Retired Scrapper - Sort of.

so they allow scrappers to go into landfill sites and take any scrap they want from there?

Originally Posted by msmoorad

so they allow scrappers to go into landfill sites and take any scrap they want from there?

Usable item / items yes, full loads of scrap no.

Computers and other types of e-waste are fair game, cord cutting, copper and brass if its not going to create a conflict of interest with the custodian of the site your visiting. I no longer save copper but have decided I have a need for red brass for a casting project I have in mind to do in the near future.

I have found some very interesting stuff from the landfills, the WWII flame thrower was perhaps my most lucrative having sold for $3500.00, an early 1900's wooden Hudson Bay Christmas hamper box that went for $500.00. The list is huge.

As you can see I have good reason to be hooked on refuse sites.

Yesterday at our third stop was another lawn boy mower, I checked it over and left it behind because it had a plastic fuel tank only to find on ebay it's old enough to be a collectable, if its there on my next visit will bring it home and put it up on auction.