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You can come and scrap those at my house. They look like they have scratches and scratches make vises useless so you can just put those in my scrap bin when you get a chance.
 
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I actually manage a scrap yard. I would say it probably came from a school shop clean out. every year near the start of the new school season we get stuff like this. sometimes welders, drill presses, work benches, lockers ect.

all of the vises work and are not broken except for the 2 Wiltons. I probably found 20 or more wilton vises in the past few years and I have never found a good one. always broken. never found a broken Reed, Columbian, Parker ect
The big Parker vise is rusted but don't look to be broken

I paid less than 40.00 for all of em
 
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When the auto plant I worked in was closed, it was full of tool boxes and work benches, all with a vise on them-sometimes a vise and a pipe vise,too. There were hundreds of them-maybe thousands. The scrap guys got it all when the plant was torn down. Who knows what happened to all those vises.
 
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If I may ask, how do you approach a scrap yard and ask them to buy stuff off of them? Or do you have a hookup?
 
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Sh40674 said:
If I may ask, how do you approach a scrap yard and ask them to buy stuff off of them? Or do you have a hookup?
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I kinda have a hook up........ I manage the yard.....
Most scrap yards are doing away with selling to the public for insurance reasons. I use to let people in to buy things until I see them climbing on top of a 35ft tall pile of iron to try to unbolt something
The best way to buy stuff from a scrap yard is to take scrap metals to them. At the very least it gets you into the yard to nose around. If they don't sell to the public they usually WILL sell to customers. PLAN B........ just go in ask to look around and maybe buy a few things. Just remember they are a business and there to make money. They don't like to hear its just scrap or ill give you scrap price for it.
 
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Damon what a haul I would kill for a Wilton vise the only scrap yard I know of don't have anything like that or tool wise .
 
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jason n said:
I kinda have a hook up........ I manage the yard.....
Most scrap yards are doing away with selling to the public for insurance reasons. I use to let people in to buy things until I see them climbing on top of a 35ft tall pile of iron to try to unbolt something
The best way to buy stuff from a scrap yard is to take scrap metals to them. At the very least it gets you into the yard to nose around. If they don't sell to the public they usually WILL sell to customers. PLAN B........ just go in ask to look around and maybe buy a few things. Just remember they are a business and there to make money. They don't like to hear its just scrap or ill give you scrap price for it.
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Sweet! Wheres you yard I lived in Milwaukee for 18 years?
 
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jason n said:
I kinda have a hook up........ I manage the yard.....
Most scrap yards are doing away with selling to the public for insurance reasons. I use to let people in to buy things until I see them climbing on top of a 35ft tall pile of iron to try to unbolt something
The best way to buy stuff from a scrap yard is to take scrap metals to them. At the very least it gets you into the yard to nose around. If they don't sell to the public they usually WILL sell to customers. PLAN B........ just go in ask to look around and maybe buy a few things. Just remember they are a business and there to make money. They don't like to hear its just scrap or ill give you scrap price for it.
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Thanks for the info! I'll have to try it out
 
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Where do u guys find all this ****?? If I went to a scrap yard by me I'm sure it would be filled with anything BUT something useful.. Jesus you could start a side business with monthly hauls like that.
 
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I asked at the yard I go to and they said they don't sell. Maybe I should find a new one.
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Unfortunately that's the way most places are going. Insurance rates are insanity for salvage/scrap recycling yards.
 
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Years ago, before she passed away, I had an aunt that ran a scrap yard. It was amazing what she saved from being melted down.

Nice haul
 
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