Scrapyard Special

[Station]

Thought I'd share this, the chaps up at the scrapyard sold me a head today. They have basically used an angle grinder on everything apart from the head itself. Rubber pipes, manifolds - even the wiring had been angle grind'd!

 

 

An absolute mess!

[Claypole]

Like one local to me - cut through the driveshafts and rip the engine out with the forks on the "tractor"...

[VWPowered]

thats shit's brutal

[Des]

I remember when scrappys would have a 60 odd year old crane, for picking up a car, bit of cutting around the engine with the oxy-acet, and then shake the fucker out. Years ago my friend had a Suzuki X5 motorbike, he went to city spares, a breakers in Dublin, for a crankshaft, they chopped it out of the casings with an axe.

[greengartside]

Once went to a scrappys outside Norwich, was after a 'sports' steering wheel for my MkV Escort, found an Orion Ghia with said wheel. Would not budge off it's mounting column so instead of tapping it gently with a hammer to loosen it, yard owner produces an industrial disc cutter and hacks the steering column clean off. Still have flashbacks of just yellow sparks flying everywhere as the disc cutter did it's thing...

[greengartside]

No, the shock of the wheel being cut off made it drop off the column!

[Guest]

Once went to a scrappys outside Norwich, was after a 'sports' steering wheel for my MkV Escort, found an Orion Ghia with said wheel. Would not budge off it's mounting column so instead of tapping it gently with a hammer to loosen it, yard owner produces an industrial disc cutter and hacks the steering column clean off.

Memories of the time I found an Escort mk3 convertible with the RS turbo steering wheel in my local yard. I wanted it for my 1.6L so unscrewed the centre bolt... but the design of steering lock on these means you can't take the wheel off without the key. I got the hacksaw out, cut through the column shaft where it was covered by the plastic indicator canceller lug, wiggled the wheel off and cheekily pushed the severed tip of the column shaft back so as at a glance it looked like it hadn't been destroyed. Just hope that some poor bastard didn't subsequently spend all afternoon carefully unbolting the column only to find that it was in two bits

[Spottedlaurel]

I remember when scrappys would have a 60 odd year old crane, for picking up a car, bit of cutting around the engine with the oxy-acet, and then shake the fucker out.

I saw them do pretty much that with a Micra not so long ago, at a yard near Ipswich. The grab held the engine and just waved and smashed the car around until it fell away, leaving the engine in the grab’s jaws. Then they repeatedly picked up and dropped a weight on the Micra’s shell until it was flattened.

[FredTransit]

I was stripping a Mk2 SWB once, noting the perfect grille and headlights on the way in, but it was raining so thought I would have the bits from the inside whilst I waited for it to stop. Had my head under the dash when BANG! was smacked head on by the fork lift, thank god it wasn't at the bottom of a stack. You can imagine my erm, dismay, as not only was I inside the van, but the front end (which I was prepared to pay good money for) was wiped out at a stroke. Some of the animals who work for scrap yards are proper oxygen thieves!

[Timewaster]

Some of the animals who work for scrap yards are proper oxygen thieves!

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[FredTransit]

Yeah, and sometimes you pay a lot and get well paid monkeys.....

[Rusty Pelican]

I remember when scrappys would have a 60 odd year old crane, for picking up a car, bit of cutting around the engine with the oxy-acet, and then shake the fucker out. ,

My local scrappy still does it this way , watched him take a 5 pot Audi engine and box out in around 6 mins , hes got a home made hydralic jaw thingy that splits the engine and gearbox apart , have to go in seperate containers now , great to watch all this whilst drinking his tea and not buying anything .

[Lankytim]

I think my ideal job would be working at a scrapyard.. you know, snaffling up rare shite for pennies and generally smashing stuff up.Yeah. I think I could really go for that lifestyle.

[bigstraight6]

I have a very traditional style yard close to me called Newnham car spares, it's a great place with cars piled on top of each other, a ramshackle collection of old sheds with shelves groaning under the weight of cylinder heads, alternaters and other stuff, an ancient Coles crane in the corner of the yard, and the owner Roger can talk the back legs off a donkey. The number of times I've been up there of a Saturday morning after a part saying to 'er indoors "I won't be long' only to get locked into conversation with Roger and return hours later, sometimes without the part I went up for You can even remove stuff from cars yourself! It ought to be designated a National heritage site really

[Mr Lobster]

Used to be one like that up here - based in an old quarry. Cars had been there since the beginning of time and it was fascinating to wander around. Used to buy a lot of stuff in there too. Last time I went it looked like it had changed hands though. Now you couldn't get beyond the barrier as the owner wouldn't let you in to the actual yard. He would go and see if they had the part you wanted and then remove it for you.Wheres the fun in that?Haven't been back since

[bigstraight6]

Used to be one like that up here - based in an old quarry.

The yard near me is also in an old quarry!

[Mr Lobster]

One I'm thinking of is in Lancashire so certainly ain't the same!

 

Edit - here it is!

 

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