Well, had a great time yesterday with joediveguy in the yard, and I met nickd there as well. Always great to spend time with other Steel Soldiers saving parts for our projects and other SS members.
Didn't take many pictures - to be honest this time of year the yard is overgrown with weeds and you can't see what is there beyond right in front of your face. The scrappers are still there in force, making small pieces of steel out of large ones. The piles don't get any smaller, though, since Coleman's always buys stuff to junk out. The temp was hot as ****, and we ran into some beehives that didn't like us too much, but no snakes and other bad things.
Here's the pictures that I took:
pic 1: Couple winches that I saw on a pallet, ready for install....
pic 2: Some cable reels. The cables are RF cables for antenna installations, but the reels are heavy duty and would be good for industrial hose reels too.
pic 3: How many SINCGARS radio mounts do you need? One part of the yard had them littered EVERYWHERE.
pic 4: the remains of a pioneer tool kit trailer body. This was once a solid good condition trailer until a dozer ran into it. Not a straight piece of metal on it. Sad....
pic 5: Our haul, my stuff on right and joe's stuff on left. He managed to snag a few CUCV parts, 3 fuel can mounts, and a pile of M101 trailer bow corners and small pieces to restore...
pic 6: got a bunch of these! Brand new M1008/M1009 CUCV antenna brushguards. I bought 20 of these to save for other guys, will be in the classifieds soon.
pic 7: few torque wrenches, they are small ones but they look in nice condition and were in the SCRAP piles!
pic 8: box of other things I saved - GRC-106 mount side brackets, couple of plastic cases for TA-1 field phones, original AB-243 antenna mount for M37, CUCV shackle, deuce shackle, and bridge plate numbers for a SS member who wanted them
pic 9: Two pintle hitches that had just been torched off of trailers by the heat-wrench users. These are same size as used on jeeps. Will be in Classifieds soon.
Great trip, have to go back up there soon!