What should I do ?

[Old Doug]

I am always thinking WHAT SHOULD I DO ? I was talking to my brother a couple days ago . I was thinking about hauling a load of aluminum . He said why don't you haul shred right now then haul your aluminum later this summer. I promised a buddy I would clean up some stuff at his farm so yesterday I hauled 2 loads . It went good so I thought for once I was doing the right thing but then last night it rained. I went there today and there is standing water every were . If it doesn't rain it will take several days to dry out so I guess I am loading aluminum?

 

[Old Doug]

I have a BAD JOB to do . I have a motor home to scrap/get rid of. It was my dads . I tried to give it away and had 6 people look at it but that didnt work. The scrap yards will not take it the way it is . So I will have to take it some what apart so there won't be so much trash stuff that isnt metal. It has a fiberglass skin . The first thing will be to take all the windows out of it break the glass out of the frames then scrap the aluminium frames then cut most of the fiberglass skin off. This is not a money making thing its a get rid of deal. It was way back off the road were if it rains i couldnt work on it so yesterday i towed it up to were i could get to it. This is one of the deals on my farm clean up list that is at the top of the list as BAD JOBS . Maybe some how it wont be as bad as I think???

 

[DDoug]

FIRE comes to mind ^^^^ on this job.....

 

[colson04]

I've torn down a camper before. I used a skid steer to smash it up, then scooped the material into a dump trailer. Load the trailer, smash/compact the load, add more, repeat. I got the entire 20ft camper condensed into one dump trailer load for the dump. I did strip the aluminum skin and roof off for scrap, but didn't get too picky when dismantling the rest. You have a skid steer. Just smash it down and load it out. I saved the trailer frame for a different project.

I actually have another trailer to tear down as the mold damage is too much to want to salvage the trailer.

 

[Old Doug]

FIRE comes to mind ^^^^ on this job.....

I have had a lot of stuff that could have been safely burnt but it dosent end after the fire is out . So I think its been a lot easyer to cut stuff up and haul it to a place were i pay to get rid of it. I wish i had a big building i could put it in and rip it apart the sweep up the mess but outside if i rip it apart cleanup will be a deal.

 

[colson04]

I have had a lot of stuff that could have been safely burnt but it dosent end after the fire is out . So I think its been a lot easyer to cut stuff up and haul it to a place were i pay to get rid of it. I wish i had a big building i could put it in and rip it apart the sweep up the mess but outside if i rip it apart cleanup will be a deal.

It's not that big of a deal to clean up after even if done outside.

 

[Old Doug]

It's not that big of a deal to clean up after even if done outside.

I am going to start on it and see how things go then figure out the best deal . My brother has a bigger skid steer on tracks and a better grapple bucket if i had his help i probably would have tore it apart.

 

[Old Doug]

Between some health problems,a lot of other projects and it being cold out side I haven't worked on this deal any. I want to and have been working on and getting done a few small jobs . I think its better to get a few small projects done and out of the way than work on a bunch of stuff at one time and not get much done. I hope the future is better and i hope i remember what i have learned.

 

[Old Doug]

I got the motor home scraped. My brother came over with his Kubota skidsteer and grapple bucket . We hauled a big load on my f600 truck and his Dump trailer to the local dump. Then we cut the frame up and sold it for scrap iron. It cost about $250.00 to get rid of the trash and the frame brought around $300.00. There is a little stuff to clean up were we took it apart. I am VERY Glade to get rid of it. Its been a deal cleaning up stuff my Dad had . After we got that done i loaded another load of stuff to go to the trash place to haul next week.

 

[John Shipp]

Did you break it up on a clear concrete area, or just out on some dirt?

Years ago used to be a sugar beet loading area I could use most of the year when there were no beet, it was solid concrete and had a 5 ft concrete wall on three sides. Handiest thing in the world for those kind of jobs.

 

[HarleyHappy]

I have a pad, that I put in my father’s back field 40 years ago. It’s 30x30 with it in 2 half’s, draining all to the middle seam. On one side, I installed 2 concrete rectangle Jersey barriers. In my teens, I scrapped cars, as my first welding/mechanic job was at a shredder/hammer mill.
I would completely cut the cars up and scrap them and sell the steel and aluminum and copper at the placed I worked at. I also bought a open bay ramp truck to pick the cars up.
I made a lot of money off that pad and it was great to work on.
Unfortunately I had my uncle float in too much grade as now, I would love to build a garage out of it, as the pad is still in good shape.
This was back when concrete was 40 bucks a yard for 5000 psi, it would cost a fortune to straighten it out now and being that I would have to put another meter in for power, I just use it for parking and still work on it when needed.

 

[Old Doug]

Did you break it up on a clear concrete area, or just out on some dirt?

Years ago used to be a sugar beet loading area I could use most of the year when there were no beet, it was solid concrete and had a 5 ft concrete wall on three sides. Handiest thing in the world for those kind of jobs.

We did it out in the dirt lucky there wasnt a bunch of weeds and brush so there wasnt a bunch of small stuff to pickup afterwards .