My 8yr olds find from today

So we were driving home from the Annual VW car show about 15 mins from home, when the kids spot a skip bin and a pile of rubbish at a demolishion site near us, THEY ask me to stop!

(they didn't have to ask twice!!)



So we grabbed like 15kg of Romex style wire of these old wall sections that were on a burn pile, A star shapped NEON sign, complete with transformer etc..

(another reason to keep scrapping tools in ALL of your cars)

And my son yanks this from a box of papers and other crap!


1984 Nintendo 2 player boxing game!


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AWESOME I told him! I am a big game 'n' watch fan, so was impressed.
We got home, put in new batteries, and the kids played it non stop for the next hour!

The boy has a good eye I tell ya!

He's now planning to flip it for some more LEGO money :)

My wife thought it was awful when I took our six month old with me to the yard. You have to start them young. ;)

Lol nice find. My 2 year old son says "scrap metal" when it's something on a curb and "copper" when he's looking at my insulated wire bucket. He also enjoys the scrap yard because of the big trucks they use on the shred pile.

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Originally Posted by Midnight

My wife thought it was awful when I took our six month old with me to the yard. You have to start them young. ;)

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some of my earliest memories are markets, yard sales, and trash picking with my Dad! ....Good times :)

Its not what you do with your kids that counts. Its the fact you spend the time to do it with them.

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Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

Its not what you do with your kids that counts. Its the fact you spend the time to do it with them.

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So very true, and they remember things that you might not give a second thought too.

I was hooked from the first time I picked up the torch. I can't remember my first time on the jobsite. But I heard stories about it. I guess I showed up with my sister in tow and held her hand the whole time. Oh how cute. I don't remember it but I do recall my first memory of my dad cutting down a railroad bridge and I was hooked I think I went to the jobsite every day I could that summer. I might have been 8 or 9 at the time. So I can see why your kids get excited about it. Now my first time working in a scrap yard was a whole another experience. They had us cutting up all the stuff they pulled out of the shredder pile that needed torch cut. So there I am some young 14 year old kid running a torch working next to this huge machine eating up everything they feed it. I was scared as hell all you hear is this thing eating up scrap non stop all day. Then one day you hear a BOOOOOOM and you look up and its raining car hoods. I took off running for my life and everyone else just laughed like it was nothing. Apparently concussions from the shredder were a normal thing. Moral of the story in the scrap industry the either get better or worse. You never stay the same. That same yard manager that you run into when you go to he yard today could be in 20 years from that same kid you are raising right now. Start them early and they can grow up fast in this industry. Its all about how hungry they are for knowledge and work ethic. Everyone starts off small. We were all that kid at one point.