A Look inside the CRAZY week of a junk man. HOW do I do it? Loading batteries, crushing cars & more! 

i remember in 1993, my mom had a 1979 canary yellow Ford Fairmont, rusty as heck, whenever you hit a water puddle, you better lift your feet.

And I though my work week as a school bus driver was nuts. Your work week was crazy as heck Silas.

Glad to see that you're helper is sticking around

Don't you hate it when the purchasing company wants you to have their work done for them? Need to find who they sell to, middlemen are lazy

Busy busy busy, never boring for you and your dad. Not sure what’s wrong with the guys you hire but they should be grateful for a job. Great vid Silas. 🇦🇺🇦🇺

What I like about your videos is you are an excellent narrator! All of your content is interesting to me. Somehow I'd like to see you eat a sandwich or take a break or take a drink of ice cold tea or whatever you prefer to drink on a hot day. I know you work super hard so seeing you have some refreshment/food would be the icing on the cake. Or you could say watching you do all that work makes me hungry. 🌭🥨🥪🍟🍕🍗🥩🌮🥙🍜🦞🥡🥡🥡🥡🥡🥡

Can't get help, can't get help! Just about every where I go now I hear this Where are people getting money if they are not working? Silas you may be young but you work like people did as they say (back in the day) keep up the great vedios, you are a good man!!

Nice of the driver to help you to load his truck for him. I guess no-one can get good help, these days. 😐

I enjoyed the update on lack of help and the city nagging about the exterior appearance of the property

Look on the bright side, things could be worse. It could be me that had to load those batteries!!

Great video! It sound like if the battery recycleing company was a scrap yard, it would only accept cleaned, detailed, rust-free square bodies! Sounds like that person should go back behind their desk and sit down. When I would sell batteries, the company would bring their own semi, opened up 250 gallon caged plastic containers, and we would stack my batteries into them. Of course I only had around 300 batteries at a time.

The council seems like hard work. Maybe you should run for mayor!

Concrete block companys have a machine with an arm that swings around cubes of block and wraps them with plastic wrap.

Great video as always Silas. Thanks.

Hey, Silas, When you are loading platels like that, I would place the first one dead center and push it down the truck with the next and so on till you have 4 or5 on the truck. then go up in the truck to place them

Guess truck loading is different than in the 70s. I worked on a dock, my boss yanked the driver out of the cab of the truck and told him to get his butt in the trailer and help out...or spend the rest of his life on the dock.

A suggestion on the cardboard you will need. Talk to a local retailer that sells gun safes, all safes come with good quality cardboard in a box configuration with no bottom because they are on pallets. Most of the time they just get rid of the cardboard however they can, particularly if scrap paper prices are low.

I get so damn tired watching you exhaust yourself. Better you than me. You're a hardworking man. God Bless.

Tales of the junk man! Crushing cars and making coin! If you ever get a chance get the battery powered strapper. Saves time and easier to handle.

Thanks Silas! Nothing worse than doing all that work to have it rejected, I hope they took the batteries and not had them shipped back to you. Hope you find some to help you, there's plenty of offers in the comments!

My back hurts. 👍👍👍

My dad owned a salvage yard and the city was always on him about something to never ending deal. But glad you got the trees cleaned up. Another great video as always. It’s sad you can not find anyone to work because you could be teaching someone some good knowledge of your trade. It’s hard work but it’s a honest living. Thank you so much for your time and sharing with all of us. Just love your videos keep them coming. You are such a hard worker.

In the country I live in, its the drivers job to wheel pallets within the confines of the trailer.

For a good job on everything else is good for you.

Ouch ouch ouch this episode made my back go out just watching. That’s a lot of battery stacking going on! When I was young I would have felt like the luckiest person alive to work a job like that. What’s wrong with young people today?

Also an electric pallet jack might be handy

I still enjoy the work that you do.

Good luck on finding help. This is the first video I've watched

Man…. I remember working in a grocery store and having to load up those semi trucks. That was a pain in the ass😩😩😩

Man, it seems like you and your dad are always busier than a one legged man in an ass kickin contest.

Work Work is their ever time for you to rest with family. Hard worker.

I used to work at Oreilly's. We did not ship same size batteries per load . That's impossible to realize. Also Oreilly's uses corrugated fold up plastic boxes as a container to put them in . Your battery company just wants to be difficult.

I have a CRX with a decal on the windshield right now that says "if you don't like my driving get off the sidewalk" love it! Great video

Soooooooo many Batteries and all that Weight - wow ! The Olympics of Stacking Batteries ! Loading up that Brush ! Shame that People do NOT want to Work - whats wrong with them - its rude to say - yes I start for You Tomorrow and never show up ! So sad ! Great Video and we are now well Informed about Batteries - ha-ha-ha ! Many Cheers from us in Australia !!!!

Great content before midnight with a great length. Thanks, Silas!

you could have the truck driver drop the air on the drives to lessen the grade you haft to pull or push the pallets to the front of trailer.

If I was a younger man,I’m 70, I would help you out for sure!

I used to work at a ford assembly plant.. during just one 10 hour shift I would install 690 batteries..it was the second hardest job in the plant because of all that weight..first few batteries were light..but after that they started getting heavier and heavier..and that 690th battery felt like it weighed 690 lbs 🦾🤣🤣

Hey Silas, I have 60 plus good to excellent pallets, you are more than welcome to have them.

Awesome always cool stuff always 😎

Really enjoy the vids were you remove converters, engines & radiators with the front loader. You're a damn surgeon with that thing.

Silas, next time rent a telescopic forklift like on a construction site! Put your pallets in and push the others with another pallet. drove tractor trailer for 34yrs.. thats how it's done! Or you could try the same with your loader make a push ----------------/ rod for use for all these situations.. ya work too hard my friend!

Nice vid! Really enjoyed to watch!

you ought to bank those squarebodies they are the tri fives of the future

Hi. Have u thought using 1000l plastic conteiner for batterys and small stuff? They use these in estonia. 😄 It would be cleaner then pallets and you can put them full withput rope

You are a hard working man! Battery shipping using such strict rules sounds like a lot of unnecessary excuses. What a fiasco. Thanks for sharing your time. Peace

Wish you were in Michigan, I would come work for you in a heartbeat. I'm not afraid of hard work.

I'd take a job with Silas i miss that kinda work

When old battery's get to the recycler ,they tip them in to a big crusher and smash them to bits to get the plastic and metal separated . What does it matter if they are different sizes ?? .It sounds like the receiver has a megga dose of OCD and needs the pallets to be all neat and tidy !

That is the way it is

If I was living in Hutchinson I would love to come work with you, I have worked for 2 different salvage yards in Lawrence and Topeka. There's nothing that I am scared to do. I even have used the Link belt and the John Deer track hors in the salvage yard along with the old P&H track hoe with the magnet, forklifts, and I run the scale house.

Can I make a suggestion on your batteries if you can find a long pipe that'll fit on your forks and you can slide that pallet up the trailer with that pipe I don't know if I'd tear the pallet up but you it's worth a try also when you go to those auctions look and see if you can find an old marigold round or you can set the pallets on there and make it a lot easier on you to put the Saran wrap around it just an idea

Silas look into buying what they call gaylords from your local grocery stores or warehouses. Gaylords are a pallet full size box like they ship watermelons in out of texas, one box use to cost 10-15 each but they are very sturdy and thick sides.. you can break them down and put in storage just for this type of battery loads.. then no wrapping, come with whole box and top..

I love junkyards, I always wanted to be a scrapper.

Love your channel keep up the good work.

Ya it a grate day

Try some tireject, "One Lonely Farmer" swears by it and has a video where they use it on a tractor tire then shot it full of bullet holes. Still holds air and he has used all kinds of other stuff that don't work.

While everyone is saying to get an electric pallet jack, I say build a loading dock (concrete platform is sufficient) with 85ft in front of it for an 18 wheeler. Then just keep a little forklift on the loading dock level to drive into the trailer with the pallets. Using the loader forks from ground level isn't great, because you can't get each pallet past the pallet jack. Every operation loading dry van 53ft trailers needs a loading dock, the patience of a saint, or a good back surgeon and cardiologist. Even if only using an electric pallet jack to load a truck from dock height, not having to turn the pallet jack around inside the truck, like you do when loading from ground level, is a big deal. On the other hand, you can't even keep your scale clear enough for use by 18 wheelers, so what are the chances you'd keep a loading dock area clear, clean, and usable? It would be a big adjustment to declare certain spaces as off-limits for sitting anything, ever, treating it like it's a fire lane. In a way, it's a fire lane for operating efficiently, because when access is blocked, your business profits are burning down.

It's inconceivable that there are people who would thumb their nose at $50.00 an hour work. It seems that unless it's super easy work some people won't consider any job, even at $50.00 an hour. Maybe you can get some high school kids to work for you part time like one salvage yard did in my town. They learned about cars and trucks while helping to strip parts from junk and wrecked vehicles but they also learned a work ethic which is something that a lot of teens are lacking.

There are electric mini pallet handlers made to load trailers. I don’t know how much traffic you have with these used batteries.

Hard working man

Have you thought about ordering a flatbed instead of a dry van so you can load with loader with plastic wrap and tarp they wouldn't go anywhere

Silas the trailer is 8 feet wide you should have enough room to make a U-turn with a pallet jack this is why we push a wheelbarrow and we do not pull a wheel barrel I don’t want you to wreck your back push the skid to the front of the trailer don’t pull it

Love this content.

If it was me I would stack the batteries up on pallets as I took them out of the cars. Then it wouldn't be a Madd rush to get them ready for the truck.

Do get some special buzz on the shrooms when u get them buttered

Where the hell is the driver, he should be helping. In Australia it's the drivers responsibility to load his truck.

Put the battery’s on a pallet as they come in

With the plastic wrap take a weight bar put one roll an 2 weights on each side or all threads and PVC end caps

If i could i would love get out of the salvage business there is forever some kind of deal like your battery deal.

I like your channel very much you were working your ass off loading those skids by yourself I used to put one up and then the next one I push it forward and then I just keep putting them on with the end motor 1 2 3 4 till I get almost to the where it's still in the whole trailer then I go in the front move the one forward some you might lose a few minutes but you better off putting that one forward and then everyone you can push them a little bit at a time if you get somebody up there to adjust anyway it might not help you and it might not be right I worked all my life I'm 67 retired and disabled and I live in Illinois okay thank you

Enjoy all your videos

That piece in your tire looks like a headlight bezzle bolt

That battery recycler is a jerk. We have many sizes from the equipment I work on. Our stacks are like yours. All sizes. We just have one pallet every so often.

Silas do any of those batteries still have a service life left in them? Just wondering if you guys would be a good source of some batteries for an off grid cabin solar system.

Could just push the pallets in one by one with the loader might save your back

I don't understand these got your helpers I know it's a hard job but there's always going to be work you make good money I'm from Oklahoma

Can't believe the rubbish that company came out with and all the hard work you've put into it

Wish I was close to where you're at I would help you everyday but I'm in Kentucky

I’m tired all ready!!!!!😅

Lower the trailer so you are going down hill?😂❤.

Save the tail lights off of that Ford fairmont, they sell very well.

The companies I worked for only had to the skids on the back of the trailer and it was the drivers job to move them forward.

Even though it woukd be harder to load and a little more expensive ( maybe ) what if you use the boxes like you use for your converters?

That one intake looked to be small block Mopar

Unless he disposed of them all, Anthony over at Hardcore Fab has a bunch of pallets at the old Larabee Mill.

I know it's alot of money but solid tires would save you alot of time and money .

You need a pallet machine!

Why don't you lay out 4 or 6 pallets for each different size battery and stack battery's according to size and shape..... be less handling and restacking....

Have driver pull trailer wheels up on some lumber and then have him drop air on truck suspension. All down hill bud.

Check out Dennis Collins video at Port of Dallas lots of grain trucks going to Europe so there is a market

I hope you tipped that driver some lunch money

Maybe you should polish them

I know I'll get my ass chewed out, but anyways, Silas, they do make a portable battery op baling tool that melts the bands together and cuts. No metal buckles. Would save you time. And moving batteries from a truck bed to a pallet is ludicrous. I know, you don't want to put them on pallets because the pallet will rot. Ok, put the pallet in a truck bed or in a covered box truck, then take it out when its full and park it under cover if you're so worried about the pallet rotting. Or stack it on double pallets so the bottom one is the one rotting. Any time you're double handling heavy batteries, you're doing it inefficiently. Just my sincere attempt to help you. Now you can chew me out.

Silas if you come across a frame for a 96 Chevy Extended cab with box or whole truck I'm interested. My brother in law is in Waco and has my old truck there. You seem to come across some older stuff.

That battery company is out of its freaking mind.. Do they want you to cut down the largest tree in the forest with a Herring? Monty Python

Our company has a policy that we don’t get in another companies trailer.

And I thought moving pallets with paper was bad … that looks harsh

Wish I could’ve worked with you lol

Cyrus. If I was near. I'd work for you.