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    Selling fish heads

    So my former employer tells me the other day,” I’d sell fish heads if there was money in them.” Point being it doesn’t matter what you do for money, if it works.



    I had a great run today. Thought it might be more interesting than spam so….

    Picked up 60ish hard drives from document destruction company. Kind of funny the owner is blind because your sensitive info is truly protected.

    Next stop, 2nd hand store. Picked up 2lb brass candlestick holder for .99 and picture frame marked 925 for 1.99. I would say it contains around 2 oz of silver.

    On over to a quick 1hr job that nets $40. Out to Gold panning spot and waste hours listening to the water flow and find couple tiny flakes and some dust.

    Trip home pick up 36 batteries (leave 12 more behind because my Nissan Frontier was looking smashed.) Ok wasn’t really 36 batteries and 12 left behind, it was actually 15 batteries and 7 commercial batteries (3 in 1) and 4 commercial batteries left behind. There is a lot of mining out that way, must be from the equipment. Maybe 10lbs of Ni-Cd batteries also.

    Cut a catalytic converter off an older Nissan pick up. Radiator was already gone. Couple pounds of aluminum, couple pounds of brass, and maybe a pound of copper. Picked up a computer tower and battery back up and a few other small goodies. Guess I’m going back for more batteries tomorrow and who knows what else.

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    sure sounds like a good day to me J.....btw, I have a Nissan Frontier also....just turned over 100,000 miles.

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    Nice haul J. That's cool you can go pan for gold whenever. I would find that so relaxing.
    Faith x Needs = Motivation

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saroro View Post
    Nice haul J. That's cool you can go pan for gold whenever. I would find that so relaxing.
    It is relaxing. I used to do that quite a bit when I was working in Arizona.

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    Mentally relaxing yes. Digging holes, carrying buckets, sorting rocks, depending on your pace can be a workout. But I think many people who scrap would enjoy this version of separating the junk from the good stuff.

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    I've been looking into them too Mrdew. Got to use my brother in laws this last weekend and fell in love with them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saroro View Post
    I've been looking into them too Mrdew. Got to use my brother in laws this last weekend and fell in love with them.
    Did you get anything good when hunting?

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    A metal detector would be fun I bet. Are you going after jewerly, coins, and stuff or natural elements? Also, has anyone used a geiger counter?

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    My brother-in-law rents an old farm house. In the ten minutes of looking, we found an old nut or socket. Round with a square hole through it. Also something that look like it had been a chain link with a bolt through it all rusted together. Wanted to keep looking, but had to lay the little one down to sleep.

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    I have a cheaper metal detector that I bought in high school (obviously I wasn't the cool kid!) and it is alot of fun. You find alot of junk before you get the good stuff. I live in the midwest so I mainly search old farm steads. Alot of cool stuff around farms. I bought a farm a few years ago and haven't really found anything of to much value. Before I got into scrapping my uncle helped bury a farm that was hit my a tornado, I can't believe what they put in the hole. All that metal just wasted.

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    You can sell fish heads so tell your former employer to get busy. Fish hydrosolate, fish oil, etc.

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    metal detecting is also one of my hobbies (it seems to go hand-in-hand with scrapping). Although I haven't found my cache of gold bullion yet I still have a great time. I average about $1.50 an hour in clad. The best thing I have found thus far was a 24k gold pendant worth about $75 in gold.

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    I used to sell fish heads for 1.00 a pound for crab bait so there is a market for pretty much everything! BL, what kind of detector do you have?

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    Freonjoe...I just have a cheapie Bounty Hunter and a Harbor Freight pinpointer for now. My goal is to save all the clad I find and when I have enough to buy a White's or a Garrett Ace I'll pull the trigger on a better setup. Ideally I would like for the detector to pay for itself.

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    BL, check out the Tesoro line too. I've had the best luck with them.

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    I got a Whites MXT with a deep scan head works pretty awesome, nothing spectacular for me yet though.

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    Those batteries are a good find as is & the cat

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    Found this with my Tesoro Silver Sabre a couple of weekends ago. It's a men's class ring from Basin, Wyoming. Has a date of 1958 on it!


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    Sweet find Joe! I really want to go back to the east coast and find some old goodies there. It is hard to really find any colonial pieces here in Colorado because we are still a fairly young state.

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    I'm heading to the beach with my cheapie metal detector today. Going to give it a Whirl...

    Need to get some money put back together so I can start scrapping again!
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