He's lucky to have a scrap yard that lets you take stuff back out. There's only one that's close you can do that anymore. Another huge one that's more of an industrial junk yard then a scrap metal yard about 2 ish hours away. Everyone else acts like a one way street, what goes in doesn't come back out. I sure miss the old days before CSR bought most the yards out.
Yep, and I am extremely thankful for it. The one I used to go to 20ish years ago (still my favorite) sold out to Padnos and now you can't go in the yard.
The one I go to now is not as big, but it's 5 miles instead of 20... so there's that.
There are still a couple of yards near me that let you buy their lead scrap for 1/2 the price you can get it online or less. They are dwindling fast, though. One place got the brass from a couple of gun ranges and used to let me sort the barrel for the good ones I wanted and sold them for, idk, a penny each but they finally stopped due to insurance or something.
Very nice. I got a metal set thats rectangular with the chairs at the boy scouts metal drive. I scrounge through and take what I want, then bring down a bunch of short steel from my piles to replace it and add a good bit more as payment lol.
BIL does that with brass, he's got 10s of thousands of rounds he's loaded on his progressive setup filling 5 gallon buckets
. Yrs ago I posted picks here(iirc) of his basement, half was full of bags of coal, he bought a whole semi load. He's down to just a couple yrs left, but said he's prepared to buy another if the prices come down again.
Found the post.Went to my BIL's yesterday to "till his garden", turned into a grading job.
The reason some of it needed grading is he just bought a semi load of coal and drove on some of the yard with a skytrack to get it to the chute.
Figured you guys would enjoy the picture of 40,000 lbs of coal in his basement. He said he wants to get two more lol, no time for scrounging wood as he's only getting 2 days off a month.
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Here's the garden.
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If the piston tube diameter is larger than the original the out time will be a little bit longer but your splitting force will be higher. That is because it will take more hydraulic oil to fill the tube up. Your retract time will be quicker because the piston rod is larger in diameter and will require less fluid to fill the front end of the tube.
Had that truck for at least 15 years...done a lot of work, saved a lot of people's bacon, had a lot of fun.
I figure they are getting much more if I do a swap, otherwise I'd just stock up and bring the short in. That being said, I'd still drop other items off to help out, it's a good cause.
Sure does suck, I really enjoy running around in them looking for something to fall on or to fall on me lol. We have LKQ junkyards here, you sign a waver and pay a couple bucks to get in, then run around and find what you need. It's worth it just to go walk around for a few hrs, nice as going to the park
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I never have to work on my Stihl's.
Seriously Jim I'm not familiar with the 251. I have a 250 but the nuts are external. I think I may have used a 5/16 nut driver on a couple I worked on.
They're holding the handle
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