As has been the case for the last few days, the cleanup work at the back yard area has been moving along pretty good. I've been moving car parts from the old racks over to the new staging area along the northwest fence corner and west fence line. Eventually I hope to either sell, use or scrap most of this stuff so I won't have to worry about having to build any kind of shelves or racks to house most of this stuff. Of course, such a goal won't happen overnight, but it won't be for my lack of trying. In the meantime, the next target area that I had to focus on to clear the south fence line is the multi-level wood shelf I moved outside to store the smaller car parts and scrap hoses I accumulated over the last few years. This wood rack wasn't intended to be a permanent fixture as anything made of wood inevitably rots away when outside in the elements. I had to sort through these parts to see what can be scrapped as well as what I might be able to sell, if any. There really wasn't much that I could sell, given that most of the parts were different engine brackets, pulleys, and other small associated parts, many of which were for the current vehicles on our lot. I ended up staging all this stuff with the other parts as I feel I could use all this stuff. The brackets and pulleys can be used on either the engines, or in other projects that may incorporate any kind of power transmission application, such as generators, go karts, or whatever. There were a few small parts I was able to scrap, not much. A lot of the hoses I was able to save but a lot were tossed to the burn pile as they were either showing signs of degradation or small flaws that would manifest themselves later when I tried to press these hoses into service. With the car parts removed from the old shelf, I was able to commence the breaking of the shelf. This was rather easy, all things considered, since the thing was already rotting away. I did use the impact driver to remove a lot of the wood screws that were used to hold this unit together so they can be reused elsewhere. A lot of the screws were either rusty, bent or both and were scrapped if they were successfully removed. I didn't even have to use the saw to break this thing down. I just tipped the whole thing over and it fell apart a good way from the start. Removing the screws just helped me separate the wood even further, allowing me to stack the pieces over by the other pile of cut wood that came from the other parts shelf. I moved everything over to this spot so I could cut the wood and stack it right on the spot versus trying to cut everything up then move the smaller pieces en masse to the staging spot for later use. Once I do cut this wood up further, I'll have a rather large pile of firewood available for use for probably a few days, as we typically go through a fair amount of wood when the temps drop. With the old shelf broken up and the wood moved, the southern fence is even more bare. I moved the bricks that were used to stabilize the shelf and took care of a few more other smaller pieces. There's still some work to be done to clear this area as there's some larger parts that have to be moved, such as the 65 Mustang rear end, the 5spd Toyota transmission from the Toyota Chicken Truck, and some other parts that have to be moved to the new spot. I do still have a lot of regular scrap metal, all of which has to be sorted through. A lot of these scrap metal pieces are large sections of sheet metal cut from old appliances, along with pieces of tubing. A lot of this sheet metal will be used when we start the 46 Ford build, as I'll need to close in parts of the floor on the body. Tubing will be used for when I work on the storage garage later in the future. I may be able to weed out some pieces of metal for scrap but it won't be enough to really make a serious dent. We'll see, in the end the goal is to clear all the crap from this area so once I remove the fencing, the area won't have any of this crap exposed for anyone to see. It'll just be open ground.
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