I started in high school because my friends sister died and her boyfriend left his old car engine in their garage. My friends mom wanted it gone and i needed something to do as my foot was broken at the time and i needed something to do. So i broke it down in to as small of pieces as i could since my foot was still broke and i couldn't lift much. It was fun and i made money doing it so when my foot healed i saw a grill laying down by the river. Went to go get it and found a whole truck that washed up on the river bank. So since I didn't have a job then Me and my friends spent that spring clearing abandoned cars and other metal stuff out of those woods with nothing but a generator, hammer, and sawzall. After that I found you could get stuff on trash day so i was hauling loads in to the yard every day for awhile. It was nice money back then and I learned how to do it completely on my own. Soon it became an obsession. Even scrapped the whole time i was in the army.
to answer your question I continue doing it because its fun and I need to get myself out of debt, its the only thing im actually good at and I really like breaking things by hand. It gives me a work out and im doing productive things for the world instead of wasting my life worrying about dumb stuff that doesn't really matter.
I also enjoy building things out of other peoples waste. My main scrap trailer right now is the back of a pickup truck i bought from a junk auto auction. It was built by me out of scrap i found in a dumpster. Ive also got a 300k mile dakota i bought from the yard that I use for hauling stuff thats sure to put dents and scratches in the tacomas i use. When i load the dakota up i really don't care about what happens to the body work and The look people give you when your hauling a washing machine or two on the roof of your truck, is pretty priceless and that alone would be enough reason to keep me hauling.
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