Saved all this this from the scrapyard yesterday.

[SquirrelsTools]

Grabbed a bunch of rusty iron yesterday at the scrapyard. More to come for sure. Guy was dumping 5 gallon buckets of stuff out. Yard lets me buy by weight.

I picked up:

Some Wilton clamps

A freaking craftsman pipe threader with the sticker on it???

A Mill *******

A curved body file

A couple hammers

A busted batwing clamp (I think it says Jorgensen?

And some massive (Up to 1 1/2 inch) forged eyebolts.

I also have an unreasonable obsession with anything that says unbreako, because it sounds like an Asimov robot out to destroy the universe. I nabbed my biggest unbreako hex wrench yet, 1 1/2 in! Super excited haha.

 

[dutchgray]

I have had much better stuff than that, scary sometimes what gets dumped in the scrap because its just the easiest way to get rid of metal stuff.

 

[jwilson645]

Sometimes it's the ONLY way to get rid of stuff.

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

Nice find. I believe that recycling works.

 

[bmwrd0]

My scrapyard sells tools at either $2/lb or sometimes at an individual price. I bought a lathe there for $175 (Craftsman 6") and a Plomb 3/4" socket set for $200.

But, yeah, sometimes that is the only way to get rid of even good stuff.

 

[SquirrelsTools]

*opens a tool based scrapyard* Send em my way haha. I give a great deal of them away. I live in the poorest city in the U.S. People legitimately need basic hand tools all the time around here. My girlfriend works for a 501c3 that has a branch that provides bikes, bike repair, tools, and small engine/mechanical repair training to the homeless folks in the city too.

You'd be surprised at what a 50¢ screwdriver or some mismatched sockets can do in someone's life. There's probably a place like that near all of you. I get that "giving away tools" isn't everyone's thing. But look at it this way (I do) some folks don't have dad's/grandfather's/moms/brothers to get skills or their first stuff from.

The amount of adults I've met without a decent claw hammer, or anything but a #2 Phillips is alarming. The average income in my city is sub-25k year for a family.

I also teach skills where I can, just the ability to tell the difference between a sink and toilet plunger saves folks 100s of dollars sometimes too.

So seriously, if you have basic stuff to get rid of, send it my way. I'll pay for a flat rate box when I can (just to say I can't swing a dozen flat rates at once haha), just to donate them at the bike shop/small engine school.

 

[SquirrelsTools]

To clarify, this is the donation pile from that haul.

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

*opens a tool based scrapyard* Send em my way haha. I give a great deal of them away. I live in the poorest city in the U.S. People legitimately need basic hand tools all the time around here. My girlfriend works for a 501c3 that has a branch that provides bikes, bike repair, tools, and small engine/mechanical repair training to the homeless folks in the city too.

You'd be surprised at what a 50¢ screwdriver or some mismatched sockets can do in someone's life. There's probably a place like that near all of you. I get that "giving away tools" isn't everyone's thing. But look at it this way (I do) some folks don't have dad's/grandfather's/moms/brothers to get skills or their first stuff from.

The amount of adults I've met without a decent claw hammer, or anything but a #2 Phillips is alarming. The average income in my city is sub-25k year for a family.

I also teach skills where I can, just the ability to tell the difference between a sink and toilet plunger saves folks 100s of dollars sometimes too.

So seriously, if you have basic stuff to get rid of, send it my way. I'll pay for a flat rate box when I can (just to say I can't swing a dozen flat rates at once haha), just to donate them at the bike shop/small engine school.

Great. We have that same situation in the hills of Ky. I am so use to advertising on this site and others at what ever you can afford.

 

[SquirrelsTools]

Great. We have that same situation in the hills of Ky. I am so use to advertising on this site and others at what ever you can afford.

As a former Appalachia resident, I can honestly say, at least the neighbor spirit is there. Here, people will watch you fail. Repeatedly. There i remember watching headlights go down the road at 3 am as a kid and waking up to a breakfast no one asked for, or could afford.