Scrapping utility trailer...Done

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Scrapping utility trailer...Done

Postby Morsecode » Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:36 pm

Have an old rusted out 4x8 trailer that I want to scrap tomorrow. I don't need to pull the tires off, right?

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Re: Scrapping utility trailer

Postby PennyBoy » Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:20 pm

I doubt it. If you have one nearby, an auto dismantler may even come to your house and pay you for it. You wouldn't even have to leave your house!
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Re: Scrapping utility trailer

Postby Thogey » Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:22 pm

As long as you have the title. My yard will buy it as is.
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Re: Scrapping utility trailer...Done

Postby Morsecode » Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:23 pm

Spent the whole morning in the rain pulling wood off the trailer. Finally went to drive off and the damn thing near collapsed. I guess the plywood had been holding it together. So I broke it down some more and trailered the remains to the yard.

Ordeal in a thunderstorm. No idea what I was doing, or what lane to get in. The guys were hollering spanish. But they took pity on me and clawed the whole mess right off the bed for me. I only got out of the truck to get soaked; figured they were all wet and miserable, it seemed the right thing to do.

So my ticket says 700 lb Light Iron, price/0.112 lb, total $78.12

I guess they didn't care about the tires after all. Besides the 4x8 trailer, I added a couple 5 gal pails of misc shop scrap, and half an engine block from an old tractor.

I don't know how the price per lb stacks up with current trends, but I was happy with the outcome anyway. I can see how this could become addicting.
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