Originally Posted by
ChesterCopperpot
LOL "End Rant" =)
So your advice to me is:
1-be careful when selecting a truck
and
2-avoid all fords?
I've been looking for a truck for a year now. Any tips would be appreciated.
You get what you pay for.
If you go buy a cheap 1995 Ford, Chevy, Dodge or whatever make, you got to think,,, that is now a 20 year old truck that is going to have 20 year old truck problems.
Almost nothing worst than breaking down on the side of the road with a full load of junk. A terrible frustrating feeling especially when the tow truck shows up and tells you he can't help you out because all the junk you have piled up makes it too dangerous for him to tow you.
When you go cash in your metal take all that you can haul. Get every dime you can. Unless you live right across the street from the scrap yard. Don't waste your time taking in just your copper or just your aluminum cans. Unless you have so much of those that is all you can haul.
What are you doing with the glass from the TV's? The trash men here will not take them. I put them in a big black garbage bag and then put them in my trash tote. If they can't see it they'll take it. Bad thing is only one glass tube will fit in the normal Waste Management trash tote, even if from a small tv. The ones from bigger tv's won't fit at all. I don't mess with CRT's at all anymore.
Only way I'd take CRT's would be if I had my own personal dumpster to discard the tubes in.
Plus with copper being way down, a old CRT tv or computer screen will be lucky to net you one dollar in copper. All the work, stripping, tear down, discarding the tube, all for one dollar.
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