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    Junkernaut started this thread.
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    Just to clear some misconceptions up.

    My friends trailer was bought by his parents money not by his "hard earned dollar". It was also my suggestion to by a used trailer and use the extra cash to go towards business expenses and possibly a junk car or two. I believe in turning extra cash into more cash by re investments.

    Second. I am infuriated not that I am doing this to survive but at my friends lack of understanding towards this fact. I enjoy what I do as I strive..no...will die..for independence from having to work for someone else for peanuts or who is just using me to fulfill their goals.



    Got a compressor, hot water heater, and some other misc items today. going to get an early start tomorrow and as well as monday and hit up some more apartment complexes maint units and such. Staying positive is all I have btw so thank you for the comments.

    Have a blessed day all.

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    If you take a bud with you 50% is only OK if you can do twice the amount, but sadly if you base it on 2 guys driving around you will be finding the amount of one person , along with items one person can handle. Now if you hunt and your bud dismantles the dropped off items wile you hunt more,that might work as you will have a back log of items to constantly bring to yard, Your home area yard will look like crap wile all this fun is going on . But if your bud does his job correct you will have buckets of - Short - Tin - SS -AL - Copper - Brass / along with metals with some plastic on it that the yards take as Tin.
    Regardless - what you find you must make the most of it, allot of items you find have pearls in them, so to say , you have to see what is your true ability to get at the guts in side. things that pay from .050 to $3 per pound are what you need to make a days pay , few people will tell you what to take apart but always say to your self how come the yard does not mind taking a item that seems to have little metal well it has a motor with copper.
    Its about the law of averages one can usually find 500 to 600 pounds in suburbia , but that's not sufficient now if you take in 500 pounds of mix along with some AL some Brass Copper you will start to make OK money , Just don't give away your high value metals with the Tin mix's. I so often see that many scrappers are just into the bulk. To me why waste the resources you find
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