Piece Of Junk!

Quick breeze through Sunday. Checked out the little Pakistani/Indian place on Knoxville for lunch. Great place, little spicy.


My buddy Jeremy found out that I was making a run to the junk yard this week and offered up a rusty old water heater to add to the pile. Stopping by to pick it up Monday night I thought his wife, Erica, asked "do you want to sit down for dinner?" I said "no thanks, I'm good". Turns out what she said was "sit down, we have dinner for you" and I was escorted to my seat. Not only does Erica feed you well, but she'll have a halfway decent idea and girl picked for a future triple date on the spot. Thank you Erica! A better planner/encourager I've yet to find.
Several weeks ago, I got a healthy kick in the jaw when I saw the squalor a guy I know was living in. He saves everything and collects anything he can find that he might be able to use later to make money. His rental unit would take a month to organize and clean even working most of the day on it. No joke. So when I got home, I promised to rid the house of all the junk I'm holding on to. There's actually alot, and it started with the big stuff - scrap metal.

Jonny loaned out the Heavy Half and contributed some of his own junk to the cause. The major players here are two water heaters and a bath tub. Several years ago, my parents took a water heater to Behr Scrap yards in Peoria and got somewhere between $50-$70 for it I think (kinda guessing). Today's rate is now $70 per ton. This load weighed 540lbs. and brought in a whopping $18. The scrap yard is like a huge man playground though. Definitely can't wait to go back (forgot to take my old garage door opener...sweet!!).



You enter though the front gate, stopping to weigh in your vehicle (full). Then they send you through the maze of sorted scrap piles stretching over a several square mile property. At the end of the maze, you'll find an unsorted dumping ground where you then get to finally answer that burning question...how far can you throw a water heater?




This was supposed to be prep for taking care of the school's oldest boiler which was replaced last week. My boss had no desire to take it apart (that changed today) so he said if I can scrap it, I can keep it. Well, we went at it today and found that it's a blast to dismantle, but even the huge tank sections separated weight between 200-300lbs, and neither of us is looking forward to loading even one of them into a truck. So we're looking into other options.