Just thought I would share the details of my first real scrap job!!

Found a great contract on reddit.com of all places.

My client says he just bought a farm has a washer and stove for me.

awesome



I finish school on friday in the evening, rest up - go to U-haul in the morning hook up a trailer to my crown vic and drive out to the guys place for the washer and stove.

Get there - Its a huge antique type 8 burner stove that weighs 400lbs easy - awesome

Talk to the guy about school and life and business, he says he has all kinds of other stuff I may be interested in and takes me for a tour of the property.

Apparantly the guy who owned it before was an eccentric blacksmith/junkyard type of guy and there's a tonne of **** everywhere. piles of thick steel scrap everywhere, chains that weigh over 100lbs, a pile of brake rotors.

The tour continues

One of the barns was converted into a drywall/insulated "house" that was used as some kind of craft persons studio and had plugs for several separate workstations - My client was now in the process of ripping that out and bringing it back to a barn - hence the giant pile of electrical cables

The other barn was filled nearly to the top with tires, all tires. (90% on rims 20% of the rims being alloy) some tires for dirtbikes some 6 feet wide and for tractors or something.

He asked me if I was interested in a working lawn tractor.

Then behind the barns - the differential pile. Giant rear/front end parts for all sorts of different cars and stuff, all frozen into the ground of course he said ill be able to get them in the summer.

Also full tractors, gates, mobile homes, piles of steel tube, hot water heaters, pumps, and I'm sure a lot of stuff I don't even know about yet

The only deal I've made so far is that I'll take it all.

So I basically hit the motherload - really happy about this - thinking i should specialize in "farm cleanup"

just have to get better at taking tires off rims