Breaking yard etiquette. Discussion debate personal views please

[Tommy1234]

Been thinking after an outing with my buddy Joe.
Me and Joe had a goofous and gallant moment. If you read Highlights For Children magazine as a kid you would understand Goofus and Gallant.
Well my buddy Joe needed a lock cylinder and door handles for his S10 in Jamaica. So we went to a yard in Hammond Indiana to get a lock cylinder from a blazer ( The blazer was the definition of mint O mint.) . Me and Joe were working on the doors. Joe was on the passenger side I was working to drive aside I believe at the time. 2 different approaches.
Me acting like Gallant I was taking up the screws (including the hidden ones I found while tugging the panel) Also putting the panel in the passenger compartment back seat in your compartment back seat when I was done taking it off.
Joe having a Goofus moment ripping the once mint o mint door panel (I believe other parts of the world would call it a door card) apart breaking it in the process ( Kind of understandable when you're at the yard the part would evaporate and you wan to get it quickly as you can)

Well I've been surfing the Web for a while.
Been looking up junkyard stuff out of boredom. And I've been reading articles of junkyard etiquette.
We all know junkyard rules mainly the self service yard.
LIke putting on closed toe shoes. (No slides or flip flops)
No alcoholic beverages
No grinders or oxy torches and other things posted on signs.

Along with the unwritten rules. Like be careful with the parts you remove because someone else might need the part that you removed to gain access.
Help others whenever possible etc etc
Maybe we could put our own goofies and gallant moments on this page. Because I have goofers moments at work to be honest. And I also have some moments being like gallant

 

[evilunclegrimace]

Personally, my opinion is if you are in a yard and start breaking things to get at the part you are after you need to have your fingers broken.

I was at a local yard and watched two jack holes destroy a GMT 400 dash that was in exellent shape just to get a radio head out and then decided to leave it lay out in the weather when they discovered it was not what they were looking for. I let the yard manager know and he threw them out just as soon as he found them.
When you go into someone else's property you are there as a guest, behave like you would expect someone that comes to your place to behave. The folks that run these yards have overhead, things like property taxes, insurance,payroll etc.They have an expected return on their investment even if it is a totalled vehicle. If enough idiots destroy parts needlessly then we will no longer be able to pull our own parts and the prices will increase to match the owners cost to have an employee pull the part.

 

[xXxPARAGONxXx]

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Spot on. When you break parts in a salvage yard, you are essentially stealing from the owners. They can no longer sell those parts to pay their bills. Nobody likes a thief! People who do such things do so because they are inconsiderate and selfish.

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

I definitely agree! Last year I was finally able to get out to the closest yard to me, LKQ southwest. Looking for Burb parts, storage boxes, any 400 goodies. At that time ( February '21) they had an online inventory list, for each of their yards. I saw they had several 400s out there, and it's less than 5 miles from me.
One of the trucks I saw was a Chevy W/T with a box, so 96-97. Mint front clip, looks good overall. White with a barbed wire tape stripe on it, just under the body line.
So I get out there, find that truck,and.... the clip is all beat up, hit on the left side, and the box is cracked! Good lid though, cause it must've been open when the truck was moved to its spot.
Some of the damage on good parts is from the employees, rushing or not being properly hydrated ( throws your spatial cognition off!) or something. Makes it hard to find good sheet metal out there!
And I try not to break any parts to get something, unless the part I need to move is already beyond saving.

 

[454cid]

Yup, don't break stuff unnecessarily.

 

[Tommy1234]

I definitely agree! Last year I was finally able to get out to the closest yard to me, LKQ southwest. Looking for Burb parts, storage boxes, any 400 goodies. At that time ( February '21) they had an online inventory list, for each of their yards. I saw they had several 400s out there, and it's less than 5 miles from me.
One of the trucks I saw was a Chevy W/T with a box, so 96-97. Mint front clip, looks good overall. White with a barbed wire tape stripe on it, just under the body line.
So I get out there, find that truck,and.... the clip is all beat up, hit on the left side, and the box is cracked! Good lid though, cause it must've been open when the truck was moved to its spot.
Some of the damage on good parts is from the employees, rushing or not being properly hydrated ( throws your spatial cognition off!) or something. Makes it hard to find good sheet metal out there!
And I try not to break any parts to get something, unless the part I need to move is already beyond saving.

Agree and Amen to that.
With the yard trips I usually try and clip much wires as I can get for rewiring my truck since it's cheaper and better that way. Better color selection on the wires versus trying to order a spool from Amazon or God knows where and I get all the color coded wires to match the diagrams.

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Agree and Amen to that.
With the yard trips I usually try and clip much wires as I can get for rewiring my truck since it's cheaper and better that way. Better color selection on the wires versus trying to order a spool from Amazon or God knows where and I get all the color coded wires to match the diagrams.

Yep I woulda got the wiring for the 89 headlights, but it was already gone....glad just to get the lights and housings since they are not very common.

 

[Tommy1234]

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[Tommy1234]

Actually new love going to the wrecking yards. My buddy Joe found a few great yards that are self service. And it's weird when I see the wrecking yards they don't look like the classic yards that I always remember from media. Cars stacked on top of each other is like the image I get. But driving past them they look like parking lots unless you look really closely and see hoods up

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

I remember reading that magazine in elementary school, back in the early 70s. Kinda surprised it's still around, but kids still need instruction....