A Pound of Metal per Mile 2024

[Recyclersteve]

Tom, I’m curious how you are doing this.

Are you walking with a pull cart of some kind, driving a golf cart, or doing it some other way?

Have you considered making a YouTube video?

[CrazyTom]

Recyclersteve, I take grocery store plastic bags on my bike rides. The cans and scraps go in the bag, hung from the handle bar.

The golf balls go in my pockets. I usually just get out on early weekend mornings, work allowing.

I have watched You Tubes on guys who dive in golf course ponds to retrieve balls. I don't think there would
be much call of a guy scrounging them from outside the fence (and occasionally through the fence).

[CrazyTom]

6 oz cans
3 oz tire weights
14 oz steel

1 quarter
4 dimes
1 nickel
8 pennies

61 golf balls



2024 totals

12 lb 0 oz cans
15 lb 7 oz steel
1 lb copper/brass
1 lb 9 oz tire weights

$28.37 cash

574 golf balls

[TXSTARFIRE]

61 golf balls? You must have big pockets!

[CrazyTom]

Averaging about 10 per ride.

[CrazyTom]

More tools for the tool box, a 1/2" drive short socket extension and a wire cutter.

1 lb 6 oz steel
1 oz tire weight
9 oz cans

2 quarters
12 dimes
1 nickel
18 pennies

75 golf balls


2024 totals

12 lb 9 oz cans
16 lb 13 oz steel
1 lb copper/brass
1 lb 10 oz tire weights

$30.30 cash

649 golf balls

[CrazyTom]

Got another tool but it was one of those silly little wrenches you get in an Ikea box used to assemble their TinkerToy furniture.

8 oz cans
4 oz steel

6 quarters
7 dimes
3 nickels
24 pennies

73 golf balls


2024 totals

13 lb 1 oz cans
17 lb 1 oz steel
1 lb copper/brass
1 lb 10 oz tire weights

$32.89 cash

722 golf balls

[Lemon Thrower]

what do you do with all the golf balls.

How is it that you find so many?

[shinnosuke]

what do you do with all the golf balls.

How is it that you find so many?

Tom lives near a driving range or a golf course with a driving range. Some balls escape and Tom knows where to find them. He sells his harvest, if I'm not mistaken.

[CrazyTom]

what do you do with all the golf balls.

How is it that you find so many?

Tom lives near a driving range or a golf course with a driving range. Some balls escape and Tom knows where to find them. He sells his harvest, if I'm not mistaken.

You are correct sir. Actually near two courses. And my daughter got me a ball snagger on a telescoping rod. For those hard to reach ones.

[CrazyTom]

Looks like the dreaded down time for a winter lawn seeding has come at the golf course. However, a retirement village down the road
isn't as picky about the course ambience and I can still get a smattering.

12 oz cans
15 oz steel

1 quarter
3 dimes
1 nickel
17 pennies

50 golf balls



2024 totals

13 lb 13 oz cans
18 lb steel
1 lb copper/brass
1 lb 10 oz tire weights

$33.66 cash

772 golf balls

[CrazyTom]

The grass is green, the golfers are back, and so am I.

1 lb cans

3 quarters
5 dimes
1 nickel
19 pennies

20 golf balls



2024 totals

14 lb 13 oz cans
18 lb steel
1 lb copper/brass
1 lb 10 oz tire weights

$35.15 cash

792 golf balls

[CrazyTom]

Got a 30' Milwaukee tape measure, but it was suffering a bad case of road rash.

1 lb 3 oz cans

1 quarter
4 dimes
2 nickels
18 pennies

46 golf balls



2024 totals

16 lb cans
18 lb steel
1 lb copper/brass
1 lb 10 oz tire weights

$36.08 cash

838 golf balls

[CrazyTom]

Took in a batch of white golf balls and got a check for $45.10. I just can't part with the "Easter eggs" yet.

5 oz cans
2 lb 5 oz steel
1 oz tire weight

5 quarters
13 dimes
5 nickels
12 pennies

35 golf balls



2024 totals

16 lb 5 oz cans
20 lb 9 oz steel
1 lb copper/brass
1 lb 11 oz tire weights

$39.00 cash

873 golf balls

[Dr. Cadmium]

Took in a batch of white golf balls and got a check for $45.10. I just can't part with the "Easter eggs" yet.

That's a nice check! And I thought scrap was where the money was.

[CrazyTom]

Took in a batch of white golf balls and got a check for $45.10. I just can't part with the "Easter eggs" yet.

That's a nice check! And I thought scrap was where the money was.

Thanks good doctor. I doubt I'll get to 1000 golf balls this year. But there's always 2025!

[CrazyTom]

Got a $1.00 FRN at a McDonald's drive thru.

10 oz cans

$1.00 bill
1 quarter
7 dimes
4 nickels
17 pennies

22 golf balls




2024 totals

16 lb 15 oz cans
20 lb 9 oz steel
1 lb copper/brass
1 lb 11 oz tire weights

$41.32 cash

895 golf balls

[CrazyTom]

Last report of 2024!

7 oz cans
13 oz steel

$1 FRN
4 quarters
5 dimes
2 nickels
14 pennies

34 golf balls


2024 totals

17 lb 6 oz cans
21 lb 6 oz steel
1 lb copper/brass
1 lb 11 oz tire weights

$44.06 cash

929 golf balls

[Silver4face]

Last report of 2024!

7 oz cans
13 oz steel

$1 FRN
4 quarters
5 dimes
2 nickels
14 pennies

34 golf balls


2024 totals

17 lb 6 oz cans
21 lb 6 oz steel
1 lb copper/brass
1 lb 11 oz tire weights

$44.06 cash

929 golf balls

Congratulations on the huge army of golf balls. Is that an all time annual record? Is the $44 cash a record? Also how many years have you been doing this?

[CrazyTom]

The 929 is a record for me, and I've been posting here for a number of years.

As for the cash, I've made more on other years.