[TheForge] Post Vise Spring

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Beloved Junkyards
A word of warning...nasty trends
Here on the central left coast, where real estate agents and their 
values seem to dominate city and county councils, the junk yards are 
being driven out of the county and the blacksmiths and welders to the 
outskirts of  town by a process of harassment and enforcing petty 
ordinances and general paper BS. They have made it costly and 
frustrating to be in these businesses. The best local junkyards are long 
gone and those that remain struggle to survive.  There used to be some 
wonderful yards hereabouts.
Even my modest mounds of accumulated materials ( I've long worked 
principally from scrap) exceeded the allowed 200 sq. ft. allowed by 
county ordinances ( applies to farmers too). Even though it was behind a 
fence and  35 miles out of town. I was a declared nuisance for a dozen 
years. My intent was to make it expensive and time consuming for them, 
which was quite successful...had to bail when they looked like it was 
going to get real expensive for me.I now reside 1 mile over the county line.
Watch for the passage of those restrictive ordances , rules and laws in 
your area and try to stop them. They come with the yuppies and the 
imposition of values and lifestyles to which they happen to aspire.
The only benefit i can see is that scrap steel has become a disposal 
problem for folks now and  they are pleased to get rid of it sometimes. 
I'm pleased to help, sometimes...and have gotten picky even...Mostly 
because I'm almost out of flat space at about 35 tons...........Pete F

A. Vida wrote:

>Bruce Freeman wrote:
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>>I doubt it.  Remember, human beings aren't allowed into most NJ
>>junkyards due to liability concerns.  I doubt that's as true in the
>>southwest.  I consider myself quite lucky to live "near" a junkyard I'm
>>free to explore.
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>	I dunno, the guys at Beacon never gave me much guff about
>	milling around in the pile.
>
>	Recall that last year I dredged perhaps 3/4 ton of wrought iron
>	from the waters of Perth Amboy abd Carteret.  Free for the taking.
>	You won't find that in many other places.
>
>	Places such as Arizona show pricing through the roof compared
>	to the east. I went to pick up a beer keg (stainless) for a
>	gar forge shell.  They wanted $50 and they were the cheapest
>	in town.  All their stuff was $$.  There's a guy in the local
>	blacksmith org selling anvils.  Compared to the pricing we
>	find in the east, they were costly.  It's the same for all
>	things mechanical.  The NW USA is the same as far as I have
>	seen to date.  There's a lot more in the east and so the
>	prices are better, overall.
>  
>
>>Nonetheless, metal junk is all around us.  If we look for it, we'll
>>find it.
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>	Agreed, but there's a whole lot more of it in places like NJ
>	than anywhere else in the USA.
>
>	I wonder what it would be like milling about in an old
>	industrial city in Siberia... I mean, besides really cold.
>
>	Anyone ever see a Soviet-made anvil?  I've not.  I wonder
>	what they are like.
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