4 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Scrap Yard"

Field recording: claw and electro-magnet machinery loading scrap metal into barge on gowanus canal. Recorded jan 04, 2021 at 12:09pmlowe's parking lot on gowanus canal, facing west across canal towards scrap metal yard (see geotag). Audio-technica at897 shotgun/rifle mic into zoom h6.

A claw crane in a scrap yard at work. The exhaust is knackered!.

The sounds of solway's scrap yard on toronto's ernest avenue. It is an old industrial neighbourhood, rapidly gentrifying. The gentrifiers resent the scrapyard, but it was there first. You can hear the sounds of a mobile crane on caterpillar tracks dumping scrap into semi-trailers which will soon pull out for the steel mills of hamilton. As the trucks are loaded, the drivers chat in the background. Recorded with a roland r05 and a sennheiser mke 400 stereo mike with home-made wind screen on 30 september 2011.

I recorded one usable minute of passing train, moving slowly through town. I thought the local engine served just one customer, a major metal scrap yard, but the half-dozen box cars on this engine don't fit that model. Considering the overall decrepit condition of american railways, this one isn't bad.