Bobbypins
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- May 31, 2008
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Being in Okinawa has some advantages and disadvantages. While it's a great work environment and is akin to living in paradise, when it comes to CRH'ing... not so much. My wife went back to the US for a few months on vacation, and I stayed here to take care of the dogs and enjoy having time to myself. Looking back on it... it was pretty damn fabulous!! No nagging. No complaining. Cooking for just one person. Staying up and drinking as much beer as I wanted. AND I got to leave the toilet seat up.
I digress though...
There are numerous military bases here on island. Being a military contractor, I can get to every one of them if I wanted to. Some are big... Some are small. I happen to work on the largest of them all. Kadena.
A few years back, the various shops on base stopped using pennies, and have gone to the "penny rounding". The only place that doesn't do this are all of the post offices. That said, there's stacks of pennies at all of the banks. So while the wife was away, and to fill my time when I was drinking beer, I thought, "Hey... Why not sort pennies?" So the adventure began.
I started off slow and hand sorted the first few boxes. Then I realized what a complete waste of time this was and bought a Ryedale from Andy. The bad thing about culling copper here is that the bank requires that all coins be ROLLED when returned. Sorting with the Ryedale was easy, especially when I worked up to $600/week... but rolling those damn things took a whole day to do just $200. UGH.
But the mission is done. I culled all of the pennies on Kadena, Foster, Kinser, Courtney, and Hansen. I'm not driving way up north to hit Schwab, so I'll let someone else get those. The smaller bases don't have many boxes in their vault, so I just skipped em. It wasn't worth the drive to pick up 2 lousey boxes anyway.
The final tally is 585 LBS of pure, unadulterated copper. The average box was in the 20-30% range, with some being higher. I also managed to pull about $10 worth of wheats.
Since I'm done with my penny sorting for the time being, I sent my Ryedale to my brother (Pipster) since he coin roll hunts as well. I'm sure he'll be posting about his copper percentages down the road.
Without putting everything on a scale, I'm going to say that I now have a TON of copper between what I have here, and what I have at home. Maybe when I finally get back to the States, I can start sorting pennies full time like I want. My goal is to have 10 tons of copper. There's no rhyme or reason to that... I just like the way 10 TONS sounds.
HH everyone.
Nate
I digress though...
There are numerous military bases here on island. Being a military contractor, I can get to every one of them if I wanted to. Some are big... Some are small. I happen to work on the largest of them all. Kadena.
A few years back, the various shops on base stopped using pennies, and have gone to the "penny rounding". The only place that doesn't do this are all of the post offices. That said, there's stacks of pennies at all of the banks. So while the wife was away, and to fill my time when I was drinking beer, I thought, "Hey... Why not sort pennies?" So the adventure began.
I started off slow and hand sorted the first few boxes. Then I realized what a complete waste of time this was and bought a Ryedale from Andy. The bad thing about culling copper here is that the bank requires that all coins be ROLLED when returned. Sorting with the Ryedale was easy, especially when I worked up to $600/week... but rolling those damn things took a whole day to do just $200. UGH.
But the mission is done. I culled all of the pennies on Kadena, Foster, Kinser, Courtney, and Hansen. I'm not driving way up north to hit Schwab, so I'll let someone else get those. The smaller bases don't have many boxes in their vault, so I just skipped em. It wasn't worth the drive to pick up 2 lousey boxes anyway.
The final tally is 585 LBS of pure, unadulterated copper. The average box was in the 20-30% range, with some being higher. I also managed to pull about $10 worth of wheats.
Since I'm done with my penny sorting for the time being, I sent my Ryedale to my brother (Pipster) since he coin roll hunts as well. I'm sure he'll be posting about his copper percentages down the road.
Without putting everything on a scale, I'm going to say that I now have a TON of copper between what I have here, and what I have at home. Maybe when I finally get back to the States, I can start sorting pennies full time like I want. My goal is to have 10 tons of copper. There's no rhyme or reason to that... I just like the way 10 TONS sounds.
HH everyone.
Nate
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