Beautiful day at the yard

[fiatslug87]

[Pete M]

look at all that blue! 

[ComancheKid45]

Any good parts left on that hot air balloon? 

[MiNi Beast]

I tried getting out in one of those hot air things just this last fall. Booked solid they was three months out even. Going to try again this summer. I WANT to be a bird. 

[strictlyxjs]

Why is it every time i plan a trip to the yard it is either rainy or freezing cold.

 

 

[mjeff87]

My trips to the 'yard usually coincide with a huge rainstorm the day before I go, so the entire place is one giant mud puddle when I get there.  To their credit, the main one I go to just spent pretty much of last summer re-grading, cutting in new drainage ditches, and broadcasting about 8 zillion pounds of #57 stone, so it's "fairly" dry most times.  They have a couple other sister yards around the area that I pretty much don't even bother going to now if it has rained within the last 2-3 days.  You could run a monster mudder course in either of them, and charge admission.

 

 

[schardein]

 

24 minutes ago, mjeff87 said:

My trips to the 'yard usually coincide with a huge rainstorm the day before I go, so the entire place is one giant mud puddle when I get there.  To their credit, the main one I go to just spent pretty much of last summer re-grading, cutting in new drainage ditches, and broadcasting about 8 zillion pounds of #57 stone, so it's "fairly" dry most times.  They have a couple other sister yards around the area that I pretty much don't even bother going to now if it has rained within the last 2-3 days.  You could run a monster mudder course in either of them, and charge admission.

 

 

I used to live in NoVA.  Where do you go?  Do you ever get to the Pick-a-Part in Fredericksburg or Stafford?

[mjeff87]

Nope.  I stay local.  There's a company called Chesterfield Auto Parts down here in the Richmond area, they have three different 'yards.  The closest one to me is about 15 minutes south, near Fort Lee.  That's the one I frequent the most.  They have another one up in Richmond, and then yet another one about 30 minutes north of me.  That one is pretty much all trucks/SUV's.  I don't get there as often as I should.

 

https://chesterfieldauto.com/

 

There's some other, GOB/country style "junkyards" south of me also, in some of the more rural parts.  The kind you need to carry a tetanus booster and a snakebite kit with you when you walk in.