it's great to have connections!

Buy a Ryedale penny sorter - much less work. Do u save copper?
Here's is to hoping that you don't get 4 solid boxes of 2012 pennies.
Had that happen to me on my one and only order earlier this year.

I did four boxes a week by hand for about a year. It gets old. I'm still doing two boxes a week. No problems getting pennies.
What were some of the best wheats or errors you have pulled with respect to your penny habit?
I found a 1970s small date about a month ago. I have found clipped planchets, grease filled dies, lamination errors. I have found wheats in AU condition (mint luster). 1910,1911,..... Just about every year since 1909. Nothing really valuable.