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    Talking sTART MONSTER TOMMOROW

    Start cutting down 48 ft aluminum/steel trailer in morning



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    Nice!

    Pictures if you can please. Before and after.

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    I'll see what I can do.....I'll take the old digital camera.....I wish I would have documented all the things I have demolished.....The most memorable was a solid steel houseboat which was dry docked in this guys front yard.....You have to remember I'm in Tennessee.....we don't wear shoes down here but we got plenty of scrap

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    I'm actually farther along but these are the pics I got

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    man that looks like fun.

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    it is fun I almost finished in one day....Time is money in this game

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    Time is money but getting paid to tear stuff apart and having fun doing it is just awesome.

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    not to say it still isnt fun but when you do this everyday it starts to wear on you

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    Try walking 10 miles a day carring 20 pounds of mail. Now that wears on you and is as boring as hell
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    I wanna seem a mail man on a goped then. PTS just think about it get ur route done in less time and hook a small trailer to it and collect scrap hahha.

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    LOL i pick up small pieces all the time and stick them in my lunch box. I bet I pick up a 2 or 3 cans a day and I got a nice piece of copper pipe the other day too As far as a goped goes can those things climb stairs up to the houses?

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    the off road ones are pretty nice. Hows ur balance? lol jk

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    Just getting up this morning and feeling pretty rough and it's raining outside of course....I don't have any big equipment so I'm tearing this apart by hand....LOL
    Oh well time to go to work

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    Hope ya using a gas power chopsaw. My buddy had one. Took him 10 hours to do it. 48ft alu trailer acme. Bastard was aluminum including the i beams...sweet! wATCHED HIM COLLECT 5 GRAN + AND PASS GO......

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    I tried a gas powered chop saw on big stuff like this and almost went broke keeping blades on the thing...LOL...Anyways I can't tell you all my secrets but this is about a day and a half work and that includes loading it and running back and forth to the junkyard

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    Finished!!!!!!

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    Congrats, so how was the payday. Are you happy with the return for the effort? Mike.
    "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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