Automated Wrecking: New Way To Get Rid Of Your Waste

A wrecking yard - also known as scrapyard or a junkyard depending on the place you are at - is a large ground encompassed by a particular business which breaks down or dismantles various vehicles and machinery. These yards are mostly built a little farther away from civilization - mostly close to the industries which often require the wrecking yard services. 

Who owns a wrecking yard?

A wrecking yard is often owned by an individual or a company who runs solely the wrecking yard. They deal with companies and industries who make machines and vehicles and often require their services. They dismantle the vehicle and either uses it for themselves or give it back to the industry if that is what they were hired for. Wrecking yards in Sydney are often owned by these and they run a service for towing and wrecking vehicles.

In many cases, an industry may also maintain a wrecking yard but it is usually a small scale scrapyard which they have to keep within their boundaries.  

Operations that are done in a wrecking yard.

Wrecking yard is called for service and they make use of that service in quite a few ways to be able to monetise the wreck they have collected, or rather, made:

1. Salvaging

Salvage yards often provide a service to break down the vehicle or machine brought to them and then they find the parts of the machine that are workable. They save those and destroy the rest so as to sell the parts that they have saved. They usually sell useful vehicle parts to the second-hand vehicle shops or repair workshops since they reuse vehicle parts often. 

2. Wrecking

Wrecking is the common activity in these yards They crush and stack everything that isn’t reusable and workable. If they can’t re-sell something, they will label it ‘junk’ and crush it beyond repair, as it already were.

3. Towing

Often vehicles are so far off from repair that they can’t even be taken to the junkyard. In such cases, these wrecking yards are called for service as they use giant trucks which can tow a heavy vehicle with extreme ease. These trucks are used in the wrecking yard to pull and organise the scrap and hence are easy to tow with. 

What is broken down in these yards?

The most commonly disposed things that go into wrecking yards are:

1. Used cars

2. Trucks

3. Satellites

4. Heavy industrial machiners

These wrecking yards also get heavy home appliances to break down such as fridges and air conditioners. But these are usually given to small scale wrecking yards or are just dismantled by local repair shops since they are usually too small to be sent to these yards.

Wrecking yards: help to the planet?

Wrecking yards crush the vehicles and machinery that they acquire and stack those company pieces of, now, garbage to make space for the incoming vehicle. These not only recycle heavy machinery and vehicles, but they also save quite a bit of the industry’s raw energy and materials. It also avoids the wreck to litter the landfills which aren’t the right place to dispose of these in the first place.