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Salvaging: Built-up Areas

In built-up areas, they would use an area of a city or town that is open or a building with little walls such as a warehouse or hanger. If they use open areas such as a car park they will mark out where the route for each process. The process runs like the airport version except it is the car or other vehicles move around the people to each part of the process. Unlike it is for the airport version where it is the people who go round each plane with their individual part of the process.   Since they are in a built-up area they are more likely to have accommodations in that built-up area so they will go home at the end of their working day.

Setting up

First, they put temporary barriers up so that the process has a route to go. When a station is needed the barriers are widened to allow the workers greater access to the vehicle and allow for areas for tools to be set out. One central area will be set apart which is where the scraps will be sent for further processing. It is also centralised as to not be in the way of the other processes.

The Central Area

The central area has areas for each metal to be processed and a place to melt those metals down. The Central area from above looks like a spider or crab, with its main area as the body and the walkways from each of the stations, legs.

Processing Vehicles

With vehicles, the first point is to get them into neutral and the handbrake is off so for cars, they can be pushed by hand and for large vehicles, they can be pulled by Shire Horses if necessary.

Safety

Once the car or vehicle is in neutral. The next thing that needs to be drained for safety purposes is petrol or other fuels that are in the vehicle. This is used in other applications, such as power plants and generators. Fuel from unused vehicles has been used up and is no longer used.

The Continuing Process

As the vehicle that at this point has been drained of its fuel and is in neutral now goes along to each station. At each station the vehicle gets disassembled. What is left of the vehicle at the end step is four a rolling platform which is cut up and sorted into metal types and melted down into ingots.

Shutting Down in Built Up Areas

As with the process of setting up the process of shutting down is the same but in reverse. The only difference any metal scraps left over after the last vehicle being processed. Meaning all metal scraps are melted down first before shutting down. Any rubber is kept and reused but will obviously not be used as tires but where the rubber is needed.

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