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    a day in my life

    Wake up go to work, not my favorite part of the day, get off work eat dinner and hang out with the wife kids and then scrap til bout 1 in th morning ! Hard schedule to keep up but its so worth it !



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    Work 6 days a week as light mechinc and lube tech hauled 400 ton last year hoping to beat that this year

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    How much of that was non-ferrous?

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    Hmm, what's the biggest fish you ever caught?
    AMERICAN BORN, AMERICAN BRED! AND I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!

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    At min your at 40000 yr in scrap why work 6 days a week for 10 hr lube tech

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    Tater that sounds just like my day.
    "Easy does it, first things first, do what you can. Believe me, I too have been through the wringer." Bill W.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skippy View Post
    At min your at 40000 yr in scrap why work 6 days a week for 10 hr lube tech
    I love changing oil ! Not really have fully paid health insurance at work and got three kids

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    Quote Originally Posted by freonjoe View Post
    How much of that was non-ferrous?
    That's just the iron never have figured up the aluminum copper or the other Lil stuff

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    Quote Originally Posted by skylinejack View Post
    Hmm, what's the biggest fish you ever caught?
    5 pound bass thankfully I'm way better at scrapping !

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    Quote Originally Posted by taterjuice View Post
    Work 6 days a week as light mechinc and lube tech hauled 400 ton last year hoping to beat that this year
    Am I reading this right? 400 Tons or 800,000 pounds of metal hauled to the yard last year. That's an average of over a ton a day.
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    Sure enough dont sleep much get plenty of time to sleep when im dead

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    KZ, that's not that hard to do. I did 300 tons of appliances last year (600,000 pounds) working part time.

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    Where in skippies sake do you all find that much appli/metal glad to hear you do anyways. My flatbeds down till I get her legal

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    Commercial accounts for me.

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    What kind of commercial accounts like apartments. I would have to get a bus licence and cards, flyers and junk first

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    Lets see 10.5 hr in the shop for business, then 8+ after the doors close to get loads ready for tomorrow, I am lucky to sleep 5 hrs a day. Speaking of which dinner is over and I can get a double load in before noon tomorrow.

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    Well you guys are some busy dudes...I never considered myself lazy but now I'm starting to wonder.

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    scrapping supports my fishing habit, when i am not fishing for a living.the rest of the time i pull net 14 hours a day and then go cast a pole for 30 min or more.

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    Really not that hard to haul 400 ton a year but when your also working 6 days a week 7 to 5 well I'm pretty pleased with that. Hoping to start a legit biz and leave the mechanic work to someone else. Some day soon I hope

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    Wake up go to work, not my favorite part of the day, get off work eat dinner and hang out with the wife kids and then scrap til bout 1 in th morning ! Hard schedule to keep up but its so worth it !
    Wake up go to work, I have s*x with my wife whenever I want.
    visit the kids.
    work D*MN hard , likewise, sometimes not much, because what I've learned.
    Visit with my children.
    I doubt I could work a full-time job myself anymore, unless it paid D*MN well anyway.
    I drink too many beers too in the day, bad habit.
    I quit that for about three weeks ,but it was boring, un fulfilling, so I bought some more beers again.

    Soon my business will become HUGE!!!
    But soon ALL THE WORLD WILL BE MINE TOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    God Bless you!(I pray, amen) (got to go for now )


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