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    Lawn Care Scrapping

    Typical day today riding around all day working, mowing grass.
    Found a tv behind shopping center I mow.
    Found a 5 inch long piece of copper pipe at a house laying by road.
    Picked up 29 alum cans all though out the day.
    Found a stainless steel fork in a ditch.
    Found some type of aluminum contraption that weighs a few pounds, must of fell off the back of a utility truck and ran over several times.
    Open the dumpster at a church I mow, got a grill grate and stainless steel tongs.
    At one shopping center I mow, around the back someone dumped a bunch of carpet and crap on the grass. I had to pick that chit up and throw in dumpster 20ft away,,(A holes) they did leave me 4 garden posts an a few tin cans.
    Found a microwave sitting on a curb for trash about 5 houses down from a house I mow.
    An that is it for today.



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    Not bad for bein' on the job!

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    One of the shopping centers I mow had a carnival with rides set up in the parking lot all last week.
    Now their long gone and today when I was mowing it I found something the carnies left behind.

    Its from like a pickup truck bed gas tank or diesel tank. We have one on back of a 1975 chevy, 200 gallon diesel tank for when we mow roadsides with the tractors.
    What I found is a hand pump for one of them tanks.

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    i do lawn sprinkler work with this guy servicing about 700 accounts... 99% suburban residential.... each season i get a decent amount of copper & brass scrap from pipes & valves that freeze and crack over the winter. sometimes get lucky and have to replace a double check valve, typically about 8 lbs of brass. most older types of sprinkler heads also have a 1/4 lb brass piece in them. and if i wanted to get overzealous, modern gear driven pop up sprinkler heads have a stainless steel coil inside...

    seeing so many households i also offer to buy / take money off of bills for whatever else they may have laying around.... lot of auto batteries, stoves, washers, dryers, wire, pipes, chainlink fence sections, etc.

    i start 5:30am too, so i drive by plenty of garbage on collection days as well!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Catfish Bob View Post
    Typical day today riding around all day working, mowing grass.
    Found a tv behind shopping center I mow.
    Found a 5 inch long piece of copper pipe at a house laying by road.
    Picked up 29 alum cans all though out the day.
    Found a stainless steel fork in a ditch.
    Found some type of aluminum contraption that weighs a few pounds, must of fell off the back of a utility truck and ran over several times.
    Open the dumpster at a church I mow, got a grill grate and stainless steel tongs.
    At one shopping center I mow, around the back someone dumped a bunch of carpet and crap on the grass. I had to pick that chit up and throw in dumpster 20ft away,,(A holes) they did leave me 4 garden posts an a few tin cans.
    Found a microwave sitting on a curb for trash about 5 houses down from a house I mow.
    An that is it for today.
    Oh,great ,that sounds a very hectic work for you on that day.

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