Farms tend to accumulate scrap metal over time. A few times a year we load the dump truck with junk and haul it to the scrap yard where they recycle the metal. Today we have less junk (almost none actually) in the old hog lot, and $104 more in our pockets. Easy!
Various scrappage.
- Picked up a load of mulch for Mom and Dad while I was in town.
You are right…something about farmers and keeping ‘parts’ just in case…
Want a job in Hawaii? Certainly we could become millionaires with all the scrap metal here on our farm! You saw, you know. :):):):)
…and, Good Son, picking up compost for Mom and Dad.
Aloha to you all,
Gael and Bobby
Mulch was on my list of chores….
I cleaned up our junk steel & iron one day back in the early 70s and took it to Dumes (We Scrap for a Living) in town. I got at that time about $150 for the first load. But I almost did not get the load there. I was using our 64 Ford F-250 pickup, one we would use to trailer some heavy equipment, but it wasn’t up to filling the bed up with iron. A quarter mile down the road I realized the springs on the back were mashed flat and the front tires were barely on the ground. I found a heavy piece of steel among the junk (it was an old worn dozer track roller) and chained it to the front bumper. That and slowing to 20mph got me to the junkyard. The next two loads were only $90 loads!
Wow. How much did you take to get $150 at that time? I just took 1740lbs for $104.
As I remember it was about three plus tons we had in that pickup and all steel. Most of it was discarded bulldozer parts (worn track rollers, bits, worn blades, etc). My father ran an earthmoving business back in those days. His motto was, “Building better farms.”
Correction: 3000 pounds.
My memory isn’t that good on it. But I do remember feeling disappointed with the money I got for that steel.
Ha!