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First Auction Buy (5 replies)
Pics Record load more proof I need a larger truck and/or a trailer .8705 tons (19 replies)
Sometimes they put up a fight. (1 replies)
How To how do i open this (10 replies)
Serious Scrapyard on fire!! (6 replies)
24 hour scrapyard?! (3 replies)
When you think you are not getting much (2 replies)
Question Research Project in Cooperation with CERN (16 replies)
i will not do this again. (4 replies)
what i found in a oven i scrapped (4 replies)
Towns differ (9 replies)
Pics Sweet new claw/mag at junkyard (9 replies)
Low prices...No problem (6 replies)
Don't be this guy. (22 replies)
I Got a $15,000 Check Meant for Someone Else (23 replies)
My Wife is Starting to Get Involved in Scrapping (8 replies)
I helped another scrapper today, or at least I tried to (2 replies)
Now that is a Strong Magnetic Attraction! (14 replies)
Barracuda!!!!! (16 replies)
Pics Accidentally overbooked myself Sunday "i'll be there by...." (8 replies)
Saw a Guy with 300# of Christmas Lights Today (6 replies)
office filing cabinets... (11 replies)
Pics Elliptical.. Heavy? (0 replies)
Poll Anyone else here scrap with RWD in a climate were there is snow? Check in. (12 replies)
Farewell Tacoma (4 replies)
Pics Life in the Dakotas (27 replies)
Down in the Dumps (26 replies)
What do you find the most of in scrap cars? (13 replies)
Scrapping and adapting (18 replies)
Heater core and I need a bigger truck (1 replies)
Question Diesel (9 replies)
Pics Tape drive boards (2 replies)
Robin Hood or Robbing in the Hood (at the yard)? (9 replies)
Question Sealed unit (8 replies)
Copper Now $2.82 per Kitcometals- Was $2.65 on 9/4 (3 replies)
Would any of you guys take down old wind turbines if you had the chance...? (20 replies)
Wives say the darndest things... (3 replies)
Old Computer Scrap (1 replies)
Internship (3 replies)
Pics Just some CU p0rn (11 replies)
Thank You Scarp Metal Forum Members (4 replies)
Curb Co. Finds Today (11 replies)
Shipbreaking (1 replies)
Recent Haul of Tantalum & Mica caps (0 replies)
On the bench! (13 replies)
Rant People that yell at the scrapyard employees (12 replies)
Craigslist Ad- Free Condoms (8 replies)
Great day today, not a bad week (5 replies)
Why I Don't Accept Certain Things (4 replies)
Electrician Comments about Latent Electrical Charges (18 replies)
How Often Do You Find Bare Bright Copper? (5 replies)
Apartment Complexes in College Towns (5 replies)
Scrapping on Way Home from Funeral (1 replies)
520's Scrap Finds (206 replies)
Scrappers from Houston, TX Area (2 replies)
A Friend of Mine Just Bought a New House (0 replies)
Score Picked up a working 2 stage self-propelled snowblower (18 replies)
Pics Price Of Copper Wire Today ... (3 replies)
Tip Sell your copper and Alu now! Or hold it for a while. (16 replies)
Tandy TRS80 Lot (4 replies)
What's your record load in weight - for those that collect "bulk scrap"? (18 replies)
Should you strip it, should you break it down? (8 replies)
No one picks up scrap on CL ? SCORE! (1 replies)
Server From Yesterday. (14 replies)
Strange CL people (9 replies)
Question Scales, calling on scrap yards (13 replies)
How Many Scrappers Have Clean Houses? (27 replies)
Stockpiling Bare Bright Copper (4 replies)
My First Real Scrapping Injury (6 replies)
My wife, the crash test dummy... (8 replies)
The struggle is real (2 replies)
Score Jackpot! Yard sale with a twist. (4 replies)
How do you increase security at pickup locations? (8 replies)
Rant By-By Gold Ended Plugs (1 replies)
Price of scrap down twice in 2 days - trying to stay motivated (55 replies)
Found Money (Coins and Currency) Thread (33 replies)
Anyone use this? (1 replies)
You dont turn it off (8 replies)
Score This weeks load looking pretty decent thanks to dumpster diving (4 replies)
Nice Items Found While Scrapping- Often NOT Metals (17 replies)
Free scrap pickup (14 replies)
Danged barbed wire (5 replies)
Freon Recovery at Scrap Yards. Do they actually recover it? (20 replies)
Scrap yard offers free fuel (14 replies)
must be a special tank to bring your own heavy equipment... (5 replies)
Helpful person at scrapyard (3 replies)
Tools you want (14 replies)
War Stories about Scrapping Injuries & Close Calls (26 replies)
Fixing to start building a scrap trailer...suggestions wanted. (13 replies)
Question Server Score & UPS/APC (11 replies)
The Change (15 replies)
Last of the Mccoys (7 replies)
Deduction for "trash" (8 replies)
Nice little find! (2 replies)
prices i got as of 5/15/18 (2 replies)
metal from the sticks (77 replies)
Chicago burbs: take over my regular pickup spot (3 replies)
Another scorrrrre. (10 replies)
Copper Theft Now Vs. ~10 Years Ago (3 replies)
copper will take a hit (4 replies)
My weekend find for 4-28-2018 Included is pictures (2 replies)
Perks of the Job (37 replies)
Ooops Earth Day.... (1 replies)
40ft copper (4 replies)
How much do swimming pool motors weigh? I have two but have two tocleanl (2 replies)
I'm Back, For My Vegas Scrapping Diary (13 replies)
Score Huge 750kw Generator (2 replies)
Score Huge pile of .30cal brass shell casings and M1 clips (6 replies)
Score Huge Air Cylinder for Oil Filter Crusher / Press Project (2 replies)
Tip Nealry threw this old power switch out (4 replies)
Score Steel score (3 replies)
Tariff's (31 replies)
Best scrap run of 2018 (so far) (6 replies)
Metal Tariffs (7 replies)
good clean out (6 replies)
Pics No (fire extinguishers) (17 replies)
Advice for the 18 year old scrapper (23 replies)
Pics 231 small electric motors (7 replies)
"Trash score" recently leaves me with questions (but happy with the cash) (8 replies)
uh yuck!!! (4 replies)
Anyone Watching the Superbowl? (2 replies)
Pics X-ray equipment (4 replies)
Sometimes.... cooperation must be DEMANDED, not REQUESTED. (11 replies)
Stolen trailer (2 replies)
My yard never really updates there pricing? (4 replies)
Copper Bearing (23 replies)
scrap i took in today 1/23/18 (10 replies)
Wine on the lanai (9 replies)
these trailer house "deals" just keep getting better and better... (5 replies)
Funny Time to scrap my whole life lol (11 replies)
A hobby that pays (9 replies)
Some Recent Hauls (0 replies)
Cleaning burnt copper cable (5 replies)
Consumer Electronics Show 2018 (7 replies)
Score Decent haul the other day (7 replies)
Pics I never remember to take pics so here's a craigslist call (10 replies)
Wesco pallet jack/lift (0 replies)
Question Commercial Printers? (71 replies)
Tip Complacency Kills. (10 replies)
Brrr It's Cold Outside Today (25 replies)
Rag and Bone Man (1 replies)
Question What’s the Difference between trucking at night and daylight? (0 replies)
desktop scrap worth only $5 once parted? (19 replies)
Today's prices in LV (12 replies)
Thank You. (2 replies)
Rant To much competition in my area (10 replies)
180 pounds of sheet iron / shred in 2 mini fridges (2 replies)
Advice needed (21 replies)
Score After about 3 years out of the game... (5 replies)
Tip Just saying (7 replies)
Sending my first large load of scrap via freight! (12 replies)
Batteries (11 replies)
Product Warrantee Issue... (9 replies)
Church Rummage Sale (2 replies)
Urgent Scrapping my parents' homestead (16 replies)
To buy a heavy hauling truck or not to buy (14 replies)
Scrap Recycling Important! (0 replies)
Ah the good times! (2 replies)
Rant good and bad scrap yards (4 replies)
Funny Wire prices (2 replies)
rough trip to the yard (2 replies)
Pics Craigslist for the win again! (11 replies)
Yesterday was a sad day (5 replies)
Researching (12 replies)
Serious Transite Pipe - Yay (5 replies)
Smith's torches... Help! What are these? (3 replies)
Free scrapyard magnet today (12 replies)
Medical equipment value? (4 replies)
Remote Radio head controlers, Aluminum scrap (0 replies)
strarting to break down my PC's (9 replies)
E-Scrap 2017 Conference (25 replies)
One Thing Leads to Another... (9 replies)
First Day Back To Work.... (12 replies)
Hurricane Irma (16 replies)
Stress relief (2 replies)
Pics Super neat find! An old electro-motor arcade game! (5 replies)
Today big aluminum score (3 replies)
One thing I'm known for, breaking things. (10 replies)
Take the good with the bad (sometimes).... (0 replies)
Nice Try A$$holes.... (4 replies)
Question 200ft Long Conveyor. Can this be scrapped? (31 replies)
Copper as wire with casing or stripped getting paid (6 replies)
Police visit on a removal job (18 replies)
Pics Some recent craigslist finds (12 replies)
Ask and ye shall receive (4 replies)
Question Do you just drive around looking for scrap or do you have clients you pick up scrap? (8 replies)
Good scrap Day! (For a small town scrapping newbie) (13 replies)
The Old man and the Sea (6 replies)
took in stuff today todays prices what prices are you guys getting? (5 replies)
Score New one for me (3 replies)
Request for the smallest pickup ever (8 replies)
Question Has anyone ever had this happen to them? (19 replies)
Update (15 replies)
what metal is this? 800 pounds of free weights (7 replies)
Asbestos (8 replies)
20,000lbs of new old stock capacitors, need any offer (8 replies)
Been a while guys. Want your opinion on something. (31 replies)
All time grand totals (6 replies)
Weight/Price Breakdown of a 18' haulmark office trailer (4 replies)
must be good stuff!! (27 replies)
Some of my scrap loads (36 replies)
Cordless tools after 16 years (3 replies)
Score Jackpot (5 replies)
The Thrill of the Hunt (9 replies)
First trip to the yard (10 replies)
Score Another good day on Craigslist (3 replies)
Tell me, why do you scrap? (39 replies)
Hi! My name is Steve...and I'm a scrapper... (2 replies)
Scrap Metal Pickups for the Win. (2 replies)
metal prices (4 replies)
Funny No one can escape his destiny (3 replies)
20% tariff on imports of steel (2 replies)
I got the magnet treatment today (13 replies)
i got my first scrap call (13 replies)
Score The Craigslist gods were good today! (14 replies)
Scrap comms wire (5 replies)
Any scrappers here in the north Ft Worth area (0 replies)
Question Satallite ends circuit boards (14 replies)
Almost Summer (15 replies)
Pretty good week (2 replies)
Question I have hundreds of cubicles to give away (32 replies)
Score Nice find on the way to the mailbox! (8 replies)
Found a 107 year old penny on the ground at the scrapyard (7 replies)
Any Fort Worth Scrappers? (1 replies)
Score Pinch me I'm dreaming (16 replies)
Score First good craigslist free section score! (10 replies)
Gold, keep hunting (4 replies)
Score Sneaky Tantalum Capacitors (3 replies)
Serious Keeping interesting thread on swarf going (4 replies)
New one for me (5 replies)
Nice Find doing a cleanout (2 replies)
Question What Is The Most Beat Up Vehicle You Owned That Still Ran ? (10 replies)
first celaring of an IT "junk room" of a business... (5 replies)
Question Windows 7 COA Sticker (2 replies)
I helps to ask (3 replies)
Pokemonprime's Scrapping Finds (34 replies)
Question 1999 dodge dakota (10 replies)
Are You Lucky? (27 replies)
garage sale (0 replies)
Heat pump (1 replies)
New one for me. (23 replies)
Few Silver Contacts from today (12 replies)
Looking for Escrap buyer in the southern Maryland area (2 replies)
Rainy Day Scrappin (1 replies)
Big Foot Sighting?? (35 replies)
comparing prices (10 replies)
it served me well... (4 replies)
Score Yesterdays picks (8 replies)
The Dive (9 replies)
My best fridge yet (3 replies)