Popular Post Derrico Posted December 8 Popular Post Share Posted December 8 Hello forum members, yesterday the weather was right for a trip to our local salvage yard. We managed to get some parts for the B20 Mack. Parts needed were a right front fender, radiator shell, and shutters. Before the trip I had a chance to see if the headlights worked, and yes, they did. Time well spent while awaiting some tune up parts. Have a great productive weekend!.....Frank 8 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mrsmackpaul Posted December 8 Popular Post Share Posted December 8 Well done and lucky to find what was needed Good to see the ever faithful pooches are supervising proceedings back in the shed Paul 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrico Posted December 8 Author Share Posted December 8 Hi Paul, yes it was a good trip for needed parts. The pooches are always ready, willing and able to help if a cookie is offered! 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted December 8 Share Posted December 8 10 four on the .snacks…… terrific deal on the parts you can’t just go to autozone for these things bob 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrico Posted December 8 Author Share Posted December 8 Hi Bob, you are right! They are hard to find, and you sure can't get them at the local auto store. Those snacks keep the troops happy! 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563532 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cruiseliner64 Posted December 8 Popular Post Share Posted December 8 Thats a great parts store,wish id one like it near me.The EU in their wisdom have outlawed such places.scrap yards are now just that.. once a vehicle enters its broken into recycleable parts and sent to recovery places where every part is melted down into its raw state and then made into something else...no vintage parts for the likes of us... Paul 3 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Derrico Posted December 9 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 9 Hi Paul, that is sad. We are lucky that there are still some salvage yards around. The one in my pictures actually has four Mack trucks. Three are R-Models, one B and a fire truck. Many trucks of all kinds and farm tractors and machinery. A lucky, valuable resource to be sure! 4 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted December 9 Share Posted December 9 with land prices going through the stratosphere here in central New Jersey, all the scrap yards are being sold of for either condom complexes stacked like sardines in a can, or 1,000,000 square foot warehouse buildings. 2 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Derrico Posted December 9 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 9 Hi tjc, I am up in Northern Wisconsin farm country. He is making a small fortune with his salvage yard, and he can sell the yard at his desire. 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Joseph Cummings Posted December 9 Popular Post Share Posted December 9 3 hours ago, tjc transport said: with land prices going through the stratosphere here in central New Jersey, all the scrap yards are being sold of for either condom complexes stacked like sardines in a can, or 1,000,000 square foot warehouse buildings. I love how they are considered toxic wastelands until the right guy owns the property. And then it's fine to build houses and an elementary school on 5 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted December 9 Share Posted December 9 15 hours ago, Joseph Cummings said: I love how they are considered toxic wastelands until the right guy owns the property. And then it's fine to build houses and an elementary school on yup. it all boils down to who gets paid off. look at Colonia NJ in 1967 they built a school complex on top of an old commercial sight where radioactive materials were used. claim was the site was clean.. in 1990 students were being taught how to use a Geiger counter. it went nuts and the school was evacuated. when a radioactive rock was found. on the ground it was covered up. now 30 years later there are reports of 120 former students of that school having, or or have died of brain cancer. 2 3 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiseliner64 Posted December 9 Share Posted December 9 All about the money...same the world over Paul 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted December 9 Share Posted December 9 same everywhere TJ now these fools are even starting to build over wetlands,right here,,,i dont know how the hell they think thier going to get away with this,,,,thats horrible about the students,,,,and even worse how the people involved with the entire project can wash thier hands so fast to taking any responsibility,,,,rest of us cant even get away with a speeding ticket,,,like wow man..bob 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted December 9 Share Posted December 9 3 hours ago, tjc transport said: yup. it all boils down to who gets paid off. look at Colonia NJ in 1967 they built a school complex on top of an old commercial sight where radioactive materials were used. claim was the site was clean.. in 1990 students were being taught how to use a Geiger counter. it went nuts and the school was evacuated. when a radioactive rock was found. on the ground it was covered up. now 30 years later there are reports of 120 former students of that school having, or or have died of brain cancer. Quote In 1942, Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corporation purchased the site of the Love Canal. Between 1942 and 1953 Hooker Chemical disposed of about 22,000 tons of mixed chemical wastes into the Love Canal. Shortly after Hooker ceased use of the site, the land was sold to the Niagara Falls School Board for a price of $1.00. In 1955, the 99th Street Elementary School was constructed on the Love Canal property and opened its doors to students. Subsequent development of the area would see hundreds of families take up residence in the suburban, blue-collar neighborhood of the Love Canal. During construction they were digging up drums of unknown waste products. I seem to remember they relocated a building because they were hitting so many https://library2.buffalo.edu/archives/lovecanal/about/background-information.html 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Derrico Posted December 10 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 10 I'm not sure what the Love Canal and a salvage yard have in common. The Hooker Chemicals and others like them around the country are guilty of the contamination for sure. As for our local salvage yard, there will be nuts, bolts and brake shoes etc. turning up for years. Not much different from any junk yard. 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tjc transport Posted December 10 Popular Post Share Posted December 10 8 hours ago, Derrico said: I'm not sure what the Love Canal and a salvage yard have in common. The Hooker Chemicals and others like them around the country are guilty of the contamination for sure. As for our local salvage yard, there will be nuts, bolts and brake shoes etc. turning up for years. Not much different from any junk yard. just the fact that people with money can pay off the rite person to magically turn a hazardous waste site into developable land. a salvage/junk yard is usually considered a hazardous waste site due to years of oil and other liquids coming out of the vehicles into the yard. 4 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted December 10 Share Posted December 10 unrelated to HM,,,but condos are a big part of what happened to most of our favorite amusement parks,,,bob 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-563680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GearUpJammer Posted Saturday at 04:10 PM Share Posted Saturday at 04:10 PM On 12/8/2024 at 7:16 PM, tjc transport said: with land prices going through the stratosphere here in central New Jersey, all the scrap yards are being sold of for either condom complexes stacked like sardines in a can, or 1,000,000 square foot warehouse buildings. A sad state of affairs.Then the warehouses sit vacant for 2 years and they keep building more.Remember all the junkyards on Texas Rd? 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-564392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted Saturday at 07:54 PM Share Posted Saturday at 07:54 PM they are mostly still there........for now. the only ones closed are Barons and PJ's. Aberdeen auto salvage is still there, but only open on saturday and by appointment during the week. John has gotten real sick and the guy running the yard for him has a full time weekday job. the two yards down the other end off Tyler lane are still open, and Midway auto wreckers is still open. Marlboro auto wreckers yard on spring valley road is still working, as is B&B on 520. 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-564410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hicrop10 Posted Sunday at 06:31 PM Share Posted Sunday at 06:31 PM 22 hours ago, tjc transport said: they are mostly still there........for now. the only ones closed are Barons and PJ's. Aberdeen auto salvage is still there, but only open on saturday and by appointment during the week. John has gotten real sick and the guy running the yard for him has a full time weekday job. the two yards down the other end off Tyler lane are still open, and Midway auto wreckers is still open. Marlboro auto wreckers yard on spring valley road is still working, as is B&B on 520. Do any of these yards you are talking about have heavy duty trucks? Looking for one of these.Where are they located at? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-564476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted Sunday at 06:48 PM Share Posted Sunday at 06:48 PM the only yards with trucks are Marlboro Auto Wreckers on Tennant Road, and Midway Auto Wreckers on Texas Road in Morvanville NJ. Marlboro has a truck yard about 1/2 mile from the main yard on Spring Valley road. Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-564478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted Sunday at 07:48 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:48 PM 1 hour ago, hicrop10 said: Do any of these yards you are talking about have heavy duty trucks? Looking for one of these.Where are they located at? Mike Nugent used to have a lot of heavy spec B model stuff in trailers from Gus Sr. I kind of remember seeing some of that stuff at A&A truck parts in Jersey. Maybe Deerfield down in South Jersey. Have you talked to Tony Desandro at Ace auto parts in Bensalem, he might know somebody. Let me know if you can't find it. I know some places up here that were still running stuff like that in the mines not too long ago Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-564482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted Sunday at 08:22 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:22 PM On 12/9/2024 at 8:03 PM, Derrico said: I'm not sure what the Love Canal and a salvage yard have in common. The Hooker Chemicals and others like them around the country are guilty of the contamination for sure. As for our local salvage yard, there will be nuts, bolts and brake shoes etc. turning up for years. Not much different from any junk yard. You are forgetting about all the fluids spilled, and holes dug to bury anything they needed to get rid of. Going back 30 plus years ago everybody operated like slobs. I can think of a few guys cutting up utility transformers to get the copper and just letting the oil run on the ground. Lead acid batteries got broken, mercury switches got smashed, all kinds of shit went on the ground without a thought 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-564487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hicrop10 Posted Sunday at 09:48 PM Share Posted Sunday at 09:48 PM 1 hour ago, Joseph Cummings said: Mike Nugent used to have a lot of heavy spec B model stuff in trailers from Gus Sr. I kind of remember seeing some of that stuff at A&A truck parts in Jersey. Maybe Deerfield down in South Jersey. Have you talked to Tony Desandro at Ace auto parts in Bensalem, he might know somebody. Let me know if you can't find it. I know some places up here that were still running stuff like that in the mines not too long ago I will talk with Mike this week,Tks. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-564489 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted Sunday at 10:03 PM Share Posted Sunday at 10:03 PM 5 minutes ago, hicrop10 said: I will talk with Mike this week,Tks. You know he has Gus Policino. B81 don't you? It's red now 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74842-salvege-yard-visit/#findComment-564491 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.