08-14-2009, 09:19 AM
How high the scrap load in a gon is will be determined by the source of the scrap. Prior to the company I retired from moving out to a new location in City of Industry, it was located in South Central Los Angeles with a tank manufacturer directly behind the shop. The tank manufacturer made pressure tanks only if I remember correctly, propane tanks, air pressure tanks for industrial air compressors, etc. They received loads of various steel shapes and flat stock in gons and always kept a couple of empty gons for the scrap. Because the scrap was odd shapes and sizes, it just did not stack tightly in the gon, so typically the scrap loads would be about even with the top of the gon when the railroad hauled them out. I also seldom saw rust on the scrap loads except during the rainy season. There might have been some rusting on the metal when it got to the destination, but we get 90% of our annual rainfall between November and February. The rest of the year we typically have less than 10% humidity out here so most of the time the scrap loads would not have rusted at all before leaving.