About once a year I take a pickup load of metal to a scrap dealer near New Ringgold. For some reason when you live on a farm you accumulate piles of scrap metal. Yesterday’s load was “tin,” the catchall name for anything from potato chip cans to the wires used in political yard signs to rusty nails to metal fence posts.
Compared to prepared iron or copper or aluminum, tin is not very valuable. In the past I generally received about $15 to $20 for a load. Yesterday’s load netted me $52. Wow!
Unfortunately, it takes about that much to fill up the gas tank in the truck. I blame Trump for this for not doing enough to encourage alternative fuels.
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