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    Got Dirt lol

    WBAY - Oshkosh business owner charged in $14 million scrap auto scheme -



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    I deal with sadoff on a regular basis, was up there Friday when the yard boss told me they were about to arrest the owner.

    Kienbaums lived in Omro where I grew up when I was little, they were the kids that had the four wheelers and snowmobiles, the new trucks and stuff like that. The old man owned the yard with a partner he ended up screwing over. I don't know what happened but Sterling took over, he was the oldest boy, he was already in his twenties (and already a dirtbag, he used to pick on all of us and throw beer bottles and garbage on our lawn). He also did a little tail chasing in the bars and such, nothing wrong with that for a young guy but again all I remember is he was a dirtbag and nasty to everyone, my step dad kicked him off the softball team don't remember why. I might have seen him a few years ago, I think I was up there to chase some scrap computers out of the pile possibly looking for 02 sensors and such, they crushed cars for a yard in Neenah, pretty much a glorified trucking company. And that's about everything I know.
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    I am trying to make sense of this.

    Sadoff Iron and Metal must do a huge volume with a nice profit margin to pay out $14 million for dirt and still be in business.

    Let's assume the average price paid for shred since 2008 is 7 cents a pound. That $14 million is 200 million pounds of dirt. One would think that after the first few million pounds of dirt showed up that someone would think that something odd was going on.

    And where did Sterling Kienbaum get 200 million pounds of dirt? Are there a number of large holes scattered around that no one has noticed? Or did he use a really large broom and shovel to clean up the neighborhood?

    And where did Sadoff Iron and Metal put that 200 million pounds of dirt? Did they go fill up all the big holes they could find?

    So many questions and no good answers.

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    Dirt weighs a lot. Depending on moisture content and soil type, the average weight is 2200lbs per cubic yard. Your average Gaylord box holds about 1.5 cubic yards.

    A basement that one of my dads neighbors had dug for his doublewide was 28' wide, 48' long, and 8' deep. That was 400 cubic yards removed, or 880,000lbs.

    Also, whole cars paid more than general shred in my experience. So the math of 200 million pounds would be way off.
    In 2013, I almost dumped my piece of crap Jetta for $14/hundred that one yard was offering.

    There's no telling how much dirt he put in those cars, but the yard is going off of that data they have on him that goes back to 2009. So they're charging him as if he has been doing it for the last 8 years.
    Since the crane operator and truck driver involved only got probation and restitution for felony theft charges, I'm guessing they're cooperating with authorities by spilling the beans on what went down.
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    I do alot of business with his brother karl in fon du lac...I buy all of his insulated copper wire. In a round about way he told me to avoid sterling and sterlings wife is a huge pain in the ass from what ive been told also lol. I know for a fact that Karl saves all of his clean copper,so much in a trailer one time it broke thru the floor on a semi trailer. I have dealt with him for at least 10 years.

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    Do you mean Carl? He works at american soemthing in fondie? I grew up with him, good dude. Course, haven't seem him in a very long time and pretty sure he wouldn't have a clue who I am anymore lol.

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    I had wondered about filling up Vacuum Cleaner Bags and bins with broken window glass from patio doors when I scrap the vacuum. I have a 32 gal trash can full of broken glass. But I wont add it to the scrap, even though a little at a time I am sure I could! LOL Even peddlers of scrap that cheat the system the fraud gets passed along to the final buyer (unless its water or ice I am sure that goes away). Screw a yard and they will screw you, but they will try and pass the buck hot potato style until they get caught!

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    yes sir


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