1 day in the trenches yields 119

[SOHIO]

Friday evening I was on my way out to a set of woods to check the wild leeks/ramps to see if they were ready to start digging yet and along the way in I found where someone dumped some stuff since I was last through there in the fall. My son and me went back the next day. The dump was about 1000 ft or so from the road which made it interesting to get out not to mention it was down over a hill. There was a freezer, very old refrigerator, hot water tank, some aluminum windows, couple sweepers with cords, car parts, etc. It was too muddy to drive my truck back there so we flipped stuff all the way out, drug and carried. Last picture is truck reloaded and organized and ready to sell. Payoff was $119 for about 4 hours work.

 

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[Emperor Findus Cladius]

Nice find. Nothing better than free money from junk people discarding.

 

[clovis97]

That little bit in your truck yielded $119?

I am missing out! Too bad my local yard doesn't buy steel scrap. It is a 30 mile one way drive to a steel yard.

No wonder the steel scrapers are driving the trash routes as if it were an Olympic sport.

 

[SEANO]

Great job on the clean-up and the reward for it!

 

[DemonWolfe]

119 for that, man where are you at, around here last I knew steel was still only 120 a ton, that was about a month and a half ago. Steel down south in texas at that time was about 200 a ton, Kansas is always behind on everything. I was in a wreck about a month ago, so when I can walk again, I'll be back out hunting that scarp once again!

 

[Darshevo]

Congrats on the find. And thank you. I can't believe how many places I have lost access to in the last 10 years from people dumping garbage. Anytime I leave a campsite I always take my trash as well as anything that was there in the hopes it won't be blocked off by a cable or gate next time I go there

 

[davest]

you did the good thing and made some cash too. I salute you for both.

I was thinking about the old places I used to go to back when I was a kid, there were old automobiles in those fields in the 50s
and the fields are still there along with the trash piles. One of these days I'm gonna do a treasure hunt back in time.

 

[KyFreeBird]

 

[allen]

$30 an hour isnt bad and you did a good deed to !

 

[DemonWolfe]

it is really sad what the adverage person in this world throws away, but then if you get caught taking someones junk from say... a trash pit down by the river that has been there for as long as you can remember they bitch at you and want to know what the hell your doing! I mean seriously, cleaning up some junk on a side of a hill thats what i'm doing, if you cared about it or wanted it it wouldnt be out here now would it so leave me alone and let me clean up your shit!!