If you are jealous of other's trailers
- You might be a scrapper if:
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
If you are jealous of other's trailers
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You might be a scrapper if you look in your metal stash for parts before heading to the hardware store.
Neighbors ask if they can look through your metal before heading to the hardware store.
The hardware store calls you when they need a part.
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Patriot, those are SO true!! (#22^^)
Its a thin line between being a nutsy-boltsy handyman farmer and a scrapper who loves machinery!!
It brings up another You might be a scrapper if....
....you separate and keep all the "good farmer stuff" from the scrap before you take the "real" scrap to the yard!!
I've got a terminal case of this!
I'll cut out all straight pieces of iron and mark the size on it with a paint marker before I put it on my racks. Pipe fittings, brass or otherwise, get taken apart and saved. Motors get checked. Electrical parts get stripped down and sorted into cans. I don't keep many bolts and nuts--only if they are in decent shape and larger than about 1/2" diameter. (I'm a sucker for the pretty gold coloured grade 8 bolts. I can get them pretty cheap.) Socket head cap screws are saved. Hydraulics bits are babied. I have an old van filled to the nuts with hydraulics--its so heavy that the springs have long ago given up!
Jon.
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If you are playing cards with your wife, father in-law and mother in law. They each throw in 3 bucks, and you throw in a pound of copper. True story.
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Last edited by pjost; 09-03-2014 at 08:16 PM.
Money is not the root of all evil, the love of money is.
Keeper of the Cooler!
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If every time you finish off a beer/beverage you brag to your friends how it's like getting .50 back is similar to a rebate, because you take it to the yard.
You might be a scrapper if you get excited when you see any kind of gold while scrapping.
You might be a Broncos or Vikings fan if the only chance your team has of winning the gold is if they open a computer tower.
(Sorry bronco fans, I couldn't leave you out.)
I blame PJ.
Sirscrapalot - You might be a scrapper if you scrap other people's steel toes. - (Stolen from..Sledge, an modified..I think it was Sledge...)
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Saw, guilty as charged. Pjost, hope you had a winning hand.
You might be a scrapper if: your retirement investment is physical and cannot be tracked on the computer.
Your kids allowance is based on the amount of scrap they collect from school.
The family vacation is based on metal prices.
Scrap yard prices are more important than the stock market.
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You might be a scrapper if you check out the newest threads on SMF once a day.
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You might be a scrapper if, when the buyers on the forum grace us with their presence and knowledge, you giggle and squeal like a 12 year old girl at a 1D concert........
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
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If you have just loaded more into your vehicle than ever before...and are **** proud of that fact...yoooooooooouuuu might be a scrapper!
If you can tell the weight of (and in) your vehicle by the way it handles on the road...yoooooooouuuuu might be a scrapper!
METAL IS MY MISTRESS...PLEASE DON'T TELL MY WIFE!
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If most of the parts for the custom steering wheel cover came from your scrap pile...Push buttons for the horn are new but the diamond plate and cap screws were scrap and the International Harvester Badge was from an old freezer I scrapped. The truck has a diesel made by International Harvester in it so it seemed appropriate.
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Certified Zip-Tie Mechanic
"Give them enough so they can do something with it, but not too much that they won't do nothing."
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now that.... was some funny $hitOriginally Posted by pawpaw
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana - Bill Gates
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You might be a scrapper if cash is your friend.
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you might be a scrapper if your savings account is in your back yard
Currently looking for a job in or related to scrap/recycling. Relocation is possible for the right offer.
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You might be a scrapper when the pile behind the shop is known as "My Junk Pile" by all others. To me it's valuable "Inventory" worth unknown fortunes!
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You might be a scrapper if you replace your hard drive wiping computer with another one, because the first one had a large socket motherboard.
Sledgehammer Enthusiast
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If you can frequently spot an aluminium can at 40 yards, in the woods, while on the freeway...you might be a scrapper
Last edited by NHscrapman; 09-05-2014 at 08:48 PM.
There ain't nothing wrong with an honest days work. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool.- Old Man
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You might be a scrapper if you've ever taken the tires off a vehicle you're scrapping and swapped them with the old tires you were using.
I've done it before. I bet most of us have.
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When you buy fruit or vegetables if it is buy the pound you don't put a twist tie on the bag, if its priced each you put several twist ties on the bag.
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....if you're reading this thread and laughing but suddenly realize that you yourself have actually done most of these things, you may be a scrapper!
Keeper of the Cooler!
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So much truth in that post SG!
When you go to buy something, you try to figure out the scrap value of it, to determine if you can make any money back once it dies. You just might be a scrapper.
If your walking along an find a penny, an it's not a pre-82 you toss it back down. You just might be a scrapper.
If your car alarm is the big pile of metal in the back...you just might be a scrapper.
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