how many of you guys recycle and what do you recycle.
i got the idea to ask from the gas price thread . i live right up the street from a trash dump and i have a hpx gator to haul the stuff with. but i was wondering what or if any do you guys save and scrap.i save aluminum cans aluminum/ copper #1 and #2/ brass /air conditioner and ice box coils. and as of today car batteries.
i just bought my amd 65 with some of my money from recycling. i plan on getting more guns as long as i can with the money. i see it as free guns. this round i think i'm gonna order me a case of .223 ammo. and maybe a carbine i'm thinkin of a .40 cal highpoint . i should have enough money if i get the brass and batteries too.with summer coming alot of people swap out thier a/c units and they junk the old ones so i get the coils and copper tubing . now i found a place that buys the batteires for anywhers from .5 cents a pound to 2.00 a battery . so today i went to the dump and got my son and his friend to load me up when i got home i could feel the hpx had a little load so i weighed the batteries with my son and i had 581lbs of batteries and one window unit not to mention my tool box with ropes and stuff that weighs over 50lbs.. i like going to the dump and getting them aluminum doors they are easy to disassemble and people throw them away buy the hand fulls. the glassa pop right out so you don't have to fight with gaskets. it's really nice when some guy throws away his bentup or old auminum car rims they weigh a ton when it comes to scrap aluminum.
The dumps around here have signs all over the place telling you it's against the law to take anything. And they're making you separate your loads more and more, so THEY can recycle: metal here, appliances there, electronic stuff in another place, tires in the far corner, etc.
But a few years ago, someone who dumped just before I got there had apparently disposed of a person's entire household of possessions (probably because they died; some old mail had a retirement community's address). I came home with a good BBQ and an antique, wrought-iron hose reel on wheels. People on either side of me grabbed furniture and dishes.
I only recycle sodie pop cans and save the M.T. 375 case's.
It's kind of fun selling what few sodie pop cans we generate at our house.
I average 6 to 10 dollars worth of cans when I sell them to the recycler, which is not that often.
I forgot I dispose of burnt motor oil at a recyle center, but I don't get money for that. A.H
P.S. Tommy you amaze me ! lol ! I believe you'll be around when were all long gone.
Man you got it together, you will survive.
P.S.S If you ain't careful yo front yard be look'in like JBS's
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Last edited by ArkansasHunter; 05-05-2007 at 11:58 AM.
I only recycle sodie pop cans and save the M.T. 375 case's.
It's kind of fun selling what few sodie pop cans we generate at our house.
I average 6 to 10 dollars worth of cans when I sell them to the recycler, which is not that often.
I forgot I dispose of burnt motor oil at a recyle center, but I don't get money for that. A.H
P.S. Tommy you amaze me ! lol ! I believe you'll be around when were all long gone.
Man you got it together, you will survive.
P.S.S If you ain't careful yo front yard be look'in like JBS's
i'll post a picture of my front yard if you won't call me a liar of where it came from. i save everything from the dump and when i say everything i mean it broken cement /old bricks/old plants /trees/logs/swings lawn furniture. ponds.. i'm gonna take some pictures and post them and show you what i can do with someone else garbage.lol
Go ahead on ! Careful now we might be'ah call'en you Fred Sanford after we sezz them pictures ! A.H
p.s. again You might be the next Sam Walton, you've got to be mak'in money doing all that. And it's tax free too !
The dumps around here have signs all over the place telling you it's against the law to take anything. And they're making you separate your loads more and more, so THEY can recycle: metal here, appliances there, electronic stuff in another place, tires in the far corner, etc.
But a few years ago, someone who dumped just before I got there had apparently disposed of a person's entire household of possessions (probably because they died; some old mail had a retirement community's address). I came home with a good BBQ and an antique, wrought-iron hose reel on wheels. People on either side of me grabbed furniture and dishes.
the dump has this sign on the front gate tha says something like "no tresspassing" it
it's a good thing i go around to the back and i can't read to good or i would be in trouble huh??
Last edited by tommy; 05-05-2007 at 02:16 PM.
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That was butiful, awsom Tommy, I'm impressed ! I noticed the little dogs too looking out the storm door. Are those Jack Russell's ?
The busted up bricks I've never seen before in flower beds, I liked that a lot.
WOW you done a nice job...I'm headed to the dump ! see yall later. A.H
I recycle wheel weights into cast bullets. Does that count?
But if you aren't real careful not to recycle the grit and stuff that's ground into them, it can be hard on a barrel.
How do you make sure the lead is clean before you pour it?
And Tommy, very nicely done. It all has a very comfortable, homey look to it. Makes me think that if I loosen up a little and get creative, I can probably do more with what I have, too.
But if you aren't real careful not to recycle the grit and stuff that's ground into them, it can be hard on a barrel.
How do you make sure the lead is clean before you pour it?
When the lead is melted and fluxed all the grit and impurities float to the top to be spooned off!
Rich
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When the lead is melted and fluxed all the grit and impurities float to the top to be spooned off!
Rich
But I've read several warnings over the years that wheel weights shouldn't be used, because it's hard to get all the impurities out. And some just say the lead from them is "too hard."
I've never used them myself, so I'm not talking from personal experience.
One advantage of wheel weights is that their alloyed composition is harder than the pure lead used in lead-acid batteries. with the exception of glued on wheel weights (which are often pure lead), the wheel weights with metal clips usually have about 5% antimony added to increase hardness--so-called "antimonious lead." This makes them more suitable for bullet casting. (Pure lead is too soft to use for bullet casting without adding a hardener, particularly for high velocity bullets, where soft lead can be "stripped" into rifling grooves,unless you are shooting a muzzleloader,which should be soft lead bullets.) Needless to say, be sure to take the standard safety precautions whenever casting lead. Goggles, gloves (preferably elbow length), a heavy long-sleeve shirt and apron are musts. Also remember that lead and arsenic poisoning are both progressive and insidious, so avoid breathing lead casting vapors! I recommend doing your lead casting outdoors. Even the steel clips float off when melted and it is easy to clean the molten lead, and it makes some mighty fine bullets ,not too hard and not too soft...
Rich
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i went today and got a full load of monkey grass that someone threw away. and i also picked up some copper trim that they threw away off of a roofing job.
about the wheel weights when we would melt the lead down to make the battery cable connetions for the boats in the ship yards we would watch all the crud come to the top when we melted it down. but i never knew they had a softer lead than the other.. another thing i scrap is the ice box coils from the inside of the freezer compartment they are all aluminum after katrina we had like hundreds of thm in the dump so i figured i would disasemble one to see what it was made of . well i took the plate off the inside and found out that there is a aluminum coil inside i also found out that if you take and cut open the a/c compressors you can get the copper wire out of them they have about 2 to 3 pounds of wire in each compressor sometimes more. i also found out that you can recycle the old computers and get the gold out of them from what i have been told you can get a oz of gold from about 10 computers . i know some of you are saying gold yes gold all the connections in a computer are 24k gold . companies throw away thier old computers all the time and i'm fixin to start scrapping them too. i just need to find a location to bring them but i think i'm gonna try and extract the gold myself then go sell it as unrefined gold.i'm a recycling freak if they buy it i'll get it out the dump.lol
Tommy, if there's an oz of gold in ten computers, I better get busy. We've pack-ratted away at least that many obsolete ones over the years, going all the way back to an Atari 800.
Disadvantage of having a big place; you tend to fill it with junk you're going to get rid of some day, from kid's toys to computers to old vehicles.
