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Jordan Richner 2y ago

Public Service Announcement for all the homesteaders.

Get to know your local scrap yard. It's a great place to find materials for all your projects.

Also, it's a good place to come up with some additional income. Always keep an eye out for scrap metal. Have a designated place on your homestead to collect and sort it, and when you have enough gathered up, take it to the scrap yard, exchange it for cash.

If you own some rural land, there's likely an old dump site somewhere. Clean it up, sort the metal, and generate some cash.

If the dump area is on your neighbor's property, go talk to them, they'll probably let you scrap it for them. You get the money for the metal, they get their property cleaned up, win win.

I made at least $2000 last year just clearing junk out of some old barns and cleaning up scrap metal around the farm.

#grownostr #homesteading #paralleleconomy #hustle

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Dark Sky Homestead and Herbs 2y ago

We love our local scrap yard! So many treasures!

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Matthieu 2y ago

Used to work at one for a few years. Can confirm that money can be made and you can find allllll kinds of strange things there.

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Jordan Richner 2y ago

What's the strangest thing someone brought in when you worked there?

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Matthieu 2y ago

Smaller stuff was a lot of stuff people would try to slide by to get their weight up, like still full fire extinguishers. Random containers of like 2/3s phone charging cable wires and 1/3 old porn magazines, a used fry pan and clothes hangers. And unfortunately for me, I had to sort out all the wires 😂

Had a few try and argue for some plastics or whether or not something was a certain kind of metal.

Lots of gnarly grills.

A lot of uh… less than legally acquired copper.

Bigger stuff was processing retired school buses, factory roof a/c units, really nasty cars.

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Jordan Richner 2y ago

There was apparently a guy around here who would get old freezers, fill them with rocks, and padlock the door shut. They just refused to buy from him the next time he brought in a load.

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Matthieu 2y ago

No way 😂

Never had it happen to me, but I heard of people sticking a hose in a junk car they were gonna scrap and absolutely soaking the inside and then filling gas tank etc for weigh.

Freezers with rocks is crazy though 😂

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Jed 2y ago

No mongers in my area let you “pick” because they’re scared of liability. 😔

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Jordan Richner 2y ago

That takes away half the fun.

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Stacking Functions 2y ago

Ha I actually took a small scrap load today. Always feels good to purge the junk and get paid to do it!

Also anyone in a city- when you’re on a walk bring a bucket and a claw picker and you’ll eventually fill trash bags with aluminium cans (I do live in a dirty area though so ymmv)