Right?? That's what I told my boy as we were watching it. I'm sure over the course of history there have been as many (or more) scrapped as dismantled for parts, but still hard to watch.I can't get my head around this. You would think there's enough parts in em not to do this ****.
If that was the case then IMHO the owner was greedy or a lazy mongrel or maybe both. It doesn't take much research to find out there is a great renaissance around the world in restoring old machines.That dozer had grass growing in the track frame. Full of fluids too. Likely broke down and was left in place for a long time... Until someone got tired of looking at it.
There are alot of parts laying around for old machines most are like the rig they are needed for worn out.I can't get my head around this. You would think there's enough parts in em not to do this ****.
It is no less sad than the guillotine steel sheets chopping up planes in the desert. Of course the war planes were antiquated almost immediately, but some part of me can't abide by it.[/QUOTE I received a tender quite a few years ago to smash up a squadron of DH C4's ( Caribou's) and bury them for the Australian Defence Force. At the time I was flat out with work I never bothered going any further with it. I now look back and think what an idiot I was as I may have been able to purchase the lot for a dollar. They could have become an excellent fire fighting aircraft and Viking Air in Canada have parts on the shelf.
I have just pulled down a hi flow water pump which is nearly 50 years old but still can shift 12 tons a minute. A part in the internals has been damaged and unless I pay a huge amount of $s I'm buggered. I talked to a good mate about it and he says no worries I have a mould ,so it's going into a Crystabell and we'll pour a new one.
This sort of stuff is sadly fast becoming a dying art and every one wants new parts off the shelf . I think these old machines that are getting scraped will still have parts in them even if worn could be used as moulds for sand casting.
Burt Monroe left a legacy on how to do stuff that not many are picking up on
I received a tender quite a few years ago to smash up a squadron of DH C4's ( Caribou's) and bury them for the Australian Defence Force. At the time I was flat out with work I never bothered going any further with it. I now look back and think what an idiot I was as I may have been able to purchase the lot for a dollar. They could have become an excellent fire fighting aircraft and Viking Air in Canada have parts on the shelf.It is no less sad than the guillotine steel sheets chopping up planes in the desert. Of course the war planes were antiquated almost immediately, but some part of me can't abide by it.
sometimes inheritors of an estate just get rid of it asap. roving scrap dealers are like vultures. if i died tomorrow, my wife would call one and all my treasures that are not currently running would be gone in a heartbeat
That scrap yard is overseas probably Asia where you don't see many if any track loaders to begin with.
Definitely Asia, probably Japan or Korea... Japan invented planned obsolescence and to them it's practically a religion. The finally converted CAT sadly, the perpetual parts supply is no more.I felt like I was watching a praying mantis devour another insect!!
I suspected the scrap yard was not in the US when I saw the truck axle in the background. The hub is more European looking, or perhaps Asia. US environmental agencies would be all over that yard for spilling all the oil they did too.