A day at the scrap yard...

[Marks DTM Calib]

Had an enjoyable few hours at the scrap yard yesterday......a rather large one 'up north'.

Not on a car mind....and I cant give to many details as its a bit of a touchy subject on some forums.

Needless to say, we got loads of spares for our little hobby!

And its the first time in years that I have been to a yard where you get stuck in and remove the items yourself

[Dishevelled Den]

Had an enjoyable few hours at the scrap yard yesterday......a rather large one 'up north'.

Not on a car mind....and I cant give to many details as its a bit of a touchy subject on some forums.

Needless to say, we got loads of spares for our little hobby!

And its the first time in years that I have been to a yard where you get stuck in and remove the items yourself

...makes for an even more enjoyable day

[waspy]

Had an enjoyable few hours at the scrap yard yesterday......a rather large one 'up north'.

Not on a car mind....and I cant give to many details as its a bit of a touchy subject on some forums.

Needless to say, we got loads of spares for our little hobby!

And its the first time in years that I have been to a yard where you get stuck in and remove the items yourself

Train scrap yard :-/ :-?

[JamesV6CDX]

And its the first time in years that I have been to a yard where you get stuck in and remove the items yourself

We have a car scrapyard like that here - excellent place...

[Darth Loo-knee]

I wonder what sort of scrapyard it could have been Master? 

[Marks DTM Calib]

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=54.565773,-1.324421&spn=0.003116,0.006877&t=h&z=17

[tunnie]

And its the first time in years that I have been to a yard where you get stuck in and remove the items yourself

We have a car scrapyard like that here - excellent place...

One here too, i am like a kid in a sweetie shop.

That train one looks very interesting, love to go wonder around that. Shame its so far away 

[redelitev6]

  always a nice sense of satisfaction after a good days rummaging about in a scrapyard 

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=54.565773,-1.324421&spn=0.003116,0.006877&t=h&z=17

That's five minutes from my house! How queer!

[Debs.]

I love scrapyards; my favourite "old fashioned scrappy" has mountains of machinery, plant and shipyard sized stock offcuts.....and (most importantly) friendly, 'blind in one eye' workers.

[waspy]

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=54.565773,-1.324421&spn=0.003116,0.006877&t=h&z=17

[redelitev6]

Not T.J Thompsons by any chance? my dad used to be a crane driver there many moons ago!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

One of my most enjoyable memories is of my ex and I in the late 1970s making trips to Dai Woodhams Barry scrap yard when there was still a considerable percentage of the 220+ steam engines he had at one stage:

The famous scene in 1968:



So Mark I would be well at home at any other railway orientated scrap yard, as I am at any car one!! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 

The trouble is it can prove a bit difficult squeezing an engine's wheels in your boot, especially if connected to an axle!!!

[Kevin Wood]

One of my most enjoyable memories is of my ex and I in the late 1970s making trips to Dai Woodhams Barry scrap yard when there was still a considerable percentage of the 220+ steam engines he had at one stage:

The famous scene in 1968:



So Mark I would be well at home at any other railway orientated scrap yard, as I am at any car one!! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 

The trouble is it can prove a bit difficult squeezing an engine's wheels in your boot, especially if connected to an axle!!!

.. and what about freebies? I guess you need pretty big pockets to get out unnoticed. 

Kevin

[Martin_1962]

A few 47s in there!