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Well y'all know I love equipment. So this week I added a new piece of equipment to my operation. I wanted to spread the workload a little bit so the Camry didn't do all the work.. so I picked up this addition to the fleet. I call it PennyHauler 2. Always nice to get some new wheels. And of course I paid for it entirely in pennies and nickels.. though the seller made me convert them to Benjamins first.



This is a pic of it's first hauling duties. Thought I would start it off light with a single 69 pound box of copper being hauled to the post office this morning. The 740i seems to have decent trunk space for hauling lots of pennies. Seems to be a good luck charm too. On it's first drive-by a bank gave $130 in pennies, $152 in nickels, $250 in dimes, and $100 in quarters. I was thinking this load seemed kind of heavy as I lugged it out all at once in the one bag I brought plus the 3 free bonus canvas bank bags the bank gave to me. As I drove my booty back to the Penny Processing Center I did a rough calculation of the weight of the coins in my head and guestimated them at 128 pounds. I put them on the scale when I got back and they came in at 127.42 pounds.. not bad for estimating. I think I might have to start packing the cart when I do drive-bys or at least make sure I eat my wheaties.

HoardCopperByTheTon wrote: I might have to start packing the cart when I do drive-bys or at least make sure I eat my wheaties.

Isn't all that copper hard on the teeth?

NIce wheels, Hoard!

Hey.. I'm tough. How many guys do you know that lug out over 127 pounds of coins at a time in bags with no cart? And I love all kinds of wheaties.. a guy just can't have enough.

LOL. Nice set of new wheels that ya got there. Curiosity got to me, so let's do the math when you carried in all those pennies/nickels. Sorry, I can't resist.

Nickels: at $20K (estimate only) for the new wheels, that's 800,000 nickels. One nickel weighs 5 grams, so that's (800,000 * 5) / 453.6 = 8,818.3 pounds (or 4.4 tons). Um...I'm willing to bet that Pennyhauler 1 can't quite take that load, even if you have a hitch and a large trailer.

Then again, you probably didn't carry in all Ni; after all, copper is your bread and butter, like most of us.

Pennies: at $20K for the new wheels, that's 2 million pennies. One penny (zinc, of course) weighs 2.5 grams, so that's (2,000,000 * 2.5) /453.6 = 11,022.9 pounds (or 5.51 tons).

I take it you brought a semi 18-wheeler with you? Of course, it's less weight if you could have negotiated at 1.7x face.

I love my wheaties too (yesterday's box 14, today's box only 8).

I cashed in the nickels and zinc over the space of a week.. and PennyHauler 1, the Camry did all the hauling. And don't worry.. none of the pennies were copper.. it was all zinc.

Here's a pic of most of the nickels.. before I sorted them.


I got 1450 wheaties delivered right to my PO box today.. not as many as I bought a couple of weeks ago.. but a nice addition to the hoard.

HoardCopperByTheTon wrote:Hey.. I'm tough. How many guys do you know that lug out over 127 pounds of coins at a time in bags with no cart? And I love all kinds of wheaties.. a guy just can't have enough.

127 pounds? Yeah, man, you are tough! It must be all those years handling tons of copper! Are you talking about one of those folding, two wheeler carts? That would fit in the truck nicely.

There is this tiny little teller girl at one of my pickup banks. I always feel sorry for her when she brings out a $1,000 bag of halves, but she just laughs about it and says it is good for her. Coins make you strong!

I have the folding 2 wheeler cart.. but I usually use the folding 4 wheel dolly.. 660 pound capacity. I always take that when I am doing one of my scheduled pickups.. but didn't figure I would need it for a drive-by.

How about a pic of the entire car?

The part that really got my attention is where you scored $632.00 in free coins! How did you pull that off?

HoardCopperByTheTon wrote:I have the folding 2 wheeler cart.. but I usually use the folding 4 wheel dolly.. 660 pound capacity. I always take that when I am doing one of my scheduled pickups.. but didn't figure I would need it for a drive-by.

Nice ride. I love the 7 series.

I put new shocks in the Astro. They claim to help keep it level up to 1200lb payload. Worked great with the 800lbs i had loaded in it.

Side note, the 500lb rated rubbermaid cart handled the 800lbs also.

HoardCopperByTheTon wrote:I have the folding 2 wheeler cart.. but I usually use the folding 4 wheel dolly.. 660 pound capacity. I always take that when I am doing one of my scheduled pickups.. but didn't figure I would need it for a drive-by.

I used to work with one of those every day. It was large. I don't remember it's capacity. It stayed behind when I switched jobs. Great idea. My pickups are not that big right now, but they are growing. I will have to get one soon!

Are you just sorting the nickels to find silver war nickels? Why not keep them for the copper / nickel content?

I always get scared that in a car trunk, they usually have the little door that opens for the spare tire. How do you guys not break those when moving serious weight? or when you fly over railroad tracks at 50 and they slam down?

a beemer? now how practical is that???? should've gotten a 3/4ton suburban! will haul a ton without complaining and last 300k+ miles without even trying. I just picked up a 97 tahoe to flip with 312k miles all original and she still purrs like a kitten!
All in all, the 7 series is a nice ride but brutal to fix. LOL maybe you can pay the mechanic in zinc!

Its always good to look good while driving around on your runs...

Its a dichotomy to the fullest!

Judging from the pictures I am going to guess its a 1992??

You are pretty good.. it is a 1993 740i. Hauls pennies really well too.. I tested it out thoroughly Sunday.

HoardCopperByTheTon wrote:You are pretty good.. it is a 1993 740i. Hauls pennies really well too.. I tested it out thoroughly Sunday.

Headlights give it away

Also you need to get bigger straps if you are going to fit a ton back there.

I have a similar car (730i 1992) that I purchased used in Germany. Great carrying capability, plus the more you carry the greater its grip on the road (rear-wheel drive).

Keep hauling away....

Cheers,