Wow, talk about walking down memory lane....My first load of scrap was over 20 years ago....At that time I knew nothing of scrap metal but my best friend's Dad was heavy into it. He dealt only with copper and aluminum items and he made big money even in those days. So my friend and I started messing with it. We started by getting a truck and we thought we would be smart and pick up all the steel that people left out for trash. We loaded that truck until the rear bumper was almost dragging the ground. We hit the scrap yard and unloaded and we got our check...A whooping $35....Little did we know that steel and tin was at 1/2 cent a pound back in those days....So we started messing with non-ferrous only ourselves...We would get all excited when we would get a load that brought us $100...Of course we would celebrate with beer and lots of it in those days (20 years ago $100 bought LOTS of beer lol) while his Dad was turning in loads of $10,000 or more. But we learned nonetheless that there was money to be made.
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