[AT] Melting it all down.

[Terry Welch]

My son recently rebuilt a 20 speed Mack transmission for a friend of mine while in Tech School. He brought the trans home, but it was going to be a couple of days before we could get it back to my friend. He left it in his truck and some thieves tried to steal it from the back of his truck at the local Farm and Fleet. He took it to a buddies place to store it. He was to take it back to my buddy's place on Monday. So my sons friend pulled it out of the building and put in the back of a pickup they had. Before the next morning some thieves struck and did not get the trans but stole the  aluminum covers off of it, tried to get the trans and did get three out of four rear axles for 3/4 ton Chev pickups. While the shop is in the country,the owners home is right next to it and the owner was home. I just hope the scum bag has one hell of a hernia. 



----- Original Message ----
From: Indiana Robinson <robinson at svs.net>
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:40:28 PM
Subject: [AT] Melting it all down.

    I happened to be down past the local salvage yard today looking at 
(wishing for) a couple of old tractors and I was absolutely amazed by 
the traffic. This is an old place and has always done well with junk 
cars but it isn't usually "busy". Today there was a couple of trucks 
unloading scrap, one on the scales and 3 more waiting in line out on the 
street... As I left another truck load turned down the street going that 
direction.
    I couldn't help but wonder if there were some serious treasures buried 
in those loads, perhaps already cut up and destroyed forever...
    I think about half of the unemployed guys and half just looking for a 
way to make another buck to buy gas has gone into the scrapping 
business. The biggest problem is that a lot of that stuff is stolen. 
Thieves hit a local auto dealer last week and took a flock of batteries 
including from one personal vehicle.
    Last week one of my daughters took in a stray and injured kitten and 
she took it to a vet southwest of here that has a heart and cares for a 
lot of such creatures for almost nothing. She met her husband in a small 
down on the way and they left his truck parked in that town in front of 
a business. This was during business hours. When they got back (still 
business hours) to the truck and he started it up it was quite loud... 
Yep, catalytic converter was gone... They took a whole string of those 
from dealer lots a few months back here too.
    They are starting to crack down on salvage yards more now. Not long ago 
Indianapolis lost a whole herd of manhole covers...
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    Just don't leave your toys out where they can grow legs or lose parts.


-- 


"farmer"


I wouldn't mind being absent minded so bad if forgetfulness
could just be a little more selective. Just last week I
was saying so to "whats-her-name..."



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Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net
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