Just Been Down The Woods

Went down the local woods with myself and my friend.

I know for a fact no one has been down there for the same purpose as what we went down there for, metal of course.



We have found some nice appliances including some cookers, tables and various other scattered metals that we have left down there in a pile so we can collect at a later stage as this area is pretty low for crime and especially metal crimes. So no one will basically take "our" load.

I took a gym bag down with me to take any smaller parts up. We found two motors which were jam packed with copper wires. One motor being the biggest I have ever saw and the copper is out now and literally about the size of a bowling ball! Found what looks like the inside of a car wheel rim which is very thick indeed. We found the remains of a table, this was specifically a good find as the wood had been burnt off so only the thick corners were left. Several lengths of poles which I gather are old water pipes. Also we found various other random scattered materials including a large magnet.

All in all I have a very heavy gym bag now and a whole load waiting down there in the larger quantity!

lol not sure I would want to cary arround a gym bag of copper these days, you get stopped ya might have some splainin to do ricky.

Originally Posted by olddude

lol not sure I would want to cary arround a gym bag of copper these days, you get stopped ya might have some splainin to do ricky.

I think I would have talked them out of it with lines like - I'm clearing up the environment and there clearly just motors from lawnmowers

Nice find! When I was in college, I did something similar. There was a path that went beside a big river that people would go mudding at (driving big trucks through the mud). I found broken parts, a mattress spring set, an old boiler, a water heater and various other smaller things. I know the feeling of being in the woods and being amazed at what's there for the taking!

Great find, Dawsey! It really is amazing what you can find by going off the beaten path. People seems to dump some strange things sometimes.

Originally Posted by forwardlookguy

Nice find! When I was in college, I did something similar. There was a path that went beside a big river that people would go mudding at (driving big trucks through the mud). I found broken parts, a mattress spring set, an old boiler, a water heater and various other smaller things. I know the feeling of being in the woods and being amazed at what's there for the taking!

Originally Posted by Scrap Junky

Great find, Dawsey! It really is amazing what you can find by going off the beaten path. People seems to dump some strange things sometimes.

Totally agree with both of you here. People mindlessly through things over hedges, things with value, things which I find and cash in on

Awhile back went to my grandpas house to ask him if her knew were any metal was and he said there is a air compessor motor in the wood at the end of the road ( he lives on a dead end road) said no one wanted it so her rolled it down there. So me and him went and got it. It was in the middle of a creek packed with mud we pulled it out with a truck and chain. Took it in the next day it weighed **** near 200 lbs.

Seeing this thread POP back up made me remember something...

When I was young we had a big wooded field in my neighborhood we played in.... Back then we found literally tons of stuff.. couple old cars, 55 gal drums, thousands of cans..and plenty more to name.

Now it seems as if no one goes back there any more, the neighborhood has been built up blocking the entrances and it looks pretty over grown from the road...

The real catch is water is pumped from the Ohio River into this area to prevent flooding in the neighborhoods, so there is probably items still floating into there today, I think I need to get back there one day soon and see what I can find

Originally Posted by Bobby

Seeing this thread POP back up made me remember something...

When I was young we had a big wooded field in my neighborhood we played in.... Back then we found literally tons of stuff.. couple old cars, 55 gal drums, thousands of cans..and plenty more to name.

Now it seems as if no one goes back there any more, the neighborhood has been built up blocking the entrances and it looks pretty over grown from the road...

The real catch is water is pumped from the Ohio River into this area to prevent flooding in the neighborhoods, so there is probably items still floating into there today, I think I need to get back there one day soon and see what I can find

Nice man. I went to a dump today and have got some slim picking but this dump was not meant to bring me metal but bottles. Old antique bottles. I have at least a dozen of them now and are all going for high prices on eBay via research

in woods near me there used to be a farm but now theres a school and they built an addition and dumped the the leftover materials. there was rebar ,pipes, cans , solid iron fence posts a couple hundred. haha oh yea some asbestos cement pipe to.