Introduction

Hi all this is my second post. I was given some advice to introduce myself to the forums so here I am. I started in the metal industry coin roll hunting for silver coins and have been doing that for several years as a hobby. I have a nice little collection so far and it is a very exiting hobby. Thats the first metal I got into, then my granfather told me about when he was a kid(11 bothers and sisters and no father) and they lived off the land, hunting all sorts of critters. Well one of the ways he got money as a kid was from phone lines. They would go around to all the phone lines and look on the ground at the base of the pole. The phone man would climb the pole and cut pieces of copper wire and drop them on the ground and my granfather would collect them(that is how they got there first 22 gun). Finally he said now they can hunt deer and eat like kings!! Well that still applies today, I started looking at the base of phone polls and started finding copper wires. I progressavly got into other metals and am starting to understand how to make some extra income at this. It is always going to be just a hobby for me I can do this all the time but it is fun and keeps me in shape.
I hold a full time job but almost always look for additional ways to make money. I figure all extra income streams I can find will go into a retirment fund (considering SS will be gone and pensions are all but gone in this country and my 401K got devistated in 2008-09 cant rely on that at all) so extra income is always on my mind.
Another way I like to make extra $ is Morel mushrooms, I am going to look today actually. For about 1 month of the year these little guys pop up and they are considered a real treat. They go for about $30 a pound and dried about $200 a pound. So far this season I am up to about 22 pounds of these delightful treats. Its a fun hobby and makes me a little $ every year but I also find metal in the woods sometimes. Last week I found 9 car rims in the woods looking for morels. So I droped looking for morels and started hulling out the rims. They were about 1/4 mile in the woods and alittle rusty but good for scraping. I got them out 2 at a time. Well thats enough for now I am burning daylight gotta go. I look forward to more post latter fellas.

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