This is my first post after using GJ for 2 years and never making an account. I am an EHS director at a scrap yard. Please dont hate on me for being the safety guy. Anyway, there are some really cool benefits to working in a scrap yard and the best is being allowed to pick the piles. My yard does not allow the general public to pick. However, if you are an employee they allow us to pick and anything we find we only have to pay the days current scrap price. I have bought Wilton and Morgan vises for less than 2 cents a pound. I can not believe what some people through out. My yard is kinda unique because we service manufacturing facilities. These factories will through out tools with a ton of life left in them. I have attempted to attach pictures of my finds and this being my first post hopefully if worked. Most of the pictures are after I restored them. Everything pictured I paid less than $2.00 with the exception on the welding table because the top is 1.75" thick and weighs around 500lbs I had to pay about $15.00 for it.
Wilton and Morgan Vises, scrap yard finds
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driftpin
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I can't believe you haven't been inundated with members offering to take those off your hands, before you do anything to them & offering to allow you to 'double your investment,' and in-cash!
I have a scrapyard where I'm allowed to pick, another one got sold, and you can't do any picking now.
I have a scrapyard where I'm allowed to pick, another one got sold, and you can't do any picking now.
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Dumber than lumber
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I am inclined to say “You ****”, but somehow that is just so inadequate for this situation.
Maybe we should nominate you to the SuperSucker Hall of Shame.
Maybe we should nominate you to the SuperSucker Hall of Shame.
I have yet to be inundated because this is the first time posting on GJ. An offer to double my investment would not gain me anything when I paid less that $2.00 for each item. I have been restoring them and selling them to fiends and family for what I have in them. I kept the Morgan 80 and Wilton 6.5 for myself. I kept the Morgan 80 because its not everyday you see such a monster and the Wilton 6.5 has brass jaws. I have the guys at my yard set certain items aside for me so I miss less and dont really have to pick myself.
thehorse13
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I've been going to the wrong scrap yards all my life. I've never been to one with such treasures.
You have my vote for the Super **** Hall of Fame.
You have my vote for the Super **** Hall of Fame.
thehorse13 you have to keep in mind that I am there 9-5, 5 days a week and have a good relationship with the guys station in the yard where such items are found. The guys on the touch pad and foundry steel piles know what I like a set things aside for me. I also do my best to do a lap of the whole yard once a day to look for treasures ... I mean "safety issues".
Dumber than lumber
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PM sent.
coljar
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It's a good thing I don't work at one with good stuff like that coming in. I'd be dragging it home all the time.
Oregon rock crusher
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It is amazing what industrial sites throw in scrap bins these days. Often it is a 5s efficiency sweep of the production facilities that identify unneeded parts and tooling that must be purged. Makes regularly checking out the scrap iron bins worthwhile. Of course not all of the "junk" that gets thrown in the bins ever leaves the sites or gets to the scrap yard but some obviously does. Ed.
ZRX61
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Serrat Yasargil
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Omg
I give up
So depressed
I give up
So depressed
TMcCay
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OMG! I don't know how often a vise shows up, but you could definitely have a nice paying side gig going on if they appeared often enough. Or a retirement fund! Even though I live in Okla. I would be willing to try and buy a Wilton and have it shipped here.
DD T/A
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One mans trash is another mans treasure.
48windsor
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Idget fired and divorced. If I worked there .
I Think DD T/A Nailed it.
Im a self professed scrounge. I look in dumpsters and have found Snapon tools once in a bag thrown away.
I Think DD T/A Nailed it.
Im a self professed scrounge. I look in dumpsters and have found Snapon tools once in a bag thrown away.
Rory Bellows
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Feel free to update this post with your finds. You should start a new thread called "Scrapyard finds" or something. You and Ratdoggy can one up each other. Maybe a few of us regular folk might be in the right place at the right time and be able to join in.
live311
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If you happen to come across a swivel base for a Columbian D44, please let me know
If you happen to come across a swivel base for a Columbian D44, please let me know
I had one for a D45 that was missing a tap so to tossed the base out and drilled the other side so I had two holes to hold it down. Those vises are pretty light duty so I was fine with my mod. When its all cleaned up it will go on my little basement shop bench. Honestly, I always thought stationary vises were pointless but thinking back I cant remember the last time a actually swiveled a vise.
Shiftless
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Another vote for super suckage!
Any size Wilton bullet base would be great!
Plus the bases alone are easy to fit into a flat rate mailing box.
Any size Wilton bullet base would be great!
Plus the bases alone are easy to fit into a flat rate mailing box.
I need the main casting nut for a Wilton 1765. The vise date stamp is 7/99. I have searched the web with no luck. I called Wilton and was told they are 90-120 days out on that part. Part# 2900340AXC.
Dumber than lumber
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Re: Wilton, Morgan, Columbian Vises, scrap yard finds
Life isn't fair.
(OTOH - I've gotten better treatment than I deserve most of my life.)
Life isn't fair.
(OTOH - I've gotten better treatment than I deserve most of my life.)
SweetD
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One man gathers what another man spills. - Robert Hunter
What an opportunity, perhaps a new superhero?
SALVAGEMAN!
Great stuff, thanks for sharing - -
Dave
What an opportunity, perhaps a new superhero?
SALVAGEMAN!
Great stuff, thanks for sharing - -
Dave
Shiftless
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About $0.52So...
Did it cost you 1 dollar?
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Shiftless
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I am still amazed at your good fortune. Nice fringe benefit!
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thehorse13
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I can't even look at this post without shaking. lol.
Someone else has already said it but thank God I don't work there. I'd need 30 acres of storage given the endless stream of junk I'd drag home.
Someone else has already said it but thank God I don't work there. I'd need 30 acres of storage given the endless stream of junk I'd drag home.
cmccoy
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I pick my local scrap yard and am always excited about the treasures I find. I live near Terre Haute, Indiana
Unruh
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Wow! Do you plan on refurbishing most of those? Great finds!
I would love to restore all of them but I really dont have the time right now. Im selling my house soon and have too many projects to wrap up. Plus I bought a truck that had so many oil leaks I decided it would be easier to pull the motor. So I have to get that all back together. PM me if you see anything you want I am open to offers right now.