Originally Posted by
Dumpster Dee
fiat, what are you doing on olddudes soapbox ??!! lol
Hahaha! I might be up there but he's right on this subject. When I first started scrapping I used to walk right up the demo site and ask for the scrap. I'd get a "yea, sure knock yourself out" and spend days right in the rubble as they'd tear down buildings. No fences, no rolloff boxes. Nothing. I can remember an old 1940s motel being torn down and I was allowed to go in each room with a giant pipe wrench and smash the shower and pull out the copper and a big 10 lb valve from each one. I calculated what I was making and it came out to $137/hr. Who gets to do that nowadays?
I have to wear an orange vest, hard hat, present ID, get scanned for radiation and be photographed just to sell my scrap nowadays. Getting paid involve going through a set of locked and bulletproof doors that makes the space station airlock look simple. At least I can still sell it.
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