What do you do besides scrap metal? - Page 10

Im a welder by trade love ironwork (erecting buildings). IM 22 . I have been scrapping as long as I remember to make some extra cash. Helps with gas and bills so I can put some cash a way.

Oilfield and potash mining is all the options round here for uneducated guys like me. Only the lucky guys get on at the mines. I'm not lucky so I work oil wells. When that gets old I quit and survive on side jobs. I'm a jack of all trades.

Mining, an oil well work ain't no walk in the grass!

Sirscrapalot - Cooler is open for business.

Yea we don't have much grass here anyways. Lots of sand. And ooh pretty mesquite bushes. Some yucca and other assorted cacti. Got grass in some front yards but most people just dump colorful rocks everywhere and call it a garden lol

You make me miss Arizona.

An walk in the park woulda been better..lol.

Either way, that ain't no lazy man work.

Sirscrapalot - rwar!

I don't even know how to spell lazy

I worked in a factory then got my cdl. I then moved house and trailers through out Canada and the Midwest. I loved the driving but hated being gone and dealing with the d-bags that bought them, plus the d-bag I worked for. Then I drove dump truck for a while in the twin citys metro area. Most stressful job I ever had.

Now I'm the relief driver for a local Coke company. Pays alright for what I do but the hours are usally long.

Semi retired, Social Security Sucking farmer here. Wife and I play in a Variety/Country Dance Band about every weekend. She complained about me being on the computer too much so I started scrapping mainly large and small farm items/machinery etc. Now she complains that I'm scrapping too much. Funny...them wives

I own a trucking company.

Healthcare Clerk and rug-rat wrangler now. Scrapping to be active.

Former bear viewing tour-guide, bartender, restaurant manager, restaurant auditor, vessel deckhand, hotel manager, A/P & payroll clerk, florist, data-entry, bush-plane ramp-dawg, property caretaker. Not in any sort of order.

I'm going to school to become a diesel technician. The program I'm in has a primary focus on heavy equipment (agricultural, mining, construction, paving, logging) but we have been learning some things on trucks as well since most equipment is hauled on trucks. I just finished my electrical class and I got another year and a half to go before I graduate. Before that I used to work in a restaurant/bakery. I got into scrapping last summer when I lived in a small town that was quite a ways away from the scrap yard. The nearest waste transfer station would charge people for weight and disposal fees to dump appliances there. You could find junk appliances in every alley way in town.

Yoel...unless your really trying, nobody here will call you out on grammar, spelling, etc. We're scrappers and not the spelling police. We may yank your chain about it now an then, but for the most part, we're pretty good about such things.

An nice set of experiences for someone who's in their early 20's! ( assuming thats what those numbers mean.. ). We got a couple folks your age, an even younger here.

Sirscrapalot - When the spelling police get upset I just say "There, their, thier, it'll be ok." - Stolen proudly from some one on the internet

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im a qualified plumber.

but here in South Africa, we dont use gas, so i dont have much knowledge or experience with gas lines
unlike plumbers in the US, UK, Canada etc

but im VERY choosy about which plumbing jobs i take on
i look for the easy ones
and i pass the pain in the butt jobs on to other plumbers

but when it comes to scrapping, i dont pass up on anything

i just need a place of my own- just somewhere secure & not very hot during our boiling summers where i can work & NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WOMEN NAGGING.

(sorry-had to vent a bit)

I am a commercial loan underwriter / broker and also do residential mortgages. Scrapping is exercise and primarily a hobby for me, though thinking of upping my game in 2015. I love it.