A walk through the local demo contractor's yard

I have installed a few that were all self contained and just plumb into aux lines on boom. Makes it nice for demo contractors that switch attachments a lot. There are no electronic controls or anything and the aux circuit runs a generator built into the top of the magnet.

that sounds slick, and really expensive.

I looked into it a couple of years ago for a client. The mag unit was over $40K in the crate.

The little boy in me (and full grown man I've become) can sit and watch magnetic scrap moving all day. My kid's school is next to a couple scrap yards so I get to peek inside their gates occasionally and get to see it in action. I don't know how long before that job gets boring but I think I'd be tempted to find out. I'm assuming that's not the kind of job they'll offer to some middle-aged dude who has run a backhoe for a bit, in his yard.

If you are able bodied, relatively intelligent, can pass a drug test, and will shop up on time every time, you would probably be surprised who/what they will hire.

^ +1 In my line of work I can tell in a few hours and sometimes minutes if somebody is cut out for it.

What kind of pay we talking? Maybe I should swing in sometime!

Ask

As a friend frequently reminds me: "Them what don't ask, don't get"!

I think a magnet would be extremely useful for separating steel in demo applications and the cost is probably inline or maybe even less than a big shear.

I stopped by the local metal recycler on the hill and dropped off that oil tank from yesterday, and found out the mystery of the 800 komatsu. I had speculated that maybe they parked it there so it would be easy to scrap Nope. They're fitting it with an even bigger shear than the one I put in the post #12 up above. That's the biggest combo I've seen like that. The guys from Modern Machinery are scrambling around on it getting the plumbing right. There's a bunch of them there today, @John C.

Damn that is a big machine.

skyking1 said: I stopped by the local metal recycler on the hill and dropped off that oil tank from yesterday, and found out the mystery of the 800 komatsu. I had speculated that maybe they parked it there so it would be easy to scrap Nope. They're fitting it with an even bigger shear than the one I put in the post #12 up above. That's the biggest combo I've seen like that. The guys from Modern Machinery are scrambling around on it getting the plumbing right. There's a bunch of them there today, @John C. View attachment 284704 View attachment 284705 Click to expand... Who's PC800 is this?

It's at Pearson metal salvage up on Portland Ave.