I want to clarify for those that didn’t hear this part, parts don’t sell in this area and I don’t have time to list them online. Rust free doesn’t mean anything here because everything is rust free. This isn’t my first rodeo, and believe me when I say I’ve tried the parts thing before.
As an Auto mecanic for a living, most dont take care of their car/truck or even want it to last forever. Our society is a disposable one these days. Trucking vehicles to the rust belt takes a lot of time and $ to flip them and profit margin would not be worth it. If people want rust free parts or vehicles, they need to drive and go get it themselves.
My buddy keeps a Ford 55 step side running as his work truck. His transmission went out, so we went to the salvage yard. The old guy looks thru some papers and says yep, got one still on the truck. So he takes us out, flips it on its side, takes a torch and cuts the tranny out. It falls into the mud, we drag it out and he pays $150 for it. We had it in his truck by the next day. Magic!
@@gatorb8 absolutely. And when he’s crushing it for only a couple hundred dollars? I mean it would cost what $500 to ship to me (this is not accurate and just an example). So $500, fix it up and it would be worth a lotttt more. Especially since everything where I live is RUSTED out hardcore. So a rust free truck ? Ya worth that $500 shipping. People do this all the time where I live … they make stupid money
I used to work at a salvage yard. Inventorying each part worth selling, gave me the opportunity to be in and around each vehicle for about 45 minutes. The amount of cash and change I’d find is unbelievable. We had a Mercedes trashed by a semi that had $1000 cash in it. Finders keepers. 😁
I work in the towing and recovery field when we get abandoned cars that don't sell at auction and are too broken or not worth anything generally I get to go through them prepping for the scrap yard
I owned a salvage yard for years and can tell you that anything that came from an impound lot or salvage pool rarely came in with articles worth much. Maybe some loose change here and there or some old rap CDs. Most had already been picked by wrecker drivers or impound employees.
it's a shame to see as many vehicles destroyed on a regular basis. it would be awesome if they had an improved version of a junkyard that disassembles vehicles to repair others instead of crushing both
Noticed that too. Yards forever toss good shit. Just bought back a vintage bike ($6) I just listed on eBay for $300 and bought a half ton hand truck that retails $680 for $19.
6:18 That is a real shame to see that truck being crushed you should see half of these pick ups up here in the northern part of the states wheel wells rusted out under 50,000 miles frames got holes in them by 100,000 miles.
Silas, I was buying steel off cuts at my favorite steel yard a few years ago and operating next door was a shredder finishing off cars, trucks and white goods. It was maybe 100 ft from me. I was concentrating on what I was doing when all of a sudden BBBOOOOOOOOOOOM. I must have jumped 5 ft in the air. Turned around smoke and flames coming out of the shredder. Maybe a propane tank inside a dishwasher. But it soldiered on. Man it was a surprise.
Around here, once the title is burned at the scrapyard scale, you can't sell parts off it. You have to pop the trunk with tbe loader because people load it up with cinder blocks and such to make it weigh more. Tires go right through the shredder and are separated into what they call fluff. You end up driving on it at the landfill
This truck needed me 5 months ago, new trannie new 5 liter v8 and this would bd a sweet ride. People are nuts getting rid of this! Yeah I’m 74 and growing up we did this all the time. Wish I was nearer. Shipping this truck would be about $700 to Virginia. If I was still living in Maine, this no rust truck is like gold!!!!
Spent a large part of my teenage summers working in my Mom's boyfriends salvage yard (don't call it a junkyard!). I was too young to drive, but was operating a front end loader on a hill full of rows of cars. We had the first Honda 3 wheelers and then 4 wheelers. By the end I was running the crusher. And I pulled lots of part. Lots and lots of parts. Tough job but I learned a ton of skills I have used throughout my life, and am forever grateful for the experience. Use to love finding stuff in trunks and glove boxes.
I don't remember a Honda 3 wheel car only the little ATV.s? First Honda cars we saw in England were the little 360 boxes and that lovely little 600 egg shaped one.
I had some guy abandon a ford car on my property years ago. I waited a few years for him to come back for it, but he never did. When i finally offered it to a friend of mine when her car blew up, i decided to look through it before she came for it. In the trunk was about a thousand dollarsworth of brand new mechanic's tools. Wrench sets and multiple socket sets. Pittsburgh forge impact socket sets, screwdriver sets and on and on. 35 years later....i'm still using those tools!
Back in the 70's my neighbors scrapped cars they would load the flat bed and run a firehose in them to pick up the weight when the seats and upholstery got soaked.
Man! Watching you get ready to crunch those trucks, and I'm thinking "I could fix em!!" Shame to scrap em when the body looks in such good condition. Definitely not the job for me. I'd want to keep too many of them!
I've always thought the same thing. I've seen cars and trucks come into the pick a part that I used to frequent in Greer, SC that I would love to fix up, but ultimately end up in the crusher. Oh well, if not for the pick a part, my daily would have been in a junkyard.
A friend of mine's uncle owned a scrap yard. One of the employees found several hundred dollars in a car once. However, his productivity cratered afterward, because he spent too much time searching the cars rather than working, so he had to eventually be fired.
I hate crush yards. All cars should have to go through a pull yard first so the good parts have a chance at getting salvaged. There should be a chance for people to buy the car whole as well before it's put into the pull yard
my friend found over 5,000 in cash in a trunk of a car so u never know what u will find i have found many tools in cars at the wrecker . then i use to work right next door to a big scrap yard and they would sell us any car they got for 200 to 300 we got a lot of good cars from them.
Always something cool about scrap yards. All those cars took people on family holidays etc. Just abaonded and got something newer. Some cool looking cars
I can't believe you crushed those nice looking trucks, don't see any rust on them. I live in northern Michigan and vehicles rot out fast around here. A lot of them have low mileage on them but the bodies are shit. I got a 2001 Chevy s-10 4x4 with only 82,000 miles on it from my dad and the body is about to fall off of it. Really sucks what salt does to vehicles around here. Wish I could find a rust free body like the trucks you crushed.
Oh man! That body on that red truck was in great shape! It's a shame nobody wanted it! I only say that because my husband has been wanting a truck for a while now. He had a truck but there was a recall on an engine part and it was stolen right out of the dealerships bay!!! He was just sick! That was 21 years ago right after he started dialysis. He hasn't had one since 😔
You wouldn't have to take a loss if you tap on the converter and see if it sounds hollow if it does not sound hollow that means the converter is full tap on it with a hammer or something
I cried little when crushed that "rust free Red Truck" dam... must be in one rich area. when truck like that can be scrapped. unless something obvious like "flood damage" those tend to smell. you crush dreams should be your title./
@Sarah cool Yet the Japanese have better craftsmanship and specific standards for their cars. Unlike americans, they mass produce cars and dont care if they break down as soon as you leave the lot.
I crushed cars in Tx and Mn for years. It was 20 years ago and watching your video really makes me miss it. I am a machinist now. I see you have a remote for your crusher and you seem like a one man band. I would love to take a week or two and come and give you a hand throwing tires in cars, cutting cats, keeping stuff out of your way and more importantly stay out of your way. I would do it for nothing and almost pay you to do it. I know how it is with help. Trust me i know. I ran 3 crushers. One was in Southern Tex. One in Centra Texas. Then me. By myself with the 3rd crusher because i rather work alone then with incompetence. I would load my car on the trailer with the loader and go to where ever. Then drive my car back for the crusher. I would crush the cars myself and even though the company had plenty of trucks i had a company use my cars for a back haul. At the end of the day i made more then the other 2 crushers combined. The owner of the company wanted me to take it over completely but when i said the first thing i would do is auction off everything but the new freightliner, the new john deere loader and the custom built 52' lowboy ( could haul 3 stacks w/out much if any hanging over). I said i could make a fine living just smashing in the tops and hauling them to the mill. He wanted me to make the business bigger instead so we parted ways. I know a long message. Seriously though if you didnt mind a guy throwing stuff for you and hanging out let me know. I am in no way in need of a job or money. I can pay for a room. I cannot think of a better vacation. You could tell me to get the hell off your property after 30 minutes. I would leave no problem. I know if someone approached me with something like this i might reply and say no, but i doubt they would even get that. Hopefully you are not that brutal. Thank you.
Those are some great finds. I'm astounded at the some of the things people leave in their vehicles. I have to ask, what's the benefit of crushing the vehicles instead of parting them out? I presume it must be quicker money to sell them as scrap.
Used Auto Parts on Craigslist adds by owner in my area stay there forever . There's a picture of a Jeep the guys been trying to sell for parts for nearly two years .
I swear they throw away so many really good cars in your area. I can't believe it. With the price of used cars over the top in our area, I can't believe that those are getting scrapped.
Old American cars suck, youd be betger off throwing these away since they are gonna put you in debt since they always break on you, thats why you dont see him crushing many Japanese cars.
Should put a box off to the side for all those old games an stuff you find some of them have some good value to them I used to collect them at the junk yard I was at for a while made a few bucks
Nah, If you know anything about cars, American cars, especially the older ones would make low income people in debt, since they break down all the time and are expensive to repair, unlike Japanese cars, even old Japanese cars are better than new American cars.
Good running cars don't get scrapped. Cars in junkyards were towed to a mechanic who told the owner it would cost $6500 to put a new engine in their fifteen year old car that books for $3500 in mint RUNNING condition!! Then it gets hauled to the crusher who pays them sixty-five bucks for it.
Sad to see that F150 and those buicks die. I had a couple of Lesabres with the 3.8 that were my gas sipping commuters for my 100 mile R/T to work. 28 - 29 mpg!
When the weathers not too hot, not too cold but just right, this is referred to as "Goldilocks" weather (remember the story of Goldilocks and The Three Bears?).
over here in the netherlands you cannot even bring a car in as scrap metal if the tires are still on , same with fridges washing machines and dryers (they want the people to bring them intoo a recycle center)
Yep, that's exactly what we used to do, we used to shove tires in the cars before we crush them, and we used to even throw a couple trash bags in there! Lol. He knew the people at Smiths, which is a huge scrap yard and recycling yard in Washington DC, they are very well known in the business.
Those hard hats come in handy. They are good for keeping from getting your ears sunburned to keeping the bird ship off your head. Not to mention something heavy cracking your cranium.
I live in a relatively small place as far as population goes so it's getting harder and harder to find crown vics and nearly impossible to find MGM's and town cars so it kills me to see decent ones get destroyed.
It depends on the yard, everyone is diff. Though if you find a yard that don't pull parts. I've found they generally let parts go cheap. If u pull them
I want to clarify for those that didn’t hear this part, parts don’t sell in this area and I don’t have time to list them online. Rust free doesn’t mean anything here because everything is rust free. This isn’t my first rodeo, and believe me when I say I’ve tried the parts thing before.
Car GMC
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We're you from? Sounds like 5.3s might be had for cheap?
@@jakevogey1540 right!!! same with the 6.0!! especially with the ls swap craze!!!
Too many car gone waste likes trash that can be fix resale
Crazy to think these cars were someone's pride and joy when they drove them off the lot for the first time
Yep.
I think the same thing every time. Shiny and new, proud family.
Yes for sure. Seems there is a time for using and a time for replacing!
As an Auto mecanic for a living, most dont take care of their car/truck or even want it to last forever. Our society is a disposable one these days. Trucking vehicles to the rust belt takes a lot of time and $ to flip them and profit margin would not be worth it. If people want rust free parts or vehicles, they need to drive and go get it themselves.
If the vehicles were repossessed, they were not too concerned about keeping them.
My buddy keeps a Ford 55 step side running as his work truck. His transmission went out, so we went to the salvage yard. The old guy looks thru some papers and says yep, got one still on the truck. So he takes us out, flips it on its side, takes a torch and cuts the tranny out. It falls into the mud, we drag it out and he pays $150 for it. We had it in his truck by the next day. Magic!
Junkyards were the amusement parks of my childhood
so many good cars.crushed
Had some fun at Caps junkyard growing up in Lynn Massachusetts 👍
Yep!!! We used to feed the junkyard dog and he never even barked at us.
Yeah
My heart sank when that perfectly good looking Red pick up was crushed!
Looked rust free,wish we had some good ones like that up here in Minnesota.
It was a SUV Yukon with the leather upgrade and looked like they were still good... and the navigator is some score Too if not cut up and trashed!!!
Ah who cares it was ford
I'm sure it had bad cam phasers/ bad engine.
I've been fighting rust my whole life. Watching rust free vehicles get crushed just kills me!
I live in Maine so I hear ya.
I mean the red truck he crushed is worth thousands up here even with a blown motor…
Southern states have good bodies japan sells engines with 20k miles cause of thier strick emissions laws.
@@maine-ly yeah and it also cost hundreds to ship it to where you are I'm sure, not to mention the time it takes to prep the rig and load it.
@@gatorb8 absolutely. And when he’s crushing it for only a couple hundred dollars? I mean it would cost what $500 to ship to me (this is not accurate and just an example). So $500, fix it up and it would be worth a lotttt more. Especially since everything where I live is RUSTED out hardcore. So a rust free truck ? Ya worth that $500 shipping. People do this all the time where I live … they make stupid money
I used to work at a salvage yard. Inventorying each part worth selling, gave me the opportunity to be in and around each vehicle for about 45 minutes. The amount of cash and change I’d find is unbelievable.
We had a Mercedes trashed by a semi that had $1000 cash in it. Finders keepers. 😁
I work in the towing and recovery field when we get abandoned cars that don't sell at auction and are too broken or not worth anything generally I get to go through them prepping for the scrap yard
Lucky git 😂
I owned a salvage yard for years and can tell you that anything that came from an impound lot or salvage pool rarely came in with articles worth much. Maybe some loose change here and there or some old rap CDs. Most had already been picked by wrecker drivers or impound employees.
Lucky bastid..🤣🤣
@@SaltyNationalist ‘Twas a nice Christmas that year. Lol ✌🏼🇺🇸
it's a shame to see as many vehicles destroyed on a regular basis. it would be awesome if they had an improved version of a junkyard that disassembles vehicles to repair others instead of crushing both
Junk yard Resurrectionists.
some of.those cars looked fixable
Yea
Depressing 4. Me I ff thru segment
Wow! @4:44 he tosses a pretty clean Cragar Keystone wheel with center cap🥲
$300 used on eBay... DAYUMMM!
Noticed that too. Yards forever toss good shit. Just bought back a vintage bike ($6) I just listed on eBay for $300 and bought a half ton hand truck that retails $680 for $19.
I just spent weeks finding keystones for my car. No center caps tho.
Wow that red Ford F150 had a ton of good parts on it. Good truck bed doors ETC oh well what a Shame.
i know what a shame
I wonder why they can't take them to a pick and pull or something, I'd imagine they'd make more money.
I'd have given him $2k cash for it instantly.
ALTHOUGH WE LIVE WITH IT EVERY DAY, VIDS LIKE THESE ALWAYS REMIND ME JUST HOW FUCKED UP OF A SPECIES WE REALLY ARE.
GREAT JOB HUMANS..👍
That motorcycle engine was a old 550/650 Honda from the mid 70s... kinda rare lately
Yup can ship to Japan for coin
And thier bullet proof too.
6:18 That is a real shame to see that truck being crushed you should see half of these pick ups up here in the northern part of the states wheel wells rusted out under 50,000 miles frames got holes in them by 100,000 miles.
Even though I could never find myself driving a RED vehicle, I am with you on that truck. It bout broke my heart to see that thing crushed
Silas, I was buying steel off cuts at my favorite steel yard a few years ago and operating next door was a shredder finishing off cars, trucks and white goods. It was maybe 100 ft from me. I was concentrating on what I was doing when all of a sudden BBBOOOOOOOOOOOM. I must have jumped 5 ft in the air. Turned around smoke and flames coming out of the shredder. Maybe a propane tank inside a dishwasher. But it soldiered on. Man it was a surprise.
If you see the shredder operator running, try to keep up! :D
I definitely felt pain seeing the red F150 being crushed.
Being from the rust belt I hear that. Crazy how clean all his cars are
Me too. I skipped over the crushing part....
That's were all ford's belong
The frame bent before the roof caved in. That makes me feel safer in a Ford pickup, especially if it flips for some wild reason.
THOSE F150S HAD THE BAD ENGINES IN THEM
How depressing. I need a car and seeing some good ones getting crushed just hits me hard.
i.feel you
That's why I buy abandoned cars and fix em for cash cars people NEED
The old Ford F150 with the 4.9 six was the best ever, 1987 with a five speed over 400k miles !
Those 4.9 6s didn't even need oil LOL
Digging and finding the treasures is the best part of scrapping vehicles you buy! Aside from getting good converters lol
Also,if one saves as much loose change as possible,it all adds up (good rainy day fund).☺
I cannot believe that no one would want that red 150....the bed, body panels, cab corners ,doors....OMG!!!
Some of vehicular you crush are better then what I drive
They’re better than what I drive too haha
@@AdventuresMadeFromScratch I've been driving the same Toyota pickup sense 1991
Those crown vics are worth some money man!!! DERBY CARS
I grew up in Toledo Oh....Salt ate your up car starting in year 3..,
All these good cars...I have Big Tears
What a pleasure it was to see that POS red Ford pickup CRUSHED!
Always fascinating to hear how things were done years ago like in your grandpa's day.
You did a good job; your presentation of your work here at the yard was super good, held my attention all the way through!
I believe that is a Honda 550 or 750 engine at 10:50. Worth $700 - $800
550 for sure
Rare motor now....and just got rarer...😬
Not no more! It b goned, lol
@@kea5763 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏻♀️
Around here, once the title is burned at the scrapyard scale, you can't sell parts off it. You have to pop the trunk with tbe loader because people load it up with cinder blocks and such to make it weigh more. Tires go right through the shredder and are separated into what they call fluff. You end up driving on it at the landfill
This truck needed me 5 months ago, new trannie new 5 liter v8 and this would bd a sweet ride. People are nuts getting rid of this! Yeah I’m 74 and growing up we did this all the time. Wish I was nearer. Shipping this truck would be about $700 to Virginia. If I was still living in Maine, this no rust truck is like gold!!!!
Spent a large part of my teenage summers working in my Mom's boyfriends salvage yard (don't call it a junkyard!). I was too young to drive, but was operating a front end loader on a hill full of rows of cars. We had the first Honda 3 wheelers and then 4 wheelers. By the end I was running the crusher. And I pulled lots of part. Lots and lots of parts. Tough job but I learned a ton of skills I have used throughout my life, and am forever grateful for the experience. Use to love finding stuff in trunks and glove boxes.
He's not salvaging anything he is junking it all so it is a junk yard
I don't remember a Honda 3 wheel car only the little ATV.s? First Honda cars we saw in England were the little 360 boxes and that lovely little 600 egg shaped one.
Sounds like you worked at Post Bros. on US 9W in Catskill, NY. Cars and hills. "Red" Post was the easiest guy to get along with.
Thumbs up on salvage yard. If it's worth money it's not a junkyard.
@@bluerider7922 M&M Auto in Steamboat Springs CO.
I had some guy abandon a ford car on my property years ago. I waited a few years for him to come back for it, but he never did. When i finally offered it to a friend of mine when her car blew up, i decided to look through it before she came for it. In the trunk was about a thousand dollarsworth of brand new mechanic's tools. Wrench sets and multiple socket sets. Pittsburgh forge impact socket sets, screwdriver sets and on and on. 35 years later....i'm still using those tools!
I was hoping to find a beautiful girl in a trunk and she was waiting to be picked up but that never happened.
I work for a used car dealership. Fetching auction cars for them. A couple times now we've found guns ammo and other valuables
Wow, and my ol' 97' Crown Victoria keeps chugging along.
That was a four cylinder kawasaki motor, very popular! Maybe a KZ1 to bad
Back in the 70's my neighbors scrapped cars they would load the flat bed and run a firehose in them to pick up the weight when the seats and upholstery got soaked.
I heard about that dirty trick. That's like filling copper pipes with sand and pebbles. That's dirty!
Man! Watching you get ready to crunch those trucks, and I'm thinking "I could fix em!!" Shame to scrap em when the body looks in such good condition. Definitely not the job for me. I'd want to keep too many of them!
same here . i absolutely HATE throwing away useable things !
I've always thought the same thing. I've seen cars and trucks come into the pick a part that I used to frequent in Greer, SC that I would love to fix up, but ultimately end up in the crusher. Oh well, if not for the pick a part, my daily would have been in a junkyard.
i would have the same problem
I know! I'd end up spending all my time and money trying to save these cars!
A friend of mine's uncle owned a scrap yard. One of the employees found several hundred dollars in a car once. However, his productivity cratered afterward, because he spent too much time searching the cars rather than working, so he had to eventually be fired.
He saw green then greed succeeded.
Fascinating
I hate crush yards. All cars should have to go through a pull yard first so the good parts have a chance at getting salvaged. There should be a chance for people to buy the car whole as well before it's put into the pull yard
my friend found over 5,000 in cash in a trunk of a car so u never know what u will find i have found many tools in cars at the wrecker . then i use to work right next door to a big scrap yard and they would sell us any car they got for 200 to 300 we got a lot of good cars from them.
Always something cool about scrap yards. All those cars took people on family holidays etc. Just abaonded and got something newer. Some cool looking cars
I can't believe you crushed those nice looking trucks, don't see any rust on them. I live in northern Michigan and vehicles rot out fast around here. A lot of them have low mileage on them but the bodies are shit. I got a 2001 Chevy s-10 4x4 with only 82,000 miles on it from my dad and the body is about to fall off of it. Really sucks what salt does to vehicles around here. Wish I could find a rust free body like the trucks you crushed.
I love it at 5:15 when the front of that Case loader comes up like an angry bull dog.
Carter family
My friend had a scrapping company. Drove me nuts! So many treasures and decent cars. Lol I would have bought that Fx 4 but I’m in Washington. 🙃
I imagine your job is never boring.
I love watching the glass pop out of the windows!
i worked at a scrap yead here in ohio for 10 years. some days i almost miss it.
Damg would've loved to purchase the red truck made me cry ge a few times watching it get destroyed, my dad had a 08 black one
Oh man! That body on that red truck was in great shape! It's a shame nobody wanted it! I only say that because my husband has been wanting a truck for a while now. He had a truck but there was a recall on an engine part and it was stolen right out of the dealerships bay!!! He was just sick! That was 21 years ago right after he started dialysis. He hasn't had one since 😔
You wouldn't have to take a loss if you tap on the converter and see if it sounds hollow if it does not sound hollow that means the converter is full tap on it with a hammer or something
I cried little when crushed that "rust free Red Truck" dam... must be in one rich area. when truck like that can be scrapped. unless something obvious like "flood damage" those tend to smell. you crush dreams should be your title./
Rust free stuff is super common and cheap out here.
Junk crappy Ford.
@@AdventuresMadeFromScratch You should try an online auction for some of those.
@Robert S I’d have gladly taken $200 for it. You or someone could be rich if you’d come but that stuff and take it home
@unknown hinson
Yeah only when they are not in use they run, and when you actually need to use them, they end up failing on you. 🤷🏻♂️
@4:02 that red 2nd gen Taurus SHO...Ive had a green and a white one..always loved the red. Awesome cars.
I must say you are good on that loader. I had my own yard for 20 years in Michigan and loved my time in the loader.
Loads of these cars newer and nicer then my car 😂
Kicker comp r preloaded enclosure and a Alpine amp.
That’s a pretty decent starter kit for sure
Where is this? Hell, I'm driving rusted out junk and could easily fix up and drive what you're scrapping out.
He doesn't know what it's like man , he's spoiled
Junk cars.
I wouldn't drive american cars.
@@LSnium that's funny because there are a ton of foreign cars we won't drive or work on. Some are good some are bad. The key is to know which ones
@@LSnium ,foreign cars are the junk! Ill take a Ford or chevy over any foreign job in the world!!
@Sarah cool
Yet the Japanese have better craftsmanship and specific standards for their cars.
Unlike americans, they mass produce cars and dont care if they break down as soon as you leave the lot.
Cheack the expiration date on the Hard hat. Crazy yes, but true cheack
I crushed cars in Tx and Mn for years. It was 20 years ago and watching your video really makes me miss it. I am a machinist now. I see you have a remote for your crusher and you seem like a one man band. I would love to take a week or two and come and give you a hand throwing tires in cars, cutting cats, keeping stuff out of your way and more importantly stay out of your way. I would do it for nothing and almost pay you to do it. I know how it is with help. Trust me i know. I ran 3 crushers. One was in Southern Tex. One in Centra Texas. Then me. By myself with the 3rd crusher because i rather work alone then with incompetence. I would load my car on the trailer with the loader and go to where ever. Then drive my car back for the crusher. I would crush the cars myself and even though the company had plenty of trucks i had a company use my cars for a back haul. At the end of the day i made more then the other 2 crushers combined. The owner of the company wanted me to take it over completely but when i said the first thing i would do is auction off everything but the new freightliner, the new john deere loader and the custom built 52' lowboy ( could haul 3 stacks w/out much if any hanging over). I said i could make a fine living just smashing in the tops and hauling them to the mill. He wanted me to make the business bigger instead so we parted ways. I know a long message. Seriously though if you didnt mind a guy throwing stuff for you and hanging out let me know. I am in no way in need of a job or money. I can pay for a room. I cannot think of a better vacation. You could tell me to get the hell off your property after 30 minutes. I would leave no problem. I know if someone approached me with something like this i might reply and say no, but i doubt they would even get that. Hopefully you are not that brutal. Thank you.
Well i watched all your videos and enjoyed them all,hoping to see new ones soon.
I try to release a video every Tuesday and Thursday, sometimes more.
Those are some great finds. I'm astounded at the some of the things people leave in their vehicles. I have to ask, what's the benefit of crushing the vehicles instead of parting them out? I presume it must be quicker money to sell them as scrap.
Used Auto Parts on Craigslist adds by owner in my area stay there forever . There's a picture of a Jeep the guys been trying to sell for parts for nearly two years .
I swear they throw away so many really good cars in your area. I can't believe it. With the price of used cars over the top in our area, I can't believe that those are getting scrapped.
Old American cars suck, youd be betger off throwing these away since they are gonna put you in debt since they always break on you, thats why you dont see him crushing many Japanese cars.
@@LSnium honestly you just have to watch what car you are buying because you could have a car from a reliable company that constantly breaks down
I'd be weary about all new cars because they are stuffed with computerized parts which will break a lot easier than mechanical parts
@@LSnium just stay away from Chrysler in general and avoid new chevrolet's, fiat's, kia's, Volkswagen's and ford's
Many old GM cars where built to last long but many of them weren't well maintained which is why you accredit them as being unreliable
Morning Silas!! Another car scrapping video!! If some of those cars could talk......be safe!! God Bless!!
Should put a box off to the side for all those old games an stuff you find some of them have some good value to them I used to collect them at the junk yard I was at for a while made a few bucks
Omg the vehicles worth a few more years Would help someone that really can't deal with car payments due to disabled.
Nah, If you know anything about cars, American cars, especially the older ones would make low income people in debt, since they break down all the time and are expensive to repair, unlike Japanese cars, even old Japanese cars are better than new American cars.
Always someone wanting something for free. Karen, you should have planned for retirement better.
Good running cars don't get scrapped. Cars in junkyards were towed to a mechanic who told the owner it would cost $6500 to put a new engine in their fifteen year old car that books for $3500 in mint RUNNING condition!! Then it gets hauled to the crusher who pays them sixty-five bucks for it.
And i can´t believe that you crush that. The Parts are Gold :(
That was awesome brand new boots with a kicker amp and subs can't go wrong there. What a score!
You can always strip the car keep the part put it on the helpline or eBay you make more money than crushing a car some parts are very rare
All your narration makes it enjoyable to watch
Treasures! White hard hat is for the boss 😎👍🏽
Whoohooooo let the treasure hunt begin I love these videos 👌👌👌👌👌 you should do it lots 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Hey thanks for showing us this, it’s pretty cool,
I was surprised that red truck is scrap
Tires are pretty heavy so you are actually getting paid for them at the weigh-in at the shredder. I think an average 15 in. tire weighs over 20 lbs.
Awesome video I love Scraping cars
man we would kill for these trucks in Australia
Man I think you have the coolest job. I won't mine to give you a in hand, you don't have to pay me. Because I enjoy finding stuff that I can use too.
Sad to see that F150 and those buicks die. I had a couple of Lesabres with the 3.8 that were my gas sipping commuters for my 100 mile R/T to work. 28 - 29 mpg!
Always liked watching the cars being crushed
This man knows his game well.
When the weathers not too hot, not too cold but just right, this is referred to as "Goldilocks" weather (remember the story of Goldilocks and The Three Bears?).
In UK we have to take tyres off empty fuel and oil from engine and transmission
Yep the doors do pop out when crushed.
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I can't believe there's so many people crushing cars right now used cars are a prime I would do whatever I can to fix my used car!
I like learning about people's jobs. Thank you!
Crushing part reminded me of National Lampoon's Vacation. Lol
over here in the netherlands you cannot even bring a car in as scrap metal if the tires are still on , same with fridges washing machines and dryers (they want the people to bring them intoo a recycle center)
That has to be such a cool job... You own and operate things... working at ur own speed...
Wo, u really got alot of valuable parts.
Would love to see you open up the glvoe boxes in these videos!
One decent looking truck crush was enough for me.
Found glasses or glasses off store racks can lead to Pink Eye!
You think of all the work people did to make the payments and insurance and maintenance.
Yep, that's exactly what we used to do, we used to shove tires in the cars before we crush them, and we used to even throw a couple trash bags in there! Lol. He knew the people at Smiths, which is a huge scrap yard and recycling yard in Washington DC, they are very well known in the business.
Watching stuff get crushed! So satisfying!!
I love junkyards....no telling what you can find.
Those hard hats come in handy. They are good for keeping from getting your ears sunburned to keeping the bird ship off your head. Not to mention something heavy cracking your cranium.
Crown Vic looks in really nice shape. Wouldn't have minded trying to save some of those. They were in better shape than what I have now.
I live in a relatively small place as far as population goes so it's getting harder and harder to find crown vics and nearly impossible to find MGM's and town cars so it kills me to see decent ones get destroyed.
I shed a virtual tear thinking a cragar ss wheel was going inside a vehicle to be crushed
I saw that too. We must be about the same age then.
You got me hooked. I subscribed.
I'm shocked they don't strip more usable parts off the cars before they crush them.
It depends on the yard, everyone is diff. Though if you find a yard that don't pull parts. I've found they generally let parts go cheap. If u pull them