Scrap yard find of the week.

[Taylortractornut]

Well I have been at the yard again, actually paying the power bill I looked across the power co lot and saw a Raymond reach swing lift. They hauled it in and I bought a nice set of 42 inch forks, the roller stator steering motor, and a Helac hydraulic rotating joint. I was trying for another motor that offsets it but it was gonna be too hard to pull. I got the 3 other items for 70 dollars. A friend stopped me and asked about the forks so I sold them to him for 125 dollars. I was really after the Helac joint. Its not quite the one I wanted or needed for the tilt bucket I want to build but for 10 bucks I cant complain and I can make it work. THe motor I found will probably go on the circle mill carriage Im about to rebuild.

Still alot of good parts on the lift but its just too much to take apar now got alot of 48 Volt motors and pump driver and new hoses.
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[GrizzyDan]

Gotta love barter.. I've been lookin for a set of forks for a while now, probably going to have to build them out of heavy channel.

I don't think I mentioned.. I didn't get this from the scrapyard.. but it was just about to head there. Picked it up for the price of scrap, $600.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Thats a deal on an industrial loader tractor. Is it an MF looks like a Massey industrial loader on it. Had a man thought he would get rich scrapping his 9300 Ford with a new motor in it. He had a trailer plant and used it to shuffle trailers. He pulled wouldnt sell it and got a whopping 450 for it at the scrap. It was a nice tractor to He turned down 3000 for it from a local man.

You might find a set at a forklift dealer for 150 dollars. They usually keep the old sets but youll have to sign a waiver on their use.

 

[wdchyd]

Good catch on the helac....those are pricey little monsters.....:thumbsup:

Hmmmmm, you got me thinking, a customer has a pair of forktrucks he's scrapping out, I think I'll go have a look-see to see if any salvagable components/forks there......

 

[Taylortractornut]

Fork lifts are a valuable parts source. Heres a list of what I have salvaged of some. THe mast on different lifts can make a nice 3 point fork lift. I took a 3 stage mast off an old Yale/SUmitomo i had and added a 3 point in it. THe new owner can stack hay5 and 6 bales high.

Carriage can make a a 3 point fork.
Mast can have some impressive members for a press or such.
Tilt can supply 2 nice short and powerful 2 way cylinders.
On a 3 stage lift you can get several one way cylinders.
Most of the motors still have alot of life in them and are carburated for good power units.

The steering valve on them are usually Charlyn style and the steering cylinder can be used to add power steering to an older tractor. We did this to the grader at work.

The rear hard tires can be cut off an reused as a nice bushhog replacement wheel. Also 2 with the spindles and hubs can be used on older wider hogs to keep the corners from digging in.

Some of the old 1500 pound lifts the counter weights are thin and tall. I have drilled and tapped them and bolted a draw bar to them for counter weights on loader tractors.

The pumps on most lifts are 2 section pumps the main section is for lifting ande the other is smaller for steering and some are metered. I have a freind that had a older industrial tractor that didnt have power steering and the pump was bad on it. We robbed the pump and steering valve and cylinders off one lift and made a it power steering and used the main pump to run the loader. Made it 3 times stouter and alot faster.

The sides of them can offer some 5/8ths plate some of the rear mebers can supply 4 to 8 inch thick steel blocks for building with.

THe valves can be used to run 1 to3 2 waycircuits with one one way circuit. I put a power curl bucket a friends 8N and replaced the one old vavle with one off a lift. It gave the one way for the hoist and a 2 way for the bucket.

When Im done with a lift its pretty much a hulled out carcass

 

[GrizzyDan]

I'll check out a lift dealer and see if I can get forks like you say, I should have no issues as my lifting capacity is somewhere around 1k for the loader, and I haven't built anything for the 3ph yet.

I keep putting the word out that I'm looking for old used tractors, I'd love to get my hands on a massive loader cylinder from a larger tractor to power a wood splitter/processor with an 8 way or more wedge.

A tractor with a running motor and working pto would be ideal.. the rest could be parted out and it could sit on blocks on the back side of my garage hooked up to a 500gallon diesel tank powering my processor.. the rest of the parts would run many of it's functions.. Just need a few hydraulic motors xD mm that sounds good. lol sorry, got alittle carried away there.

~Edit: Oh, and it's an IH, misread what you said earlier

 

[GrizzyDan]

Just picked up a few more goodies, a few 4" and 5" hyd cylinders, pump, and valves off a case loader. A 3 phase rotary converter with 30 hp motor, and 80'+ of 2' wide conveyor belt from a lumber mill, some trade, mostly free.

Getting really close to starting a firewood processor build thread here.. need to get my hands on some 1" thick I-beam and plate.

 

[gtrippleb]

There's a place in Sanford, NC called Lee Iron and Metal that buys and sells scrap to the public.

Every day from like 12 to 1 it's open to the public to pick through the yard. The time frame is during their lunch time so you don't have to worry about loaders or fork lifts driving around. I've found quite a few nice things over the years.

 

[D7E]

One of my trips into our huge local shredder i saw a nice looking MF35 on top of the pile and some decent looking flat bed 40ft semi trailers being cut up ....I really must stop dragging it home it's piling up faster here than i'm fixing it

 

[Taylortractornut]

The big public shredder wont resell anything to the public. I had one manger that handled my aluminum scrap. He would let me buy alot but hes at another outfit now. I jut started carring the company scrap we haul to the local industrial place and we work together on the scrap.

I may be picking up a MF 50 fork lift this weekend. It has a dead cylinder on the little Perkins. I think its abad injector.

 

[D7E]

The big public shredder wont resell anything to the public. I had one manger that handled my aluminum scrap. He would let me buy alot but hes at another outfit now. I jut started carring the company scrap we haul to the local industrial place and we work together on the scrap.

I may be picking up a MF 50 fork lift this weekend. It has a dead cylinder on the little Perkins. I think its abad injector.

Thats a pity our local one is great they just weigh you out !

 

[pete59]

The top picture is when I bought the home made tractor and the second picture is after we put one of our Grove Gear boxes on. It is more efficient with this gear box than it was with the other transmission. The last picture in the transmission that was on there. It was a Tenual from Cleveland. Transmission is 3 speed GM, as is the rear end. It will pull a full load just about idling at 5 mph with me on it. The last picture is my boys having with with the original tractor.

 

[nnaatz]

yep.... i paid money for it!!!! bought it last fall. it steers with brakes, gots a nissian motor with a 4 or 5 speed coupled to a 3 speed reduced and chain driven to a pair of shortened dana 41 axles and theres a bucket tooooo...

 

[petes]

Well I have been at the yard again, actually paying the power bill I looked across the power co lot and saw a Raymond reach swing lift. They hauled it in and I bought a nice set of 42 inch forks, the roller stator steering motor, and a Helac hydraulic rotating joint. I was trying for another motor that offsets it but it was gonna be too hard to pull. I got the 3 other items for 70 dollars. A friend stopped me and asked about the forks so I sold them to him for 125 dollars. I was really after the Helac joint. Its not quite the one I wanted or needed for the tilt bucket I want to build but for 10 bucks I cant complain and I can make it work. THe motor I found will probably go on the circle mill carriage Im about to rebuild.

Still alot of good parts on the lift but its just too much to take apar now got alot of 48 Volt motors and pump driver and new hoses.
Technology Sliding Spline Demo - Hydraulic Rotary Actuators | Helac

That brought back some memories... Just out of highschool I worked for Helac as "low man on the totem pole" in the Engineering department as a drawing-refiler/draftsman/truckdriver and parts--deburrer-when-someone-on-the-line-called-in-sick. Great design for low backlash, high torque rotary acutators. The rows of helical gearcutters running all the time in the shop were fascinating to watch on my way through. That was back in 1989-ish. I hope you like it!

 

[D7E]

yep.... i paid money for it!!!! bought it last fall. it steers with brakes, gots a nissian motor with a 4 or 5 speed coupled to a 3 speed reduced and chain driven to a pair of shortened dana 41 axles and theres a bucket tooooo...

Now that is a strange animal ...interesting !

 

[Taylortractornut]

NNaatz there used to be a hand on here that went by the name of Nobull that had a differential skid steer like that. I have a freind that did the same thing made a rear engined rig with 2 rear ends on it and a chain drive. to them. He skidded logs and stayed in the swampwith it alot. It steered fast to.

THats a neat unit.

 

[GrizzyDan]

That skid-steer looks like a lot of fun!

 

[Sledge740]

I hauled an old car to the local crusher yard to get a few bucks. Right inside the gate was a 8N hood with the grill and fuel tank. I asked the manager what he would take for the hood. He said he didn't sell stuff because if he let one person buy stuff he would be over run with pickers. I offered to trade my 3000 pound car for it and he still said no. I'm looking for a better place to sell my scrap metal.

 

[wdchyd]

Sledge,

I had a local town recycling center (where the steel is given to them) say no picking.......off to the side was a pile the town employees scooped up for themselves......

 

[Taylortractornut]

I stooped to a new low this week. I have a friend that is desperately in need of a new turning plow. There was one in the grinder yard and i was up there driving a dump for a freind. I saw a like new Dearborn 2/14 breaking plow the county landfills truck was dumping out. I walked over to one of the employees and told him that plow that was dumped out was stolen off my place this 2 weeks ago. He wrote me a pass I had to pay 25 cents a pound back for it. I know I lied but my friend was tickled. THe landfill actually is taking scrap illegally as MS is a now working face recycling state. Meaning when its dumped out on the face its not supposed to be scavenged.