[TheForge] scrap happy

[Paul Hewitt]

The irony of the whole scrap yard convo right now is very amusing.  I =
spent most of the day loading about 250 cubic yards of scrap metal =
everything into 50 yard dumpsters for the local recycling station.  The =
really love my clamshell front jaws on my JCB 210S extendahoe.  The =
brits really have built a nice machine, I flogged it for eight straight =
hours loading junk, and marveling at how much of it would be usefull to =
someone.   200 lawnmowers, mos tof whcih had running motors, but the =
decks were rusted out or handles were broken.   Tanks, all shapes sizes =
and varieties.  13 ASO's, disappointed there wasn't a single jewel in =
the rough in the whole bunch.  Pipe, eletric motors, wheelchairs with =
motors, gears, sprockets, (anyone need a golf green roller)...

Owning several casting furnaces, I have a keen eye, for aluminum, copper =
and brass.   By the end of the day we had salvaged over 7000 pounds of =
copper, brass and aluminum they gave us for free.  To boot, they got =
charged 65.00 an hour for the two ground grunts, I had spotting and =
loading the bucket.  I paid one of my other grunts to simply pull the =
non ferrous scrap and load it in our dump trailer.   I think this load =
will go to the recycler,  at an average of .65 a pound that should make =
the days wages form my scrap puller you think?....

Among our treasures is my eye for magnesium, lets just say the after =
hours fun was much better than the whole days work, as we lit lawn mower =
castings on fire, and threw them over the side of the local jetty to =
watch the white smoke bubble from the ocean, and the bright blinding =
light burn under water and light up hundreds of feet of water =
surrounding it.

Just don;'t tell the DEQ.........

Enjoy your scrap scrounging and don't forget one womans trash is mostly =
likely any mans treasure.

Paul Hewitt

H&H Custom Solutions/
Precision Vinyl Concepts
P.O. Box 1486
Port Orford Or. 97465

http://www.h-hcustomsolutions.com