting in line for the scale, a guy pulled up behind me dragging a 1977 K20 with a tow rope. Turns out the ignition switch went bad, and he was just gonna scrap it. So I offered to buy it.

I dumped my load, he pulled the truck across the scale. It weighed up for $562. We loaded it back onto my trailer, he took the wheels and tires, and I cut him a check for $500. I only got $357 for the load I delivered there. First time a trip to the scrap iron yard has ever cost me money.

Here is the remains of the 1975 K20.

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Here is my "new" 1977 K20

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Now to go strip it.....

Martin
 
I know the local scrap guy around here pretty good and he'll let me take em home and get what I want and charges me .20 a pound for the weight difference.
 
Back in the day, steel was way cheap, and it was better to haul our worn out and rusted out machines to the dump.
Nobody wanted to make the trip. So I would often volunteer.
They finally banned me from making the run.

I would often bring back all kinds of stuff. They used to dump all kinds of electronic equipment, and often I would fix it up and either give it away or use it myself.

The final straw was the day I hauled a full truckload of equipment, 4 big machines, and brought back a full truckload of equipment plus a small trailer that I had scrounged.
And it was full too.

That was in the late 70s, and I still have some of the equipment.
I have two "All American 5" tube type radios that still work.

Anybody here know what that was?

Not to mention my bullet hole clock that I found in the woods in Orlando when I was going to college.
Its a flip type digital alarm clockradio that someone had thrown away and shot several times with a .22.
Somehow missed all the vital organs, its still running today.
 
Fordum said:
I have two "All American 5" tube type radios that still work.

Anybody here know what that was?
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If I had a dollar for every time I did a Google search after reading a Fordum post....:rolleyes:

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79rustyk10 said:
Damn youre gonna strip that? Around here thats a nice driver.
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Oh, it is too nice to strip really, but it is an automatic. If it was a 4 speed, I would have asked for a title. I honestly have too many of these things the way it is.

I currently own:

1982 K30 3+3 - 454, SM465/NP205, 3.73, 36x12.50x16.5
1985 K5 - 350, TH350/NP208, 3.08, 31x10.5x15
1987 V10 - 350, SM465/NP208, 3.42, 31x10.5x15
1988 V10 Suburban - 350, SM465/NP208, 4.10, 37x12.50x16.5
1990 K5 - 350, SM465/NP203/NP205, 4.56, 325/85R16
1995 Carpenter 71 passenger school bus.

....and that is just plated and insured.

I also have:

1976 K10 - needs reassembled
1976 K10 - pulled the engine, and rear axle, need to pull the tranny/transfer case and front axle, and then haul to iron
197x K20 - no engine, pulled the SM465/NP205, need to pull the axles, and haul to iron
1977 C30 - need to pull the 454 and haul to iron
1977 K20 -(the one I picked up today) needs stripped and hauled to iron
1982 Camaro - need to strip and haul to iron
1983 Camaro Z28 - needs reassembled
1988 V10 Suburban - pulled the engine, bad tranny, need to strip.
1992 Camaro RS - needs stripped and hauled to iron

I have recently hauled off:

1975 K20
1979 K20
1981(1982?) K10

So yeah, I really don't need anymore. Although a buddy called me about a 1977 K20 yesterday for $400 that needs . . . . . . . . . .

Martin
 
need a picture of that "bullet hole" radio J

pretty sure it's in your terms of agreement
 
Actually thats a picture of a crystal set......The AA5 had tubes. 5 of them in fact, hence the origin of the name.
The beauty of the design was that the filament voltages of the 5 tubes and the dial light if it had one, added up to pretty much 120 volts.
So, you did not need the heavy and expensive filament transformer.
Thus they could be made dirt cheap, and were.

One interesting thing about tube radios, it was generally considered the more tubes, the better quality of the radio.
In some cases, depending on which tubes it was, that was true.

However, you often needed resistors in various circuits, so a lot of radio makers came up with some interesting tube numbers.
If you looked at them, you would realize that there were no plates, or anything else except for a large coil inside a glass vacuum tube.
This was simply a wire wound resistor. Usually selected for the current so that it would glow under load.

It could have been replaced with a couple of watt wirewound resistor, but because it was a in a vacuum tube, it could be counted as a "tube" and a higher price charged.

You might find a 12 tube radio with only 6 or 7 active tubes in it.

If I had a dollar for every time I did a Google search after reading a Fordum post....:rolleyes:
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Think of it as an almost free education.
Like I told a fellow one time. " I taught you everything I know, and you still don't know a darn thing..."
 
need a picture of that "bullet hole" radio J

pretty sure it's in your terms of agreement
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That one may take a while. Its packed up, I'm pretty sure, in a storage building I am paying way too much for.
Long story.
After my father died, I was stuck with two houses. The farm where I preferred to live, and my official residence in PC.
After a year or two, of commuting, my best friend and his wife wanted to move to PC, so I packed up most of my stuff except for my bedroom/laboratory/electronics lair and they moved in with all their furniture.
Pretty sure the clock went into storage with the rest of the furniture. But I will look the next time I am at the house...
 
Gee,I though I had too many vehicles!!...:eek:...I gues your town dont come knockin when they see more than one unregistered vehicle in the yard,huh??..I have been dreading a visit from the code enforcement folks,I only have 2 in the yard now--one is supposed to be the limit!...

Too many times I have gone to the landfill and came home with MORE than I dragged there to dispose of!...ditto for the scrapyard--I'll junk something and without fail I'll see a very desireable item calling my name from the scrap heap,and it ended up coming home with me--after all,I now had a "hole" to fill the item I dropped off left in my garage or yard,and I just cant stand having a clutter free garage or yard..:rolleyes:...like Fordum,some of the stuff I still have I dragged home decades ago...:doah:...the only time I feel I'm not a "hoarder" is when I watch "American Pickers" and see some of the "collections" the people they stop to visit have--MAN !!--I cant beleive what some folks down south have piled up on acres of land,in old busses and buildings,that you have to CRAWL in ,they are packed so full!...
I would be just like them if it weren't for the "eyesore" laws I suppose!..

Some of my best "scores" were made at the dump or scrapyards,and junkyards--flea markets too,but there you must pay for them,I loved dragging "free" things home I could sell later after a little tinkering or keep to use myself...more than once I went to "cash in scrap" and ended up paying MORE to own what treasure I found at the scrapard!...must be a disease with no cure--the older I get the more I want!--but its getting tough to get anything from the dump or scrapyards now,they wont let anyone "pick" there anymore...
 
I live on a farm. Other than the old man bitching about them, no one complains. The nearest neighbor is a mile a way. We get away with a lot here. On Labor Day weekend we are having a 40 kegger.

Martin
 
82355 said:
1982 Camaro - need to strip and haul to iron
1983 Camaro Z28 - needs reassembled
1992 Camaro RS - needs stripped and hauled to iron
Martin
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Any Chance you would sell some parts? Depending on what engine/tranny they were that is:whistle:
 
82355 said:
On Labor Day weekend we are having a 40 kegger.

Martin
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Damn, my fraternity used to do a big back to school party with 15-20 or so at the beginning of the fall semester, but 40, how many people you have for that?
 
It's an all day deal. Starts at 7:00ish in the morning. 36 team sand volleyball tournament, serve a lunch and supper (hamburgers, hot dogs and the such), and have a band at night.

Martin
 
Looks like a damn good time. Beer, hot women, sand volleyball, hot women, band, hot women, oh and hot women, whats better?
 
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