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    my newest load

    went down to memphis today and picked these up



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    i bet you get alot of looks bring those back. you got your plasma cutter yet?
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    Sweet a! Nice score man
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    Those ole oldsmobile hub caps on that trailer ?

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    Congrats on a great deal. And to the new guys/gals go read some of Corry's threads so you can pick up a load of fire extinguishers, I did. Mike.
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    "Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}

    Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked

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    yep lots of looks, i picked up a esab 875 at my buddies pawn shop in almost new condition at about half price. i set up two rollers on my tailgate about 3 inches apart set the extinguisher on the rollers and just spin it with one hand while i cut with the other, just like butter. i still use my chop saw for the little aluminum ones

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    I know safety is important but, how many fire extinguishers do you need? hehe.

    Nice find!

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    yep olds hubcaps, i picked that trailer up from a repo guy for 500, had got the cattle guards on a clean up job so i still only got 500 in the trailer plus some blood sweat and tears, got enough of the cattle guards to do it to one more trailer

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    my parents use to have, til we scrapped it this year, a 77 olds delta 88 with the same hubcaps. my brother drove it for a while til the orange death did her in, miss that car it had been in the family since the mid eighties. Ok so I'm rambling and maybe even hijacking, my apologizes

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    i highjack all the time, its okay

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    See I have been looking for load like that where I live

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    they are not too hard to get, start with only one company and deal with your loads slowly until you figure it out, we were overwhelmed when we started. the first loads will be huge and they will taper down to a regular pick up. these were from a smaller company and he said these were about a years worth. anyway he said he would call back when he got his unit full again, one close to my house i get about 200 a month.

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    Hey Cory, what's the car count now?

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    joe ive been dreading someone asking, we was over 140 and lost the list i think we was at 144 thru 112 is on one sheet plus i got the first 103 on here. i have know idea what 113 or any one after that would be in order anyway. im hoping it will turn up inbetween papers, we was talking about it today and trying to remember what we havnt wrote down. i know its stupid of me but we just quit writing them down. we were slow for a couple weeks getting only a couple a week, but its picked up the last few days we got three to get tomorrow, two minvans and a saturn. keeping our 200 minimum is getting harder but we are still doing okay with it. we got a collection in the yard right now selling a few on cl as projects

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