110 miles and 5 hours of my time for a Refrigerator

A guy calls me up and says he has a giant refrigerator he wants me to haul away. Its not too far out of the way if you go that way, but still 30 miles round trip.
I get there and he says he can load me up with his forklift, okay that works for me. I try to slide the fridge off the forks and onto my pickup, wow this fridge is heavy, must be 800 lbs. I get it home and I cant lift it cant slide it, need 2 guys to help me dump it in the driveway.



Turns out this fridge is some special scientific humidity cabinet, its 100% 304 stainless, every screw, every rivet, everything, and its got to weigh at least 800 lbs. I call the yard I deal with and he tells me Refrigerators are same price as light iron. I tell him its all 304 stainless, he doesn't care, refrigerators are light iron. Okay, so I have to cut it up. Easier said than done, I go through 10 4" discs and maybe I have 3 pieces 24"x36" cut up. So it sits there in the driveway for 3 months, 304 was $0.45 back in July now its dropped to $0.33 I have to do something with it.




I ordered up 6 special 12" discs, $64, for my cutoff saw and start cutting this thing up. The 12 saw worked pretty good, 2 hours and 4 discs and the fridge is no more. Loaded it all up ready to go on Saturday morning.


I called my local yard this morning and he tells me $0.30, what happened to $0.33, he says you gota bring it down and we shoot it with the gun and maybe we can do better. Hell with that, I'm going to Rockaway for $0.33. Never been there, its pretty far, 80 miles round trip, but its a cool yard. You load you stuff into dumpsters and they weigh it up on a computerized scale that spits out a receipt, you take your receipt to the cash machine and it scans your ticket and spits out cash. $174 for 527 lbs minus the $64 for the 12" discs, minus $22 in gas, net $88 for 5 hours of my time and maybe a couple years off my life for breathing in that stainless and K O wool stuff I cut up with the saw.


I dont know why I do it. I dont need to do it. I'm addicted to scrappin.

Because its an adventure and you can tell stories about it in your old age (hopefully not cut short from your breathing in the ss dust...)

Or, ever try taking a bone from a dog after they're into it for a while???