You might be a scrapper if:

Patriot, those are SO true!! (#22^^)



Its a thin line between being a nutsy-boltsy handyman farmer and a scrapper who loves machinery!!

It brings up another You might be a scrapper if....

....you separate and keep all the "good farmer stuff" from the scrap before you take the "real" scrap to the yard!!

I've got a terminal case of this!

I'll cut out all straight pieces of iron and mark the size on it with a paint marker before I put it on my racks. Pipe fittings, brass or otherwise, get taken apart and saved. Motors get checked. Electrical parts get stripped down and sorted into cans. I don't keep many bolts and nuts--only if they are in decent shape and larger than about 1/2" diameter. (I'm a sucker for the pretty gold coloured grade 8 bolts. I can get them pretty cheap.) Socket head cap screws are saved. Hydraulics bits are babied. I have an old van filled to the nuts with hydraulics--its so heavy that the springs have long ago given up!

Jon.