#scrap-metal — Public Fediverse posts
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Radius scrap metal yard ordered to submit a fire prevention plan — appeals it
"Two months after two massive and preventable scrap metal fires at #RadiusRecycling in 2024 sent plumes of #ToxicFumes and metal particulates over North Portland and Linnton, the North Peninsula Review discovered that the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality sent an enforcement letter to the company alleging that Radius was operating an unpermitted solid waste disposal site and assessing a $29,580 civil penalty. The notice included an order to submit a fire prevention plan by September 30, 2024. "
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And in #PortlandOR ... Large pile fire at #RadiusRecycling sends smoke over North Portland; second fire at site this year
The plume of smoke could be seen from downtown Portland. Portland Fire & Rescue said the fire was in a scrap pile at a recycling facility.
By Anthony Macuk (KGW), Amy-Xiaoshi DePaola
July 17, 2024PORTLAND, Ore. — "A fire at a Radius Recycling metal recycling facility in the St. Johns neighborhood broke out Wednesday afternoon, sending up a plume of black smoke visible from as far away as downtown Portland. There were no injuries reported to first responders or plant personnel, according to Portland Fire & Rescue, and it took about five hours to get the blaze under control.
"The Radius Recycling facility is located in an industrial area along the Willamette River between the Port of Portland's Terminal 4 and Terminal 5. A PF&R news release describes the company as being "affiliated with" #SchnitzerSteel; the company's website says Schnitzer Steel rebranded to Radius Recycling last year.
"Wednesday's incident was the second major fire at the scrapyard this year; a previous debris fire broke out on the evening of May 9, producing a large amount of smoke, although in that case fire crews were able to put it out in about an hour.
"Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R) first tweeted about Wednesday's fire at around 1:30 p.m., describing it as a large fire in a scrap pile at the recycling facility, and said aerial ladder pipes were being set up to start putting it out. PF&R later added that the fire was in at least two piles and a nearby structure was in danger of being caught up in the blaze."
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[Thread] It seems that #RadiusRecycling has a history of fires -- and lack of fire prevention plans!
Crews on scene of fire at #PortlandME recycling center
by Matthew Bourgault,WGME
Tue, May 12, 2026PORTLAND (WGME) -- "The Portland Fire Department says crews are on scene of a fire at Radius Recycling on Riverside Street.
Firefighters say a large pile of scrap metal is on fire."
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What were these weird shallow channels for? I've got several multi-meter lengths of them them laying around.
Some kind of floor drain?
#ScrapMetal #Homestead #Cleanup #Identification #WhatIsThisThing
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Il gigante dei rottami francese Derichebourg acquisisce la tedesca Scholz Recycling Group
https://www.metallirari.com/breakingnews50/
#Riciclo #Metalli #Rottami #EconomiaCircolare #Derichebourg #ScholzRecycling #MergersAndAcquisitions #Industria #Acciaio #MetalliFerrosi #MetalliNonFerrosi #RecyclingIndustry #CircularEconomy #Sostenibilità #GreenIndustry #WasteManagement #MateriePrime #ScrapMetal #IndustriaEuropea #Germania #Francia #BNPParibas #Kallanish #RecuperoMetalli #TransizioneEcologica #MercatoMetalli -
Looking for some wheel bolts. There's several buckets of bolts, nuts, springs, nails, miscellaneous junk and the odd dead mouse.
I've sorted five buckets and found one of the bolts I need so far, but at least the garbarn gets dejunked and my scrapmetal bins fill back up. Keeping the intact nuts and bolts, of course. They fit the old stuff I'm repairing here.
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Also got this thing evaluated. It's a standard farm issue 25'000 liter diesel tank (sadly empty). If full, it would last us about two centuries.
2.86m diameter and 4.22m long with some indestructable coating and no rust on it, just moss.
The scrap value isn't that great, but there's several peeps selling these intact for around €1k.
So what to do with it?
I offered #Schwiemu to cut a door in and make an apartment for her, but that just earned me a frown.
Maybe an AirBnB for people looking for a break from wifi and cell signals?
Flip it on the end and turn it into an XXL pot for bulk boiling billionaires?
Bury it as bunker/rainwater collector/sewage tank/steel root cellar?
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Hauled a trailer full of metal to the scrap dealer, 323 kg Steel and 11 kg Aluminium.
Minus 5% income tax that yielded €100, some cake and more space in the yard 🥳
Edit: Oh, also while I was throwing my junk on a giant pile I got to watch a stripped bare Volvo chassis get smashed flat and stacked on top of that pile of car bones. Exercise, entertainment and you get paid for it!
#Homestead #Cleanup #ScrapMetal #Junkyard #Trailer #Recycling
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My collection of plow shares. Only one looks like it might be a dozer track shoe instead.
Some are bent like they hit a massive rock, others broken, some have stuff welded onto them, they're different models, there's hardly any two that match up :)
The springs are for a spring-tooth harrow, I have the entire harrow as well. No use to me and nobody wants to buy those anymore.
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The scrapmetal pile in front of the sheds is gone. Well, actually it's mostly in the trailer for now.
I did clean up and level the ground there and of course a new scrap pile came out in the process 😆
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Ok, that should be enough. Oh wait *tosses on more stuff* ok now.
Wait, that too *clonk* *clonk*
Oh, and that thing *clang*
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Loading the trailer with some junk for the scrapmetal dealer.
Still gotta cut up the longer parts to fit and I've got another pile out behind the barn.
How much do you think this load weighs so far? :dog_tilting_head:
I'm checking the tyres occasionally to see when its enough 🤷
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Too wet for doing much today so I only messed around with that wheel and tidied around the barn a bit.
Found a bunch of truck panels that were integrated into the animal shack I'm demolishing. It had all kinds of stuff nailed to it, steel, wood, rubber mats, even cardboard.
Broke down the furniture inside for sauna fuel (a hay feeder and some kind of rack soaked with animal piss), then pulled some more disintegrating plastic bags from the ground and threw them into the recycling bin.
Some days not much progress, but every little bit helps.
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Part of an old lawnmower? DIY mars rover kit? Future killbot? #scrapmetal
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Treasures from the scrapmetal sorting.
Some kind of spring-loaded trailer hook?
Two welded steel contraptions, they look like drawbars for something.
A heavy, low brazier stand and an incomplete potato digger (hey, I was going to make one of those!).
And the waste paper basket from room 410.
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Hauling some junk out of the garden, like this billionaire cookpot.
Looks like someone took an old steel water tank, cut the top off, welded the openings shut and added a drain at the bottom with a valve so you always have access to billionaire stock. Or maybe just collected rainwater, who knows. 🤷
#BillionaireCookpot #Homestead #Treasure #Junk #ScrapMetal #Cleanup
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Edit: Solved, it was an electric concrete mixer with wheels. The drum and motor are missing from mine. Picture of the whole unit in the thread.
Scrubbed the type label a bit when hauling this away today. Slightly more readable. Type 50-65, I think? But what was it?
Also looks like the year of manufacture is 1958, not '68. Not much on the internet from that era :)
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Nobody knew what this thing was for, so I cut it up for parts. Then beat the parts I couldn't cut with Mjölnir until the welds broke. 🔨
It can go be something else now. More C-beams and a nice big L for the stock steel stash.
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I knew there were also a few things underneath the shed, but difficult to access or even look.
So today I grabbed a firepoker with long handle and fished out what I could reach.
There was quite a bit more than expected!
Probably should call #AntsPants to pick up the parts for his machine park 😆
The little wheel might be a roller from a DT-75 chain tractor, which I found other parts for. Not sure what the door is from, green is usually JUMZ but it looks like a T-40 door. Nor the propeller!
Pulling on a piece of hydraulic hose that was stuck I thought it would be funny if a whole cylinder came out and voila, it did. Although it's completely rotten.
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You might be wondering how the steel grows so well in our garden.
The answer is obvious: Strong roots 😆
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Have I already mentioned how useful and back-saving my new #PalletFork is? 😸
Yard cleanup goes so much faster now.
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This afternoon I pulled apart the big scrap pile in front of the small sheds.
No great treasure here. Two plows and a furrower for draft animals. A big cattle gate. Two bent drive shafts. The head from a hammer. A couple plow shares and lots of blades, harrow tines and springs. A small pile of stock steel to keep and a big pile of scrap steel to toss into the trailer and cash in.
And some long, weirdly shallow steel channels. Not sure what those were for, cow piss drains?
Oh, and some rusty sheet metal.
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Homemade scrapmetal #Palletfork complete. Seems I got the measurements right, picks up and drops pallets from the ground perfectly. Either length- or sideways.
Very pleased. This will be so useful for hauling stuff around the farm.
Slight limitation in how high I can lift them, but it's sufficient. Might modify it if the need for more height arises, but it's a yard hauler, not a forklift.
Now I just need to get more pallets 😁
#Homestead #DIY #Welding #Metalworking #Tractor #ScrapMetal #SalvagePunk
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You never know what you will spot in a random space next to a garage in Northeast PA.
#robots
#sculpture
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The homemade #PalletFork is starting to look like money. These sell for €300 to €500 if you buy one instead of welding it from scrap steel found around the farm.
Let's see what this cost us (rough numbers):
€11 fittings
€26 paint (only used half though)
€5 power
€12 fluxcore wire
€3 cutting/grinding wheels etc.
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€57Bargain! And it was more fun than buying. And much more satisfying 🤩
This paint dries slowly. One more coat, hopefully tomorrow.
#DIY #Welding #Tractor #MetalWorking #SalvagePunk #ScrapMetal #Homestead #Paint
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Springtime steel harvest. Spring is the best time as the steel grows well over winter but is hard to see once the greener vegetation overtakes it.
#Steel #Harvest #Homestead #Cleanup #Treasure #ScrapMetal #Recycling
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Added some reinforcement pieces at the critical corner. That concludes the welding.
Cleaned up a bit with powered and manual wire brushes, then put on some anti-rust primer (Novakor from Rilak). Painting is where you pay for not using closed profiles 😆
Looking forward to using this thing to tidy up the yard!
#Tractor #PalletFork #Welding #DIY #Metalworking #Homestead #SalvagePunk #ScrapMetal
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#PalletFork progress! 🎇
Made the top pieces for the ears (lift arm connections is the technical term, I think) and made a crossbeam, which took some elaborate measuring but fit pretty good.
Some seam welding later and then a moment of immense satisfaction: It fits! Took it for a spin immediately, of course.
Even better, I thought I might need a shorter top link but it looks like I might just get away with the one I got.
The rust converter has been busy over night and some rust has turned black.
Still need to finish a couple seams and then weld a bunch of extra armour points to the critical fulcrums to increase the load rating. So far I only tested it with my bodyweight
#Tractor #DIY #SalvagePunk #ScrapMetal #Welding #Homestead #Metalworking
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Set up the plasma cutter, which we don't have enough power for and so I can barely use it at half and frazzled a hole into the undrillable steel, then made it round and clean(ish) with the die grinder, which took a good while. Funny, the angle grinder cut the stuff just fine. This is why your legendary items are so expensive - bloody difficult materials to work with!
Top link fitting is on and the ears are aligned and tacked on, the aligning being the hard work here.
Couple more parts to go!
#Tractor #PalletFork #DIY #SalvagePunk #ScrapMetal #Homestead #Metalworking #Welding