Lawn Care Scrapping

One of the shopping centers I mow had a carnival with rides set up in the parking lot all last week.
Now their long gone and today when I was mowing it I found something the carnies left behind.

Its from like a pickup truck bed gas tank or diesel tank. We have one on back of a 1975 chevy, 200 gallon diesel tank for when we mow roadsides with the tractors.
What I found is a hand pump for one of them tanks.



Great Plains Industries
Made in Wichita Kansas model HP-100

i do lawn sprinkler work with this guy servicing about 700 accounts... 99% suburban residential.... each season i get a decent amount of copper & brass scrap from pipes & valves that freeze and crack over the winter. sometimes get lucky and have to replace a double check valve, typically about 8 lbs of brass. most older types of sprinkler heads also have a 1/4 lb brass piece in them. and if i wanted to get overzealous, modern gear driven pop up sprinkler heads have a stainless steel coil inside...

seeing so many households i also offer to buy / take money off of bills for whatever else they may have laying around.... lot of auto batteries, stoves, washers, dryers, wire, pipes, chainlink fence sections, etc.

i start 5:30am too, so i drive by plenty of garbage on collection days as well!