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You sound very much like the manager of my local transfer station, not always the nicest to me, but he has my respect and he respects me.

"There are some people who are difficult and you have to...

My local yard is really just a transfer station. They just transfer customers scrap to a real scrapyard. As such their prices aren't top, but I put up with it because they are close and will take...

We had our city wide clean up day recently. Besides scrap I got a $400 bike that is like new, a nice Toro push mower that only needs a carb cleaning, a 37" Sharp LCD tv with remote to take the spot...

$95 a ton.

Called around and found $50, $80, $95, and $105. The $105 was an answering machine and furthest away, so went with what I could trust.

Been mostly out of the game for long while. ...

As has been stated, depends on your situation.

For me, no. I got a small yard in a suburb with a small truck. Shred steel is easy pickings when doing other tasks, so is basically free. I used...

I am not a fan of them either. I break them down, usually ending up taking some of the al heatsinks and other stuff off and then throwing them in with the low grade boards.

I would love to find this good mileage power band talked about for my 4.0 Ranger. I drive like a grandma and get pretty poor mileage IMO. About the same as a new full size truck with a V8, maybe...

I have driven a 2000 Ranger 4.0 since 2002. My best highway mileage has been 20-21 mpg. Normal city mileage is 14-15 mpg. This is normal summer driving with empty loads. My truck now has 200,000...

You are translating it wrong. $1/lb of brass got $5, so had 5 pounds of brass. $1.50/lb of CU#1 got $4.50, so had 3 pounds of CU#1.

Around me the al cans generally go for a few cents more than...

I may never have qualified as an average scrapper, maybe only a hobby scrapper. Couple of 4 figure payouts, but $50 was more the norm. With going from 9 cents to 2 cents a pound for shred steel,...

XenForo is one I would look into. I have never done any of the setting up a forum myself, but have been around for a couple start ups as just a user. The one forum that switched to XenForo seems to...

Ethics and legality are not the same.

The question is what would we not pick up for scrap. The question was not what would we not pick up to re-sell.

I won't pick up CRT's, freon things for the most part (local yard does take window...

....to buy and sell and make money on as a small business. Craigslist isn't for businesses. It is for individuals doing something, usually one time. If you owned an 1984 Buick and wanted a front...

Is there the option to just shut off the data usage on his current phone?

About three months ago I finally got a smartphone, Galaxy S5. It has the option to stop all data use. I am still too...

I found that a reciprocating saw (sawzall) with a looooonngg blade works wonders on removing the copper in these circumstances.

If that isn't an option, a wood chisel and hammer used in a way to...

Start saving your money and when you get your license and can drive to school show up in a classic muscle car bought from your scrap earnings. Or just a new truck that you can mention, "bought with...

Treat everyone like they are your customer or a future customer. Otherwise they will always only be a non-customer.

Lying liars that lie. If they take it a step further and lie and make me out to be a lying liar that lies then I get really pissed off.

When I was also a teenager:

"Now I know you are pretty smart, and that you are young, and happy, with a great very hot girlfriend, got a decent car, and I have three pieces of advice for you. ...

not my problem.

"Got to back up two steps to catch up to ourselves."

When I was 18 I worked with a 72 year old building concrete waterfalls. Often times we would get to a point in our work where we realized we...

There are old mushroom hunters.
There are brave mushroom hunters.
There are no old brave mushroom hunters.

A saying implying the importance of knowing what you are doing, that can also be...

Be on the look out for non-metal items too. Good long 2x4's. Trim boards. Shelf boards. How are the windows? Cedar shakes? Might want to run an ad selling stuff for the weekend directly from...

"asbestos"

Google asbestos and read everything you can about it, particularly where it can be in a house and how to deal with it.

Then don't do the job unless you are getting paid more than...