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    blood,sweat and tears

    I was thinking the other about how many times I've lost blood while scraping(too many to count). Right about that time something came on the tv that said blood sweat and tears. Then that got me thinking........ What's your greatest blood sweat and tears stories? Bonus if there all in the same story and or pics. I'll go first.



    Blood: the other day when I was thinking about how many times I'd lost blood, I went and sliced my hand and wrist open while stripping copper. Barely missing a major artery.

    Sweat:Loading 3 haphazardly loaded 6x10 trailer loads of scrap into 1 very well organized 6x10 load.

    Tears: selling an old 1976 GMC Bus to another scraper because I couldn't handle it. It was pretty much all alum. Except the frame and engine. I tried to get the copper rad out but couldn't with what I had. I did, however get the batterys, the copper A/C lines and the wiring harness.


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    Letting some new group "borrow" the name of my band for a "weekend gig"

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    Lets see,
    Blood: Shoving and Ice pick into my hand. ( I have a thread on that somewhere on here)
    Sweat: Having to move over 1500 pounds of fencing, and a huge rusted round pen over a 5 foot pile of scrap shipping crate wood in the 100+ heat. THAT was fun.
    Tears: Looking back on how much metal and electronics I've thrown away over the years. Including a gold top processor computer with 4 sticks of ram.
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    You forgot burns from torching. My whole right arm was a huge nasty swiss cheese looking burn at one time. Vitamin E on open wounds will do wonders. I was wasn't pissed about burning myself I was more mad that I missed three hours of work because of my stupidity.

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    Blood, probably between burns from running a torch, blood blisters, and cuts from jagged sheet metal, which reminds me I think I need a tetanus shot, Surely lost a few gallons of blood.

    Sweat, hand loading 5 tons of steel this week would be the tip of the iceberg.

    Tears, almost come every time the price of any scrap materials go down.
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    Blood....stepping through a hand truck while carrying an automatic transmission, one of the braces went under the skin and up my shin about four inches
    Sweat....cutting up a spiral freezer and toting everything out of a chicken plant by hand (sweat job, but very profitable, 13,000 lbs all stainless)
    Tears.....seeing my brother in law's plum crazy purple 72 Barracuda on top front of a crusher load after I just missed getting to the yard to buy it out


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