It's interesting looking at different scenarios. years ago we had a smaller junk yard in our town. Mr Art Sanderson owned it everyone called him uncle art. He was a big part of my life and a lot of teenagers in my area. He was the go too guy when we were working on our cars. He passed away a number of years ago. I think of him often. Such a helpful man. Thanks Silas you've brought back a lot of really great memories
Enjoyed the different take on this vid! Glad that yellow IH crewcab found a home, looks like a good one to bring back. YES - the time frame to crush everything is really longer than that because of all the other things(sorting, cleanup, etc.) that go with it always get in the way of 'straight productivity'. Not to mention then the fuel, servicing equipment, etc. that's a part of it to. Cool video, good job!
Very interesting video. Gives a different perspective on just how many vehicles you have on the property. Throughly enjoy watching the videos you release. Thank you. I have been watching your channel since I discovered it when you were doing farm clean ups. Very worthwhile entertainment.
Silas, if you crushed it all, within a week it would be back to how it was and you would be just as busy! You know the song Never Ending Story by Limahl? That plays in my head every morning when I open the workshop 😂
@@AdventuresMadeFromScratch 🇺🇲 I just can't figure out WHY people buy large trucks from you and what they do with them. Do they restore them, but then what? In your next video could you take 2¼ minutes to explain or even 30 seconds❓
@@Mr.Howell78k Most of the people who buy from me just resell either parts or projects to people in the rust belt or coasts. Big truck cabs are the same as small truck cabs. Front clips are different but some people use the big clips anyway.
@@AdventuresMadeFromScratch okay that's good to know and thank you. I want to say that I'm not familiar with the term "clips", not sure 📎📎 what that is¿? 📐📐📐📐📐📐 What's the update on the house you demolished ❓❓❓❓❓❓
@@AdventuresMadeFromScratch Ok, people buy to resell, but are people really driving around in restored old farm trucks? If so, that's a trend I've never seen 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐 still a little puzzling. *Smaller truck cabs I have seen used in Rat-rods. Happy grilling 🥩🍔🌭
My dad and uncles had a used car lot when I was a little boy before I started school. I used to make used car lots in a bare dirt spot in my neighbors yard.
That's a strange lookin camper for it's weird roof at 5:22. I wonder what the inside looks like? 😉 Thanks for the tallying Silas, I bet it took awhile, stayin tuned! 😎👍👍👍👍
WOW, that's a lot of tonage. I'm looking for front turn signal lights for a 1958 GMC pickup . I think they are the same on all the 58s. If you have some give me your price . thank you Silas. Stephen Lance
Interesting video and concept of identifying your value. I thought of you as I passed through South Hutch and ate at Carriage Crossing and flew back to Georgia. Cheers... Mike
Sir love all your videos I'm a fifty-year-old man and my family originally came over here from Italy and located in Franklin Kansas in the Southeast corner of the state the whole town was leveled by a tornado I'm just curious if you've ever heard of that town now there's just a museum they're of the former town have you ever heard of that town before sir
.....seems like - at 50 years old - you are too early to be having dementia....but your incoherent babbling makes one wonder if you have gone off your meds ?? What is the big secret about the name of the town ?? How does anyone know the name if you are keeping it a secret ??
I regret a lot of stuff i scrapped 20-40 years ago.72 mach one mustang,1966 chevelle convertible.Drove both cars.Where you going to buy parts?Back then,today repo parts.Have an auction,have equipment to load. Don't crush them, save the environment and some marriages.Guys have dreams, years making it perfect,not driving down the road, away from the wife.Perfect!
When are you going to go through your trailers? I think that would be a great idea for the video. You said you would have one. The next question is when. Great channel and content. God bless
interesting to think that your total value of vehicles in your yard would not cover the cost of replacement of your operating assets, skid steer, Loader, crusher your pickup and other tools and equipment. Should dispel any ideas the viewers had of your business being easy money. If it was that easy the world would be covered in scrapyards.
i think he should start thinking about how to deal it. as new safety and enviromental requarements come. Basically stuff is droping oil and chemicals, it must have concrete or asfalt on soil and water collection system with filters. He doesnt know , but this will come eventually.
Go to your local Ventrack dealer and buy one of their tractors with a brush mower attachment on the front to cut down all of your shrubs and small trees
Great Drone View - You got a Lot of STUFF - wow ! Counting them all Up - man - still a lot of Vehicles and Money - but hey Silas - You love them all ! Taking Stoke and Looking at all Your Inventory is a must as You need to know what You have !!!! This was a Needed Exercise ! Your Scrap Car and Truck Yard is the Biggest Adventure there is ! Many Cheers from Australia !!!!
This isn't a criticism of you or your father or the business. I'd like to see the stacks of wrecks, old appliances, buses, and just junk metal - gone! I am not talking about the antiques or highly collectible rarities. Those you are able to turn into "art", well that's another aspect of the business. There never seems to be a lack of junkers and wrecks coming into the yard. Seems like those represent a return on your investment. The massive mounds of tires never seem to disappear, and that's all over the country. Keeping the land clear is a positive, isn't it? Okay, balancing when red metals are high and aluminum becomes more precious is the game, yes? I'm thinking of removing the piles of iron and steel. However, you know your business better than I do. I really do enjoy your videos!
We have a parts yard, and we don't crush anything until there is no parts left, Salvage is the only option for alot of old car collectors. Anything pre 1980 we save in the back rows
Always interesting and I love watching. If I were to put my business consultant hat on, I’d wonder if you could make a lot more money with some systemation of your operation. Might be tough as a one man band, but I Louie to see people do well.
@@AdventuresMadeFromScratch I get it. My dad had a small business and never wanted employees. If he really needed it, he’d get family and friends to help out. It was a printing business and I could run the presses from age 10.
What would happen? The grass would grow, the bunnies would hop, and your wallet would be so thick you would sit funny. Problem county wants to convert to a wind farm.
Howdy Silas I like ur videos and I have couple ideas for you on videos 1 you do a scrap run urself n show how another scrap yard works pays 2nd is just crush cars and stock pile them and when prices keep going up sell bcuz u'll have crushed cars ready so grab n go load. That's what our late family friend did he'll crush n stack and wait when time was right grab n go sell plus it cleans up the yard. I think would be nice to see some of the wall artwork u sell as a final piece?? Ty from David Lindsey a shout out please....
I like this video. Always like walking around an old junkyard just to see what you could find. I still want that green crew cab Dodge. Stay safe. I'll see you on the next one.
Thanks for the time and tour of your place. The camper around back of you is it an Alaskan camper ? Do you ever get any of those geo metro convertibles. anyway really love your videos from Texas
Thank you very much Mr Silas. I enjoyed looking at the variety of American old and new junk Iron. Good luck and stay well to your family and friends. I hope you are not offended by my calling you Mr Silas ? ?. JR/UK
At 5:33 there is a little camper behind your right shoulder. IT'S SO COOL LOOKING Looks like it has a mohawk. If you crushed everything, then what would you have for the future months or years? You would have to buy more after you crushed and sold them.
Great intro/outro music Silas and as always, great editing! 📸🇺🇲 I love your Junkyard Treasure Hunts especially because you are not to proud to include pennies - when daily you earn so much more💲💲💲💲💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💲💲💲💲
With the fluctuating scrap market wouldn’t it be better to have everything crushed ready to ship? Then when the market is right you ship 50 cars or 100.
The regulations on what you have to do to the cars before shipping them change continually, so if you crush them in advance you may have to rip them apart and crush them again differently.
About a decade ago, we crushed hundreds of cars out of a buddies yard. He ran sales for about a month so people wouldn't complain that he crushed something they needed. The scrapyard he deals with brought a couple mobile crushers to get it done faster. They guaranteed the rate, and we pulled wheels, radiators, and condensers. It's getting ready to crush out again this summer most likely.
Im getting ocd from your scrapyard 😅 nice series for your channel would be junkyard cleanup, making nice rows of cars, crushing and making nice stacks, would watch that all day, a junkyard does not have to be this messy 😅
This is my complaint as well. Maybe the way he has it set-up, makes sense to him, but not to any outsider. It does seem like organized and straight rows, would make things easier to locate and inventory. Additionally, if it was organized a lot more logically, he would be able to put a lot more inventory in the same amount of space.
It’s not that easy. You have to leave room to maneuver that big loader. Also, you want to place the vehicles you will sell at retail in ways that make access fairly easy. You don’t want to have to move 5 other vehicles to get to the one you are selling.
If you crush it all.. youd probanly have more than a few pangs of regret in the next 10 yrs. Some of the $3000 cars i sold in the last 20 yrs that are 8-80k today would be nice to have back. Edit: figure the fuel, tool maint, labor to process too. What u have is much better than cash in a bank.
You work hard for your money. Trick is when you love what you do it ani't work... I'm a signmaker for 43 years and still love it with independence on top.
To be honest I was expecting it to be worth a lot more, with the miscellaneous stuff (engines, frames, noses, etc...) I thought you would edge over a million? ;-) Yep, don't retire, $500K doesn't go too far now a days.
If I ever won the lottery my yard would be just like yours..except everything would be 1986 and down..except for some vehicles up to 93 I still like..I love my classics.
The recycling yard that was across the street from my shop would melt the aluminum and pour ingots. It would have been fun to do some sand casting but too many other things needed doing for $$$
Also, that was a family run biz with 3 generations pitching in. Silas ain’t got no help. In today’s world if he had 2 or 3 boys aged 12 to 20+ they could do their own yt channel with “ will it run” etc vids.
Great video. I really enjoyed it. Doesn't your dad have two other yards you mentioned one time. So, if all those were added up you may have well over a million dollars in junk cars.
I think if more the world knew exactly what you have and how cheap it could be required for (I’m using this channel and a detailed active website or social page) would could find a majority of this stuff new homes to slowly put a lot of this back onto the road!
Hey Silas, you need to tell your dad if he doesn't move all his cars soon, then you'll crush them! Lol!! Did you say that you were living off youtube? That's really great, I hope that one day it could pay for a full time worker as well, to do all the crushing, donkeywork etc!!
Remove The Radiator From Everything Get Paid For That,Rims, Battery,, Starter Motor,ETC, What Ever Extra You Can Get It's A lot OF Work But You Make Extra Money 💰
