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A pound of metal 2025

Postby CrazyTom » Wed Jan 01, 2025 10:55 am

While people were sleeping off last night's festivities I was out getting a start on the new year.

1 dime
10 pennies

9 golf balls
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby shinnosuke » Wed Jan 01, 2025 4:55 pm

CrazyTom wrote:While people were sleeping off last night's festivities I was out getting a start on the new year.

1 dime
10 pennies

9 golf balls


I hope 2025 is your best "pound of metal" ever!
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby Dr. Cadmium » Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:28 am

shinnosuke wrote:
I hope 2025 is your best "pound of metal" ever!


I second this. Keep pedaling Tom!
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby CrazyTom » Sun Jan 12, 2025 2:07 pm

Thanks guys.

Tool time, found 4 spanner wrenches, one 3/8" short extension, and a 10mm socket.

4 oz cans
1 lb 6 oz steel

1 penny
3 quarters

21 golf balls


2025 totals

4 oz cans
1 lb 6 oz steel

$0.87 cash

30 golf balls
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby shinnosuke » Sun Jan 12, 2025 5:22 pm

Tool bonanza! Plus 3 quarters. 2025 is looking good already.

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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby sparechange » Sun Jan 12, 2025 6:55 pm

Tool time, found 4 spanner wrenches, one 3/8" short extension, and a 10mm socket



Happy you found the 10mm I'm missing!
Amazing all the things you find!
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby CrazyTom » Sun Jan 26, 2025 2:39 pm

It finally happened, out on a nice Saturday afternoon ride. Spied a golf ball outside of the fence.
As I slowed to pick it up, I saw him. The golfer, looking at the ball, then looking at me with a helpless forlorn face.

"Your ball?, I asked.

"Yea......."

So I tossed it to him. The one that got away.

4 oz cans
5 oz steel
4 oz tire weights

1 quarter
2 dimes
2 nickels
12 pennies

33 golf balls




2025 totals

8 oz cans
1 lb 11 oz steel
4 oz tire weights

$1.54 cash

63 golf balls
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby shinnosuke » Mon Jan 27, 2025 5:32 pm

Tom, the Guardian Angel of Wayward Golf Balls
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby CrazyTom » Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:54 pm

shinnosuke wrote:Tom, the Guardian Angel of Wayward Golf Balls



So I was taking some stuff to Goodwill. Saw a golf ball in the drop off driveway. It has a Steelers helmet on one side
and Wilson on the other (the manufacturer, not the Steeler QB). The Irony....

I grew up in Pittsburgh. Sent a pic of the ball to my sis back home and she replied, "That's why someone got rid of it!"
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby shinnosuke » Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:36 am

Did you take your sister off your Christmas card list for that comment?
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby CrazyTom » Thu Jan 30, 2025 9:14 pm

shinnosuke wrote:Did you take your sister off your Christmas card list for that comment?


I'll send her the ball.
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby smalltimeopn » Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:30 am

Glad to see you are still at it Tom, keep going!!
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby CrazyTom » Sun Feb 23, 2025 11:52 am

Got a 1/4" nut driver with a little road rash but still usable.

13 oz cans
1 oz tire weight

2 quarters
7 dimes
5 nickels
25 pennies

42 golf balls





2025 totals

1 lb 5 oz cans
1 lb 11 oz steel
5 oz tire weights

$3.20 cash

105 golf balls
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby AGgressive Metal » Sat Mar 08, 2025 1:44 pm

what does one do with 105 golf balls?
And he that hath lyberte ought to kepe hit wel
For nothyng is better than lyberte
For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby CrazyTom » Sun Mar 09, 2025 1:45 pm

AGgressive Metal wrote:what does one do with 105 golf balls?


One sells them. I get 10 cents per, Titleist PROV bring 25 cents per.
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Re: A pound of metal 2025

Postby CrazyTom » Sun Mar 09, 2025 1:51 pm

Outside of an apartment complex, found a pile of dumped stuff. Salvaged a decent framing hammer and big hunk of plumbing brass.

3 oz cans
1 lb 1 oz brass
11 oz steel

2 quarters
4 dimes
7 pennies

26 golf balls




2025 totals

1 lb 8 oz cans
2 lb 6 oz steel
1 lb 1 oz brass
5 oz tire weights

$4.17 cash

131 golf balls
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