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The Price Of Rubber Tracks
Running a salvage yard is expensive and you often need heavy machinery to move vehicle around. If you are luck enough ot have hard surfaces throughout then the typical large forklift can handle most things, but on uneven ground then something with rubber tracks is likely to be safer. The downside is they tend to move much slower, so from a productivity side of things they are not always the best options. But from a piont that you can buy new rubber tracks as and when you need them, does help.
But don’t be fooled these rubber tracks are not always cheap and as a salvage yard we know bought a tracked machine from auction only to find the rubber tracks he needed was so expensive he had paid too much for the excavator. Should have jut bought one second hand with the rubber tracks already in place.
So they live and learn, but then come the different options of rubber tracks, and the difference in price they all charge. Of course every supplier states that their product is the best and will last the longest time etc, etc. Easy for a professional to say, but difficult for salvage yards who business is auto auctions not heavy machinery. One place to get good advice is from Mini Max Parts for smaller rubber tracks, they gave good advice and a good price. I known it is an advert, but they did help.
Junk Yards Need Excavators
Obviously salvage cars and auctions need heavy machinery to move vehicles or even strip the vehicles for car parts or crushing. Here we can see an example of a Komatsu excavator being used to clear away old car parts from a scrap yard. These machines can save a huge amount of time and resource getting those heavy jobs done. Ironically getting undercarriage parts for these machines can be harder than the car parts they are stripping and moving. There are new excavator part suppliers out there but beware as prices can vary based on genuine parts and copies.
These machines to buy are often very expensive too with a long working lifespan, so even second hand ones will raise a good premium and as we have seen in recent salvage auctions, some of the wear parts associated with excavators are well in demand. Anyway here is the junk yard video.
Pulling Engines Within Salvage Yards
Stripping cars down for parts can be very profitable providing the time to do this does not eat into the bottom line. What is also true that many salvage cars that are to stay on the road needs a donor car of some sort for car parts? If you have bought a flood damaged salvage project then their is a good chance that a new engine will be needed, so buyers will expect that engine to be taken out of the car first before purchase.
Searching through the internet we have found a cool machine that makes the task of removing an engine from a salvage car as easy as opening a tin with a can opener. The machine is called the SAS Scorpion engine puller which looks like an electric attachment to a fork lift. The time to process a vehicle is deemed at 60 seconds, although not sure what condition the engine is really in when removed. So although marketed for salvage yards, it may be more suitable for wrecking yards. See for yourself below.
Vermont Junk Yard
Terrible music but the cars in the old junk yard look superb. A collection of photos brings this salvage yard to life. After seeing both these yards on the last 2 posts we have decided to find as many salvage yards to this blog. Although in this presentation we didn’t an to see tool boxes, just the cars thank you very much. Seems someone though about doing a salvage yard advert and putting it for all to see.. The yard specialises in 50, 60s, and 70s Chevy, Ford and Dodge. And guess where it is located? Yes Vermont that wasn’t hard.
Walking Around A Salvage Yard
For some it is a hindrance but for others getting a chance to walk around a salvage yard or the graveyard for cars can be just brilliant. Here is a salvage yard in Iowa that is full of old American cars that just scream out at you to take them home and get them back on the road. The undergrowth suggests that this yard is either now closed or has a section nit used very much any more. You just can’t imaging that these cars would not be raided or at least bought in full was there full access to the yard. There have been 34,000 views on this from you tube and have no doubt the phone started ringing to the owners requesting car parts from the 50’s.