Cashed out with Jack this morning, grossed $3160.00 for this past week anyhow Jack is stammering and muttering about the weight but still not showing any hesitation writing out he check. As he handed the check over I'm asking him if he's running short on money.
I have a strong dislike for a man who has to make a display of paying up when its time to square up.
Yesterday was and good and bad day, first out with the bad. That red pick up was loaded with household garbage, the gray car on top came from the same guy to whom I paid the money to. Now for the twist, a woman not living at the address where I picked up the gray sent her brother over claiming that I had her car and that she was going to have the police over to my yard - no big deal I have a signed receipt.
So I go over to see the woman to settle the score, I show her the receipt telling here that the cops would do squat, if she wished to pursue it legally it was a civil matter. In other words I was not about to leave myself open to being blackmailed. I'm told by another fellow that this car sat at Sean's for the past 2 years. Anyhow I anti up without further complaint she signs off the car, and my reputation is intact.
Paying twice for the same car is no big deal, the payment shows as expense and will be dealt with come tax time.
After dealing with her drive the load over to the reservation landfill to empty out that red pick up, while I'm there a guy pulls in with an offer of 5 pick ups and 2 cars which I purchased to get this new week underway. Then on the way home from Jacks this morning stopped into the Electrical contractors shop to settle up on a $50.00 matter thats been open on his books since last fall.
Angus the owner gave me a huge lot of metal conveyor sections with rollers, plus a huge lot electrical box's, a bin full of metal and a large transformer, so it goes to show it pays to pay your bills.
Something the scrap forum members would not be aware of unless they read a post from the GRF made over a year ago. I had purchased a large Quonset hut from a farmer who owned the vacant farm land where the building was located. Any how to the point, paid $500.00 for the building with an offer to clean up all the scrap laying about, which the farmer gladly threw into the deal.
Part of that scrap was a very large pile of copper wire, 3 large transformers which netted me $8000.00, sold the farm scrap to Jack where is as is and never had to lift a finger other than to deal with the copper wire and transformers. To load the transformers hired a farmer with a front end loader who charged me $50.00.
While dismantling the building thought one afternoon why not set fire to the grass and see if there's anymore copper hidden, well yes sir there certainly was the only problem is that my fire got into the building.
There goes my building up in smoke, the old 3 story farm house and a garage - also gone. The house in flames was most spectacular. Couple of days later after the ashes cooled went in and got the copper pipe and wiring from the ruins.
Lucky for me that the farmer wanted the home site cleared away, house and garage were not a liability to me.
This pretty much sums up my life, one screw up into another.
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