A Morning At The Scrap Yard

 A good time is the occasional exploratory trip to the local metals salvage yard...

Inspirational, too...

We sure would like to get a hold of about 12ft of this heavy cable chain - it immediately inspired a welded metal sculpture project we've been thinking about for about the past five years since first view - gonna' need an air/gas torch set, however, to cut us a section - might finally get around to it now that we have some free time on our hands - might not...

Educational 'ta boot...

Bit of a game trying to identify much of the "inventory", particularly the heavy industrial-looking stuff...

Wonder what these short 3-4ft length pipe sections were used for?

Straight line cylinder head off somethin' big...

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Big electromagnet crane attachment - was wonderin' whether this was scrap or yard equipment. Was buried a bit toward the rear of the works...

Some of this stuff doesn't appear in too bad of condition compared to replacement cost new...

Metal shapes aplenty...

Some aggressive tread on this mangled cheap-lookin' bicycle...

Our guess - rotors for some very high pressure  progressive cavity pumps for the fracking industry...??

We figure that we're correct maybe 80% of the time with our recognition.

We were searchin' today for some old gauges and a bored metal flange for a prop for a new stop motion film project - didn't find a (workable) flange, that metal hoop will do... $4...

!!...We'll be back.