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    Your backyard.

    I know there are some people who use there backyard for your scrap piles. I'll come home sometimes with something small and just toss it over the fence. If I hear a loud bang noise. I know I got it in the pile. Or close enough. I do not get to scrap as much as id like to. So it takes me a while to get my pile up. I still have to break all of this stuff down. But the way I see it. It is money I cannot spend. Sorta like a rainy day fund. Well here is a picture of mine. What does yours look like?



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    I have such a mess . The camera will bust from the disgust .

    HELP !!!!!

    I got the look just use your imagination

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    I have lots of tarps. out of sight, out of mind. or is that...out OF my mind. yea yea dats it.

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    Here's mine. I'm having to park in the yard for now. I'm hoping to get this or most of it processed this weekend.

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    This is a scene today that I would like to call "WHERE THE !@$%#@ @#$@# %$#@#$ IS MY !@$@#$ @#$%^^% @#$@ @#$@# FAVORITE DRILL?!?!"

    This area was so nice and organized and cleared this morning There was actually a trailer parked there.

    My soon-to-be wife is very appreciative that I have moved out of our backyard and garage (mostly). It looked worse than this almost every day when I was working at home.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BroJer View Post
    I have lots of tarps. out of sight, out of mind. or is that...out OF my mind. yea yea dats it.
    Tarps are sorta good till the kids start saying - How come
    we are the only people in town with Blue tarps , Yup those Blue tarps you can see for 5 miles . Yeah they blend !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Copper Head View Post
    Tarps are sorta good till the kids start saying - How come
    we are the only people in town with Blue tarps , Yup those Blue tarps you can see for 5 miles . Yeah they blend !
    ummm they do make dark green ones. they actually blend in pretty well with all the bushes.

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    Those pictures are beautiful. I particularly enjoyed the one with the beige (beige=old, dontchya know) desktops in the driveway. Time for a cold shower.

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    It may not look neat, but its a money pile. Yea, i'd get some tarps to cover them up with. Harbor freight has a free no purchase necessary coupon for some blue tarps, i have about 30 new tarps already! Coupon Display

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    I hide mine, in the shed, under the carport, garage.

    Found a nice big brown tarp new in the package while out picking too. Pretty stealth looking.

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    I guess I take the find it all to the bitter end .
    I find tarps and they tend to be blue. Any way I have tires on them and all sorts of things as a deterrent to make it hard to get under the tarps to help stop theft .



    I need intervention , close to what you see on TV , but it's MONEY,
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    Ryan...I'm digging the totes!

    I use my carport(one side, other is for the van), my downstairs shop, an soon warehouse space once I find some I like.

    Oh I also use my back deck, but I hate carrying things upstairs just to drag them back down. An everything is upstairs cept the shop an carport! I live on stilts dontchaknow.

    My backyard is for the dogs to run an act like fools, I'd never forgive myself I left something there for them to step on or eat.

    Sirscrapalot - You got trees in your backyard, I got ocean an sand.

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    Sirscrapalot - Oh yeah! I love these things. Some warehouse downtown was trying to get rid of a bunch for cheap, so I got around 20-25 for $20 each! If you ever see any around, get them.

    The best part, they're on wheels! I put non ferrous, and boards in them. Then, when I'm ready to go to the yard, shoot them up a ramp into my trailer. I had 600lbs of transformers in one once. The wheels made it...barely.

    I don't know what I would do if I had stairs...everything would stay outside I guess.

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    This was just a small part of the yard beside my scrapping garage, one pickup load.

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    I wouldnt mind cover for me. Like with the tarps. But i have the fence and garage which I guess hides the stuff well enough. People are gonna see me pulling up with it. Or see me loading a load up. So I am not worried about all that. I know of 2 other people around here who scrap. By around here. I mean within a half a block of me. I have seen evidence of it. I need to ask what they do with computers.


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