Slick 60's

Hauled a small load of iron into the scrapyard today
Mostly just old cut off pieces of metal
A few pieces of copper & aluminum & brass
Just cleaning up the shop & buildings
The big stuff will go in later ....
Had it in the F350 (tonner)
1700#
I figured that should be enough to make it ride a little softer
Nope ... I don't think that made it go down an inch
But at least I got enough $ to fill up the gas tank & take the wife to Wendy's

That's a triple win, you get things cleaned up a little more, a tank of gas and you got to take Colleen out for a meal. Hey, it doesn't get much more romantic than a nice meal at Wendy's, but you have to go inside to eat, you lose the romantic part if you drive through.

Pat when we bring in some iron, Truck gets fuel, Kathy gets a share of the $$$ since she is helping in loading, I get a little of what's left in which is not much anymore

When I went in to get my money
Car pulling a trailer of stuff
Very nice looking cub cadet riding mower.......
When I say "nice looking"
I mean , if you would wax it up.. it would pass for used one season
All tires were up & looked good
I told the guy " I would have killed for that when I was a kid"
He said " it don't start & im tired of fooling with it"
Him & i are on opposite ends of the spectrum ...
Getting a "dead" machine running , is just a challenge

I am with you Pat, My cub cadet seems to have a two or three issues a season.
I am cutting about two acres of natural meadow that grows a new crop of rocks every year, right now the charging system is only extending the battery charge I have to give it about every three mows.
It is just one of the joys of keeping and maintaining equipment and trucks.

I had a mower that wouldn't keep battery charged
I made a box on the side that held a car battery
Usally could get by with 3 recharges a season

Bet Colleen enjoyed dinner.. I do a lot of scrapping myself, that is how I pay for most of my truck parts..

It just piles up
Then I get into cleaning mood
Copper.. brass... radiators
"Prepared" (less than 36")
And bulk (full sized chebby parts)
Its not easy work ... makes a guy respect people that do this day in & day out

Pat here is what is left of a 78 long bed when we finish with stripping a truck, they call it shred metal,, Was able to buy Cooper a Bag of Food, Kathy went and got some groceries to take to Carlisle next week and that's it

When I was cleaning up my shop in Michigan before I moved I had a scrapper come out and clean up all the metal. He paid me more than I could get at the scrap metal place & I didn't have to touch it. He brought a mini excavator with a thumb on it. Worked great loading the metal scrap bins. I came out with a couple grand when he was all done. He was happy & so was I.

About 15 years ago I sold a bunch of stuff to a scrapper
Price was high & he gave me a good bid
I took the money
Then the price dropped quick
If he broke even it would surprise me ...
Ive hauled about $250 in ...
Probably about 1/2 of it so far
But the buildings around here are looking good !!!
(I can actually park vehicles in them )

Hey Tom, see if you can haul a little bit more next time, hopefully you can get enough to patch the tube on my wagon tire!

Got two 5 gallon buckets full of insulated copper wire
3 car batteries
And probaly half a ton of "prepared" metal in the f350
Some aluminum & some brass water meters ....
probably in the $60-$80 range is my guess....
The trash dumpster is full ! But the truck comes Tuesday
......

Pat here is a pretty much of full load of Iron, this old 67 was rotted out real bad, cut up a camper top so the junk would no go through the bed floor, we save a lot of parts since it was a 67 and lot is one year only,, talk about over hang and have heavy at the rear

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Dang near pop-a-wheelie with that load !

Pat the place we go to has a axle scale, front axle was 4250lbs and then the rear was 15,150 so yes it was a little light on front end , at least it's on 20 miles from here