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Pulled a all nighter and what a ride it has been.

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    Cool Pulled a all nighter and what a ride it has been.

    Well this Monday i went ball to the wall and covered 3 times my normal routes and really paid off. 2 tons of steel, 15 tvs, 7 pounds brass, 35 pounds copper, lots of wire etc etc etc lots of good stuff. Well im just heading to the scrap yard when i get a call about a guy that just won a few storage lockers and one of my guys i buy stuff off of passed my number along. well he telling me over the phone hes got all this and that and i just think great more crap that im gonna waste money on. So i get there and he got a danm nice pile of computer parts and accessories. I filled up my little civic till i was riding old blind guy style one my way home. Just as im driving past a speed trap BAM 3 more printers in a trash can. pop over and grab them all while the cops think that im going to go crazy and staring me down. So i grab the printers and open a door that i thought had some space and the wall of electronics com spilling out. I got a hurt foot and the cops got a good laugh. Ended up getting back home and i start looking at everything i got. And i think to myself danm i might have just actually did really good on this deal. I wanna take some photos when i wake back up, but im pretty stoked about getting this pile for only 50 bucks, just because i got a clicky key board out of it, 3 new printers, 5 new motherboards still in original casing. guess its time to rock out the ebay now. :-D



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    super cool man !

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    only problem is my pile is finally growing everyday instead of shrinking. just cant get down to the scrap yard fast enough

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    haul off the big heavy cheap stuff first, will make more room for the smaller more expensive things

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    Sounds like a problem we all want to have!

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    Bear, i cut down the larger items i get so they all fit in better, my record in the car is 409 lbs of steel in 1 trip. Unfortunately had a friend go to jail last night so roommate is out bailing him out and looks like im going to miss the trash runs this morning :-(. So im just gonna get to work on this pile and get some pics taken.

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    Good score! I totaly relate to scraping in a Honda Civic, wife is not impressed at times. it is like the old days playing tetris.

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    pizzaman...i like the tetris reference. i am also a car scrapper, though its larger, a dodge charger se. my record is 7 tvs at once. 1 up front (couldn't see the side mirror), 3 in the back organized like "tetris", and 3 in the trunk.


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