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Don't forget the cardboard guy and the pallet guy. I see more of them than anything else.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
mr.nosey also known as a looky-loo
i do my hauling to the scale with an econoline van and always notice how slooooow these peeps walk past when my doors are open
often the looky-loos can be heard saying things like "WHOA !!!! WHERE'D YOU GET ALL THAT FROM" ?
as if i left any LoL
Crt & Ewaste Specialist
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You all forgot the Im looking for my next hit scrapper. I see more of them then any of these others.
Born to think, destine to succeed.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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Pushy Pete the guy at the Auction that pushes everyone out of the way running for the door buster deals.
Thornton Scrapper
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What about the man or women banging on there window screeming absentities at you to get away from there garbage.
Anyways...Once met a super nice lady. She had a few tomato cages next to her garbage can. I waved and said hello so she asked if I wanted a bike. I said sure, Then asked about a second bike. ok sure, Then asked if i want alum sideing. I will take that also i say. Good! she replies. She had me pull the siding off one side of her garadge sence it was falling off and she said she was getting new sideing. Her 10 year old son came up with his arms folded and said, I would sell those bikes if i was you. Smart kid I replied, and said thats what im ganna do.
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Seems like those people always have a Toyota Prius in the driveway...go figure.Originally Posted by greytruck
Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesaler
Certified Zip-Tie Mechanic
"Give them enough so they can do something with it, but not too much that they won't do nothing."
Rural scrapper
I always tell when they ask where I get my scrap from I always smile and tell em I got it from the getting place, ever been there before ?
Alvord iron and salvage
3rd generation scrapper and dam proud of it
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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I'll-sell-it-myself guy, every year his stuff gets rustier.
OR "I won't sell it to you" in line at the yard guy, "$5 for a PC tower? I'll just scrap it if that's all you'll give me!" AKA, can't-do-math guy.
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The "Official" form the State that oversees electronic scrapping in my area that told me that he was talking about the "Certain Reactive Tubes".
I was like, what the hell are you talking about? He said "you scrappers" call them CRT's.
I "HAD TO" listen to him babble on for another 30 minutes or so while chewing on my tongue.
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There may a million better places to live than Iowa, but none of them are home!
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An obvious Brainiac. Please note the O T-shirt.
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John Terrell (248) 224-2188
Burly Guys Junk Removal LLC
5499 Perry Drive Unit P Waterford, MI 48329
http://www.burlyguys.com
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"Certain Reactive Tubes" must be bad for landfills!!!! Is it OK to toss cathode ray tubes in the landfill?????? [just joking] He probably thinks an LED is made from Lead!
Chris
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LED - Lead Excited Display
People may laugh at me, but that's ok. I laugh all the way to the bank.
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Love the cant do math guy....offered a guy $5 for a tower in the shred section and he said " i can get ALMOST that much here "
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” John Wayne-- The Shootist
NEWBS READ THIS THREAD ABOUT REFINING!!!!
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/off-t...ning-read.html
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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AhhhhHaaaHaaa. Oh Benny, that is a good one! Just blew a shot of ginger ale through my nose.Just kid'n.
Yolk poach'n bast'ds. lol lb
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The 3 dudes in a truck crews. How the hell can you make any $ like that?
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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You forgot about:
The Parasites
These guys are the ones who constantly ask you "Is that trash?" when you are minding your own business doing a weekend project around the house or you might be helping a friend or neighbor with one of their projects.
Or you might run into someone like this when you are taking your large metal item to get it fixed, or you just bought it or sold it and they see you putting it in the back of your truck.
NO!!!! This is my barbeque grill! It's NOT trash! NOO! This is the stand for my fish tanks! Stop asking me!
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I love the people who have to tell you how they wish they had known you recycled computers because they just got rid of twenty of them!
Worse are the people I call the scrap teases. They tell you they have twenty "really old" computers in a barn or storage unit that they'll sell you - they just have to find the time to go and get them. The next time you see them - it's the same story - yes, they really have them - they just have to go get them. After about six months of hearing this- every time you run into them-you realize that they don't have any computers anywhere they just like messing with you for their own strange entertainment.
Since this has happened to me with at least three different individuals I've started to wonder if I don't have a sign on my back that says " kick me or- if you really want to abuse me - promise me junk electronics you don't really have."
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm...... Churchill
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Back in the day, it was an old man bout 80,everyone called him Bottle Morgan. He started riding his bike for exercise, decided to pick up bottles along the way, kept it up for years, Had him in the local paper, cant remember how many thousand bottles he had turned in.
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Yeah, the know-it-alls always gets me. One time I was unloading at the scrap yard and the guy next to me had about 4# of low grade circuit boards so I asked him if he was throwing them away. He said why do you want them? I said I'll give you a buck for them (witch would have been to much) he said no way, these are worth at least 10.00. Before I could get out of there he was asking me where do I sell by boards? I said first I want to know where you can get 10.00 for those low grade boards. He gets in his truck and leaves.
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