A pound of metal per mile......

[CrazyTom]

Back on the road this weekend and cleaning up the metal.

Steel 6 lb 1 oz
Lead wheel weights 1 lb
Cans 13 oz

Found a nice 3/8 socket wrench extension and two sockets. Those went in the tool box.

3 zinc pennies

1 golf ball

Dammit, Tom, what do you do with all those golf balls? You must have a 55 gallon drum full of 'em by now. This could be the most profitable item you pick up - sort and clean by brandname and sell them for .50 a piece on craigslist?

I have a cardboard box full of them. Find a buyer who will pay shipping and I'll split it with you!

[OneBiteAtATime]

I have a cardboard box full of them. Find a buyer who will pay shipping and I'll split it with you!

About how many golf ball bullion "rounds" would you say you have in that box?

I imagine we could do something like this in the buy, sell, trade here -

http://www.ebay.com/itm/100-Experienced ... 1e65f915a8

Perhaps trade a gross of golfballs shipped for a peace dollar shipped.

You get the first one, I get the second and so on and so forth... my address is in a forthcoming PM!

[CrazyTom]

I have a cardboard box full of them. Find a buyer who will pay shipping and I'll split it with you!

About how many golf ball bullion "rounds" would you say you have in that box?

I imagine we could do something like this in the buy, sell, trade here -

http://www.ebay.com/itm/100-Experienced ... 1e65f915a8

Perhaps trade a gross of golfballs shipped for a peace dollar shipped.

You get the first one, I get the second and so on and so forth... my address is in a forthcoming PM!

At last count I have 149, all different brands, some have company and sport logos, most are clean. A few are colored yellow and one orange.

[CrazyTom]

I'm going to post a report tomorrow. Since I'm off for the holiday I'm going to get another ride in
on top of Friday and the weekend. Already have a number of bags nigh unto bursting!

[hirbonzig]

8 AL cans and a few rusty washers from this mornings walk.

[CrazyTom]

4 days of riding brought in the metal.

steel 11 lb 7 oz (one bolt alone weighed one pound)

lead wheel weights 2 lb 4 oz

aluminum 1 lb

brass/copper 11 oz

cans 2 lb 9 oz

This was the weekend for lug nuts, got a handful.

4 golf balls
1 clad quarter
1 clad dime
8 zinc pennies

1 silver Roosevelt from the Saturday bank run.

My labors this Labor Day!

[Robarons]

Have you ever found any jewelry? I have myself used to find stray Sterling or 14k earrings or ran over rings and such.

If you find pennies I figure you have the chance to find other goodies.

[CrazyTom]

Have you ever found any jewelry? I have myself used to find stray Sterling or 14k earrings or ran over rings and such.

If you find pennies I figure you have the chance to find other goodies.

I did find a smashed earring once. It had a little silver but the guy I took it to didn't
want to bother with it.

I wonder if highly agitated females throw them out the car window to demonstrate
to their worthless boyfriends just what they think of them.

[CrazyTom]

Two good rides this weekend produced the following;

5 lb 10 oz steel
14 oz lead wheel weights
1 oz brass
1 oz aluminum
1 lb 1 oz pop cans

4 zinc pennies

I was in Yuma, Az. for work this last week and I was eagerly looking forward to hitting some banks for silver.
Then the power went down in the multi-state blackout. May the Steeler gods bless me with steel this Sunday.......

[CrazyTom]

Well, the Steeler gods really blew it last week but I still got steel this week.

Saturday and Sunday rides brought the following:

1 lb 6 oz pop cans
3 lb 9 oz steel
2 oz brass (a plumbing angle stop, a key)
15 oz lead wheel weights
1 oz aluminum

2 golf balls

2 clad quarters
2 clad dimes
5 zinc pennies

1 silver Roosevelt from the Saturday bank run

Had to get a tire on my baby '86 Ford F-250 Saturday. I nonchalantly patrolled the parking lot and came up with
two lead weights and one 7mm socket. Also had to get the heater core in the dash replaced because
it sprung a leak. The replacement is aluminum, the old one is three pounds of brass.

[shinnosuke]

Had to get a tire on my baby '86 Ford F-250 Saturday. I nonchalantly patrolled the parking lot and came up with
two lead weights and one 7mm socket. Also had to get the heater core in the dash replaced because
it sprung a leak. The replacement is aluminum, the old one is three pounds of brass.

I recently did the same thing at a Home Depot parking lot while waiting for my credit union next door to open. I picked up a couple dozen nails along with various other metal chunks, slivers and pop cans. Thought about showing it all to the manager to warn him about damage to his customers' tires. Then I figured if he didn't have that much common sense it would only be a waste of time.

Tom, just a reminder, it's not necessary to use the word "baby" when talking about a Ford. All Ford products are babies. I prefer grown-up, real man vehicles made by Mopar.

[moparal7]

Had to get a tire on my baby '86 Ford F-250 Saturday. I nonchalantly patrolled the parking lot and came up with
two lead weights and one 7mm socket. Also had to get the heater core in the dash replaced because
it sprung a leak. The replacement is aluminum, the old one is three pounds of brass.

I recently did the same thing at a Home Depot parking lot while waiting for my credit union next door to open. I picked up a couple dozen nails along with various other metal chunks, slivers and pop cans. Thought about showing it all to the manager to warn him about damage to his customers' tires. Then I figured if he didn't have that much common sense it would only be a waste of time.

Tom, just a reminder, it's not necessary to use the word "baby" when talking about a Ford. All Ford products are babies. I prefer grown-up, real man vehicles made by Mopar.

Could not have said it any better.

[shinnosuke]

Had to get a tire on my baby '86 Ford F-250 Saturday. I nonchalantly patrolled the parking lot and came up with
two lead weights and one 7mm socket. Also had to get the heater core in the dash replaced because
it sprung a leak. The replacement is aluminum, the old one is three pounds of brass.

I recently did the same thing at a Home Depot parking lot while waiting for my credit union next door to open. I picked up a couple dozen nails along with various other metal chunks, slivers and pop cans. Thought about showing it all to the manager to warn him about damage to his customers' tires. Then I figured if he didn't have that much common sense it would only be a waste of time.

Tom, just a reminder, it's not necessary to use the word "baby" when talking about a Ford. All Ford products are babies. I prefer grown-up, real man vehicles made by Mopar.

Could not have said it any better.

[CrazyTom]

Had to get a tire on my baby '86 Ford F-250 Saturday. I nonchalantly patrolled the parking lot and came up with
two lead weights and one 7mm socket. Also had to get the heater core in the dash replaced because
it sprung a leak. The replacement is aluminum, the old one is three pounds of brass.

I recently did the same thing at a Home Depot parking lot while waiting for my credit union next door to open. I picked up a couple dozen nails along with various other metal chunks, slivers and pop cans. Thought about showing it all to the manager to warn him about damage to his customers' tires. Then I figured if he didn't have that much common sense it would only be a waste of time.

Tom, just a reminder, it's not necessary to use the word "baby" when talking about a Ford. All Ford products are babies. I prefer grown-up, real man vehicles made by Mopar.

Well, it's an ugly baby that the wife wants to throw out with the bath water. That's why I keep it.

It has a tool box bed and can take a real beating. The kind of beating that tossing in scrap causes.

[shinnosuke]

I see now. Yeah, that baby is a keeper. Carry on, soldier.

[CrazyTom]

Only a Sunday ride this weekend because I was in Yuma Az. for work. Even so, while there
I got a silver Roosevelt from a Wells Fargo.

This single ride was more than normal.

15 oz pop cans
8 lb 14 oz steel
4 oz brass
7 oz lead wheel weights

Some good steel weight came from a smashed caulk gun,
a heat shield from a catalytic converter, and a connector for scaffolding.

City workers used a torch to cut pieces of a sign post and just left it there for me to clean up.

3 zinc pennies
2 clad dimes
1 clad quarter (from a Taco Hell drive through)

2 golf balls ( a smashed caulk and two lost balls sounds terrible)

[shinnosuke]

2 golf balls ( a smashed caulk and two lost balls sounds terrible)

[PennyBoy]

CrazyTom, you ought to start a thread similar to Market Harmony's "Learn & Earn - PM scrapping at Yard Sales, Flea Markets, etc". Of course yours would be for base metals. Keep up the posts, it's great entertainment!

[CrazyTom]

It is no longer a death sentence to go outside here in Mesa so work has tapered a little. Got 4 rides in this week.

7 lb 10 oz steel
12 oz lead wheel weights
1 lb 12 oz cans
4 oz copper/brass

1 golf ball

1 clad quarter
2 clad dimes
8 zinc pennies
1 copper penny
1 nickel

2 silver Roosevelts on the Saturday bank run

1 Hot Wheel sized toy truck (made in China, of course).

Most of the steel was in a heavy chain, a brake pad, and a piece of pipe.

[CrazyTom]

This weekend really brought in the metal.

I found a 14 lb 3 oz automotive AC compressor, mostly cast aluminum and a steel clutch.
Getting it home took all my reserve plastic grocery bags. Steering the bike was a little
dicey with all that weight on the bars. Should have took the backpack!

1 lb 4 oz pop cans
6 lb 2 oz steel
9 oz lead wheel weights

I found a 5" steel hole saw. That would have really messed up a tire!
Also a 12mm box wrench labeled "mastergrip". Looks like a Chinese knockoff to me.

2 zinc pennies
1 golf ball

I'll be out of town next weekend...........

[CrazyTom]

Back in town and managed a small ride but not enough worth weighing yet.
However, I'd like to note that I found a crack spoon, complete with soot on
the bottom and a yellow crusty residue in the bowl.

Its metal. So I picked it up. That's how I get high.

[CrazyTom]

Back on the road again like Wilie Nelson and getting the metal.

8 lb 13 oz steel (including the crack spoon previously mentioned)
1 lb 12 oz lead wheel weights
1 lb 8 oz cans
2 oz copper/brass

A nice heavy steel find was a clevis hook.

1 Phillips screwdriver
1 mini Leatherman tool

1 clad quarter
1 nickel
1 copper penny
12 zinc pennies

2 silver Roosevelt's from the Saturday bank run

[CrazyTom]

This weekend's rides produced the following;

7 oz pop cans
9 lb 7 oz steel
5 oz lead wheel weights
1 lb 2 oz brass/copper

2 nickels
1 clad quarter
1 clad dime
1 copper penny
5 zinc pennies

I found another clevis hook. And a butcher knife minus the handle, kinda creepy but it is Halloween.
I kept thinking, "If I crash and fall on it........."

[CrazyTom]

Some good miles this week brought in;

6 lb 11 oz steel
1 lb 12 oz cans
10 oz copper/brass
2 lb 10 oz wheel weights
3 oz aluminum

2 golf balls

3 clad dimes
17 zinc pennies
1 copper penny

1 silver Roosevelt from the Saturday bank run

Most of the pennies came from what looked like a tool box dump at a dead end. No tools but a small pile
of screws, washers, nuts, and bolts along with the pennies.

A nice find was a brand new 1 gallon Blitz plastic gas can, complete with nozzle and locking cap. It looked as though someone might have run out of gas and when they returned from the convenience store (where they just happen to sell such cans) the driver left it behind.

Mine now.

[Rosco]

I have spent time on I-5 lately an see goodies but doubt if stopping car to risk life to pick up Wheel chock is worth it.
The Male thing keeps me off a bicycle, My one mile Walks to town have not produced an Wheel Weights they fixed main thru town an the Weights dried up there also