Hey dave2 need people skills expert

Fritz Maurer · Nov 24, 2011

Do you think it's mean to make sure something is destroyed when you take it to the scrapyard? When you sell something, should it no longer be your business what happens to it? When you want to scrap something, that is of course your business, regardless of the level of stupidity; but to cheat the next owner out of a good deal, just so they don't have something you don't, after you got paid a fair price for your transgression? I composed a seething reply to that post, but deleted it, didn't want to be mean on Thanksgiving. Am I taking this tractor jazz too seriously, and need to chill out?

John in Nebraska · Nov 24, 2011

I once worked at a shop where the mgr. would do this. Usable used tire, he would slash the sidewall. A maybe usable battery, he would punch holes in the top with a punch. Outdated parts, gaskets, he would twist and trash them. We in the shop had a universal feeling toward him that I won't put in print on thanksgiving day.

DeltaRed · Nov 24, 2011

Are you saying that if you can't have it nobody can?Thats "dog in manger" syndrome.If you're going to "scrap" a usable piece of equipment,keep it intact.Someone may come along and NEED that very thing and be very happy to have found it.And if the item is not sold soon,it will be crushed anyway.

Fritz Maurer · Nov 24, 2011

No, not ME... someone else was bragging about this horrendous deed on T.T.; you and I are precisely the same page.

Zachary Hoyt · Nov 24, 2011

I agree with your view. I do not approve of people doing things like that.
Zach

Bob Huntress · Nov 24, 2011

Fritz, If it's my personal scrap. it goes to the srcap yard as is, except for what damage is needed to move or load it. I had to haul a bunch of appliances that were in a ditch on my property. I didn't put any care to not damage something that I was only going to scrap, yet, I wasn't going to destroy further those items, either. I figure that many companies do like the Coast Guard does regarding scrap. I respect the companies that do not send anything to the scrap yard until it has been fully rendered beyond repair.

Keith Williams · Nov 24, 2011

Is that not what the US Goverment did with the "cash for clunkers" program?
They made all the cars they took in "unusable".
Keith

Clodbuster · Nov 24, 2011

If I get paid for scrap, then they will be getting scrap!!!! Body panels will be dented, tires slashed. Axles and other things, left alone usually. It is fun to dent stuff and I never want to meet one of my old 12 year old dry rotted tires coming at me on another car at 65mph.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 25, 2011

(quoted from post at 18:28:45 11/24/11) Do you think it's mean to make sure something is destroyed when you take it to the scrapyard? When you sell something, should it no longer be your business what happens to it? When you want to scrap something, that is of course your business, regardless of the level of stupidity; but to cheat the next owner out of a good deal, just so they don't have something you don't, after you got paid a fair price for your transgression? I composed a seething reply to that post, but deleted it, didn't want to be mean on Thanksgiving. Am I taking this tractor jazz too seriously, and need to chill out?

Mean? No.... Anti social? Youbetcherass......... Would I do it? Depend on circumstances and my mood.......

had a fender and a door once with a for sale sign with decent price in the yard. Guy stopped, looked them all over and said he could get them at the junkyard cheaper (maybe 20 bucks less than I wanted) and that's what he'd give me. Picked up a block I had them leaning on and mashed a big dent in both and said he could just have them.....

Tx Jim · Nov 25, 2011

Have you ever seen a poor junk yard owner? I haven't. My neighbor started a junk yard and 10 yrs later sold it to some foreigners for 4.5 million. If you take some good and usable into to him he'd pay current market scrap price and the sell it for multiple times what he paid for it.

WalJohn · Nov 25, 2011

(quoted from post at 23:07:11 11/24/11) Is that not what the US Goverment did with the "cash for clunkers" program?
They made all the cars they took in "unusable".
Keith

That was because one of the primary reasons fro the "cash for clunkers" was to get the old vehicles off the road. Allowing them to be resold and returned to service would have made the program a bigger waste than it was.

farmer boy · Nov 25, 2011

I don't know if I would do it butI see nothing wrong with it. He's paying you scrap price so he'll get scrap. The local auto salvage yard has scrap price and complete price for a vehicle that is nearly all intact. If I sell it for scrap It's going to get dented to hell trying to load it anyways, so problem solved.

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