Junk yard etiquite?

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Maybe it's just me. Or maybe it's just the "good ol' boy" understanding. I don't know, but I always believed that if you're junk yard shopping you don't pull from a vehicle someone else is working on. Now, say, if someone is working on the axle and you want the radiator, you can ask. Then if the person there before you isn't claiming it and they don't mind, you're gold. But out here in the land of the "genetically tan", seems my rules don't apply. I've been pulling parts and had some guy just walk up and start pulling stuff. Most of the time I'm pulling some engine part and they start pulling interior bits. I don't say anything but I still think it's a bit rude not to at least ask first. But I have actually had one guy just come start pulling a distributor when I was checking out the engine. Had to give him what for on that one.
What the hell are these people thinking?
 
There is not etiquette, junkyards are true Darwinian dystopias, madmax-era rules :stirpot:
 
clutchdust said:
Maybe it's just me. Or maybe it's just the "good ol' boy" understanding. I don't know, but I always believed that if you're junk yard shopping you don't pull from a vehicle someone else is working on. Now, say, if someone is working on the axle and you want the radiator, you can ask. Then if the person there before you isn't claiming it and they don't mind, you're gold. But out here in the land of the "genetically tan", seems my rules don't apply. I've been pulling parts and had some guy just walk up and start pulling stuff. Most of the time I'm pulling some engine part and they start pulling interior bits. I don't say anything but I still think it's a bit rude not to at least ask first. But I have actually had one guy just come start pulling a distributor when I was checking out the engine. Had to give him what for on that one.
What the hell are these people thinking?
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I think we're pretty much on the same wavelength here. :thumbs:
 
69427 said:
clutchdust said:
Maybe it's just me. Or maybe it's just the "good ol' boy" understanding. I don't know, but I always believed that if you're junk yard shopping you don't pull from a vehicle someone else is working on. Now, say, if someone is working on the axle and you want the radiator, you can ask. Then if the person there before you isn't claiming it and they don't mind, you're gold. But out here in the land of the "genetically tan", seems my rules don't apply. I've been pulling parts and had some guy just walk up and start pulling stuff. Most of the time I'm pulling some engine part and they start pulling interior bits. I don't say anything but I still think it's a bit rude not to at least ask first. But I have actually had one guy just come start pulling a distributor when I was checking out the engine. Had to give him what for on that one.
What the hell are these people thinking?
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I think we're pretty much on the same wavelength here. :thumbs:
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And here I used to swap tools with other pickers, no sweat, no losses either....I go to junkyards for specific parts, but I also go on enjoyable days to just get out in the sunshine/breeze/fields, and look at various designs of the possible......I have found it relaxing FUN for many a decade now.....
 
clutchdust said:
Maybe it's just me. Or maybe it's just the "good ol' boy" understanding. I don't know, but I always believed that if you're junk yard shopping you don't pull from a vehicle someone else is working on. Now, say, if someone is working on the axle and you want the radiator, you can ask. Then if the person there before you isn't claiming it and they don't mind, you're gold. But out here in the land of the "genetically tan", seems my rules don't apply. I've been pulling parts and had some guy just walk up and start pulling stuff. Most of the time I'm pulling some engine part and they start pulling interior bits. I don't say anything but I still think it's a bit rude not to at least ask first. But I have actually had one guy just come start pulling a distributor when I was checking out the engine. Had to give him what for on that one.
What the hell are these people thinking?
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you snooze you lose
 
some people just suck.....

I don't spend too much time on junkyards (wish I had more time to spend there) but I'd never get into somebody else's stuff without asking..... wtf ??
 
MYBAD79 said:
some people just suck.....

I don't spend too much time on junkyards (wish I had more time to spend there) but I'd never get into somebody else's stuff without asking..... wtf ??
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Well, yeh, that goes without saying, done that many a time....

:p:drink:
 
Etiquite? Here are some of our fellow humans fighting over shoes in a shopping mall:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH0TBKR-0iI[/ame]
 
at our local u-pullit, there's numerous immigrants, mainly from south of the Texas border, that will pull parts for cheap - I tend to use them. Last time, I needed a 8.8 and didn't have the tools; I asked one of them - $20.00 and 1/2 hour it was in the back of my truck.

etiquette, I let them deal with it :D
 
SuperBuickGuy said:
at our local u-pullit, there's numerous immigrants, mainly from south of the Texas border, that will pull parts for cheap - I tend to use them. Last time, I needed a 8.8 and didn't have the tools; I asked one of them - $20.00 and 1/2 hour it was in the back of my truck.

etiquette, I let them deal with it :D
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Sounds like a win-win deal for both of you. :thumbs:
 
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