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I've been getting back into sorting rolls more and more the past few weeks. Picking up from two branches in town and dumping at a third. Well, I keep getting the same teller at my dump bank. Today she jokingly said to me, "What are you doing, emptying your piggy bank? You're making all this work for me! It's a good thing you have an account here or I'd have to charge you a fee!" I said, "Oh. I thought I was keeping you stocked!"

Well, I recognized her name, and it turns out her husband is a teacher at the school I work at. Nice to have a teller friend. I dumped out my bank bag of coins to cash in, and the total came to $73.50. I fished out a half dollar, that I keep in my pocket for such occasions. She said, "Oh, not you with another half dollar again!"

My brain: LIGHT BULB! "Oh. Do you have any half dollars you want to get rid of?" To which she said, "Yes, $410 worth! As long as you don't bring them back to me. You have to promise! They are in the vault right now and won't be available until tomorrow."

SWEET! So I plan on coming back tomorrow with cash and getting as much as I can! I guess it's possible to carry that many rolls of halves? This is extra sweet, because this branch used to be my pick up bank for halves, until I was met too many times with the response, "No, we don't carry halves."

Sweet. Just bring a hefty bag with you. $410 in halves is easy to carry in a bag. If you tried to stuff your pockets with all of those rolls, then you would be having issues A full bag of halves is $1000 and I'll lug 2 bags into a bank in one trip and the most painful part of that is the look that I get from the tellers Good luck and may you find lots of silver!

A full bag of halves is $1000 and I'll lug 2 bags into a bank in one trip and the most painful part of that is the look that I get from the tellers

NHsorter, you must have some serious arms. I bet the ladies like dem guns! Seriously, that is about 100 pounds you are lugging. I can carry one bag. I am 5'6", weigh 150 pounds and am in reasonably good physical shape. Anyone attempting to carry more than one $1000.00 bag of halves should think twice about possible back injuries, arm strains, etc. before doing it. Once you hurt your back, it can take a long time to recover and sometimes a person never fully recovers from a back strain injury. My brother carried too much lumber one weekend. Three years later, and five surgeries later, he is a couple inches shorter, having had a couple sections of his spine removed.

Good luck sorting ducttales253, et al..

2 - 1k bags of halves is fairly easy to carry. I get that workout several times a week.

Aqualung48 wrote:

A full bag of halves is $1000 and I'll lug 2 bags into a bank in one trip and the most painful part of that is the look that I get from the tellers

NHsorter, you must have some serious arms. I bet the ladies like dem guns! Seriously, that is about 100 pounds you are lugging. I can carry one bag. I am 5'6", weigh 150 pounds and am in reasonably good physical shape. Anyone attempting to carry more than one $1000.00 bag of halves should think twice about possible back injuries, arm strains, etc. before doing it. Once you hurt your back, it can take a long time to recover and sometimes a person never fully recovers from a back strain injury. My brother carried too much lumber one weekend. Three years later, and five surgeries later, he is a couple inches shorter, having had a couple sections of his spine removed.

Good luck sorting ducttales253, et al..

If I get hurt, It'll be playing hockey or playing lumber jack on the weekends. I'm NOT huge. 5"8 165 or so. But I don't have a problem with the bags. I lug around a lot of full 5 gallon pails at work and have done so for over 10 years so maybe I built up my lugging muscles because I don't have to strain to move the bags. If I had to do a couple flights of stairs though, I would probably get winded

Note to self. Never arm wrestle with NHsorter or AGcoinhunter!

I'll let you young guys do that kind of lifting. With my back the max is $1000, past that it immediately shows it disapproval.

BamaJoe wrote:I'll let you young guys do that kind of lifting. With my back the max is $1000, past that it immediately shows it disapproval.

With all of the half sorting that you do, that must be a lot of trips! Guess I am still more young and arrogant than old and wise. If I was doing this 10 years ago, and the teller was hot, I probably would have tried to do 4 bags at once

NHsorter wrote:

BamaJoe wrote:I'll let you young guys do that kind of lifting. With my back the max is $1000, past that it immediately shows it disapproval.

With all of the half sorting that you do, that must be a lot of trips! Guess I am still more young and arrogant than old and wise. If I was doing this 10 years ago, and the teller was hot, I probably would have tried to do 4 bags at once

The secret is KIDS A 16 year old and a 13 year old. They get drafted to unload the truck and stack it by my desk and when they are sorted they load the truck. When I do my pickup I used a hand truck. Thankfully I usually only have to manually carry boxes is when I dump them.

BamaJoe wrote:

NHsorter wrote:

BamaJoe wrote:I'll let you young guys do that kind of lifting. With my back the max is $1000, past that it immediately shows it disapproval.

With all of the half sorting that you do, that must be a lot of trips! Guess I am still more young and arrogant than old and wise. If I was doing this 10 years ago, and the teller was hot, I probably would have tried to do 4 bags at once

The secret is KIDS A 16 year old and a 13 year old. They get drafted to unload the truck and stack it by my desk and when they are sorted they load the truck. When I do my pickup I used a hand truck. Thankfully I usually only have to manually carry boxes is when I dump them.

Absolutely! My 2 kids are only old enough to slide penny boxes off the coffee table and drop them on their toes right now. But once they are strong enough to safely haul this stuff, they will be drafted into service. Oh, the child labor that I have planned for them is truly exciting! I call it dividends.

and sorry to Ducktales for diverting the hell out of this thread on you.

6 boxes of halves or four bags of 750 was what I would pick up and dump when I was at my sorting peak. Being a former competitive power lifter has it perks...

Aqualung48 wrote:Note to self. Never arm wrestle with NHsorter or AGcoinhunter!

I am 6'6" 275lbs. That might have somehthing to do with it.

The kids thing sounds good, but I am in the same boat with NH right now. Mine are too small. Dividends yes, but damn there were and still are lots of sleepless nights I have had to pay with...

NHsorter wrote:and sorry to Ducktales for diverting the hell out of this thread on you.

Haha, no problem! It sounds like this pickup will be small compared to what some of you have lifted. I'll try to bring an extra bag or two. My 30-year-old frame can handle it!

Stay tuned for results!

Just last week I brought in 4 bags of Halfs ($1000 each) the teller said that the bag weighed too much for the brinks guy to carry out. She said it had to be broken down into $500 bags. I asked her if they were going to charge me for the excess bags... She said no and then gave me 25 coin look bags to use. They are like .60 cents a bag. It starts to add p over the year.
When I got home I weighed a bag of $1000 Halfs. It weighs exactly 49.6#
I used to carry two bags in at a time. I used to tell the tellers that this was my routine to keep my boyish figure. The girls always seem to laugh at that. I usually bit my lip when the "little" guys would try to carry the bags to the back. I am 6'2", weigh about 280 and have a size 15 shoe (since everyone was throwing their stats in there)i finally broke down and bought this nifty little folding platform dolly when i am dropping off or picking up more than $5000 at a time. The upright ones dont usually have a back, so the coins fall out. I got the cart off amazon. I'll post it's name later I highly recommend it.

magnacart?

Def. Kids noun 1. Pets that do chores.

Went through $100 worth of the halves. No silver. Who's dumping at my bank?!

fb101 wrote:magnacart?

Yes... here is a link to it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TITK8O/ref=oh_details_o00_s01_i00
I just stacked 5 x $1000 bags (49.6 x 5=248#) plus 5 x $50 bags (34 x 5=170#) on it and delivered to the bank. It folds up and fits nicely in the trunk. What is also nice is when you fold it up and are carrying it... it is less suspecting than a guy (see description) walking around with a full dolly/handtruck.
I can see how eventually the folding/upright bar might become loose. I'm just going to PULL the cart instead of pushing it. I hope that will cut down on it becoming that way.

All this year I've been picking up 3 or 4 times a week. I've noticed my arms are getting stronger and my forearms more toned. CRH does have its perks!

I use the cart from the bank.

I was carrying $1000 worth in at a time once a week for the last couple of years. Did not seem to bother me none. However, I did just have shoulder surgery recently, wonder if their is a correlation.