After stacking and staging the motherlode of scrap on the F250 and trailer, I finally got to haul all this stuff off today. Of course, this was without its issues, due to the idea that the truck was having some weird engine management issues. The engine idle would change, which in itself isn't a big deal but when it's because of a malfunctioning sensor, it's a big deal. When this happened, the throttle response was delayed to the point where I'd have to feather the pedal to get the truck to accelerate. This sporadic engine idle/bad throttle response condition would go on and off throughout the time I drove the truck. Previously, I did bump the idle screw on the throttle body up a bit, just because when this condition originally happened, it would cause the engine to stall out during a throttle cycling. Now, whether it's because of the screw adjustment or the malfunctioning sensor finally being registered by the truck's ECU, the check engine light finally popped on. For a little while the light would go on during idle and off during open throttle, but it finally stayed on all the time. I will have to put batteries in my OBD 1 scanner and scan this old POS to see what the light is saying. Anyway, despite the truck's erratic operation, I managed to make it to the scrap yard to get rid of the scrap as well as to the cement plant to get my gravel. Upon returning, I spread the load out over all the muddy areas, managing to actually cover up everything that was left, including the open spot where the old chicken coop/tractor sat.
With the gravel and the chicken yard taken care of, after putting the scrap cans back in their staging place along the garden fence, I turned my attention back to the scrap pile by the southern fence. I moved several tires over to the northwest fence, along with some other miscellaneous car parts. After clearing the car parts storage rack, I pulled out the saw and started hacking that thing up, cutting everything into small manageable pieces for use in the stove or fire pit. Despite having only two batteries for the newer saw, I managed to cut up a bunch of wood before the first battery crapped out. I put that one on charge and for a while took time to move the cut wood and do further cutting in sporadic intervals, giving the battery time to charge. I also took a moment to move a spare Fox body Mustang rear end I had on the lower tier of the rack. I had to use the dolly to move this thing to the new parts staging area, which again took a minute due to the weight of this thing. All that I needed to give the battery time to juice up. I was able to finish cutting with the 2nd battery and when that one crapped out, I pulled the first one back out and cut more wood, killing that battery once again. I fell short by two full cuts through an old landscape timber before the battery died. Needless to say, I have a good stack of firewood built up and the old auto parts rack is no more. Some other auto parts were moved up to the garage to be staged on the shelves up there. Parts like a couple cylinder heads that were outside, along with two more that were in the Storage Trailer were moved. A crankshaft and camshaft were also moved. There are still some parts around the area that need to be relocated to the new area. At the same time in some of these parts are some items that will either be scrapped or otherwise disposed of, things like old hoses that are too dry rotted or other smaller parts that may have no use at this point. Who knows? Point is, with cleanup comes the ability to be able to part with stuff that meets these criteria. At least I come closer to being ready to start dismantling the old southern fence line and getting ready to finish up the fence as a whole using the panels removed from this old fence line.
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