Did a clean up/scrap out(picture heavy)=New detector?

[pepperj]

lol... check out this thread by JeffofPA... you otta go magnet fishing like those dudes.

They pulled a ton of scrap. heh

Most Amazing Haul of Stolen SAFES Found Magnet Fishing

www.treasurenet.com

Safes aren't a good thing to scrap.
Full of fire proofing material/cement.
Scrap yards hate them actually.
Crazy video, a real dumping ground.

 

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[pepperj]

Congrats on the clean up! I love my scrap pile too!

I go to the dump a lot. Man you could make an absolute killing if you could pick those piles. Unreal the stuff people toss out.

Thanks
If a person works at it, it pays for those extra little things in life.
Though it's beneath so many people to do things like this.

 

[Bill Farmer]

Been really kind of busy, not having anytime to do the scrap.
So over the past 8 years I have just thrown it in a pile, and all the detecting iron in barrels.
So it came time to start cleaning this pile up.
An assorted collection in behind the small shed, out of sight=out of mind, but it was starting to flow onto the access lane to the sugar bush lane.
This has been a direct result of a house renovation, barn demolition, an auction, iron detecting finds for a decade

I worked at this pile to get some gate material out, and it kind exploded. View attachment 2048515View attachment 2048516
I then it got me thinking it's time to clean it up, so on and off for 2+ weeks, to get it all sorted.

I sold some reusables for $400-Basically a little over what I would of got from the scrap yard to a couple of buddies.
Net result $400.00
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Yesterday I got the 40 yrd bin of steel taken to the scrap yard net result 16,200 lbs of oversize clips category.
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I followed later with the truck and trailer of the mixed load of 3387 lbs net of the non-ferrous aluminum/wire/copper/brass.View attachment 2048526View attachment 2048527View attachment 2048528View attachment 2048522View attachment 2048523View attachment 2048524

So there's still a monel water tank to be processed/tested/sold price can very from $ 2.00-5.00 a pound.
Misc irony alum, bits and pieces that were missed. But most of it was cleaned up and recycled into $$$.
Even the bits and pieces of iron that accumulated for a decade got the toss.
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Over the years folks have done the "What are you going to do with it all"
Basically not really seeing the scrap=$ side of the trade/industry.
Granted it's easier in life to just throw it in garbage, recycling bin at the landfill-carry on.
My thinking is yes a mess, my mess, don't worry about mine & I fret not about yours.
Total was $5654.03
My first post up was on the Random Chat thread.
I stated my goal was to buy a new detector.
My thinking is now I have enough left over for a dinner out with the Mrs.

 

[pepperj]

Update:
Transferred the funds yesterday for the Deus ll. 9" coil, WS6/Bh-01 headphones
$2300.00 Can. all in shipped to the door (currency difference + 13% taxes makes the detectors a tad pricey)

The Mrs saw the transfer paperwork-"Gee they're sure going up in price-Aren't they?
So there's $3700.00 left over in the scrap budget for that dinner out.
(Just have to put things into perspective.)

 

[southfork]

I have a pile also but not as big as yours lol I don't throw much away until its usefulness ends. I just hauled a complete steel VersaTube carport structure 14" x 24' feet home I'll find a place for it. Also 60 sheets of steel roofing 22' feet long I have a use for the roofing.

 

[pepperj]

I have a pile also but not as big as yours lol I don't throw much away until its usefulness ends. I just hauled a complete steel VersaTube carport structure 14" x 24' feet home I'll find a place for it. Also 60 sheets of steel roofing 22' feet long I have a use for the roofing.

I always think can I use it, project, future.
Then reality starts to show, and the clean up starts.

 

[pepperj]

Well thus scrap pile was a thought and a wish it was to have a new toy of a .

Well today it was fulfilled and now it's a reality.

 

[hollARDog]

The future is bright😎😎😎

 

[pepperj]

I have a pile also but not as big as yours lol I don't throw much away until its usefulness ends. I just hauled a complete steel VersaTube carport structure 14" x 24' feet home I'll find a place for it. Also 60 sheets of steel roofing 22' feet long I have a use for the roofing.

A tad late for a reply.
I often will get something for a future project.

They were redoing the town hall just at the end of my street.
Asked the contractor what he was doing with hte roofing sheets-have to take them to the scrap yard. (Grumble)
How about $$$ and I'll drop the car hauler off-he was all
The sheeting works well for covering up lumber/timbers.