the great spring scrap out.... made 60 bucks!

[GRAY GHOST]

hello all! yesterday i took all of my scrap metals in that i had found in the past year. i have three five gallon buckets in my shop that i throw the different junk i find into. one is for copper, one for brass, and one for aluminum and stainless. i never throw anything away while i'm hunting, except for obvious trash. i rarely find stainless. it took a little while to try to clean it up, but i managed to make almost 60 bucks off of the old scrap! brass faucets,copper wire and gas lines, aluminum plate, brass clock innards, just junk finds of every description. recycling is cool, i've done it for years. that'll keep me in batteries and off! for a good while. do you recycle your junk finds too? thanks, and hh,

 

[echostar61]

Hey Ghost , Good Haul . I do that too, I have 4 buckets , I find a lot of lead sheets near by, must have been from an old roofing job . I dug an old medical symbol made from brass, crude and homemade the wings were about 2 foot span,thought I might keep it,but think I'll recycle it instead. I should have started a bucket for pull tabs only,it would be cool to see just how many I found in a year,Or depressing

Terri

 

[cassiekarimom]

is this the kind of scrap metal you mean? I just started saving mine, it will be a while before I have enough to get anything for it.

 

[GRAY GHOST]

n/t

 

[scubadetector]

Some of the scrap in the lakes is WAY to heavy to bring up. Some is just hillarious!! Finding a section of railway track used for an anchor with a loop welded on, or how about a crankshaft for a car?? Here is one I picked up yesterday. Very heavy anchor!! it was in the muck about a foot! I had to bring it home! Some are just way too heavy to bring up!!

Brings a new meaning to the title : Great "Spring" Scrap Out!!