Weirdest thing you've found in bucket of WW or scrap lead?

[jonk]

For me it was a glass cinnamon jar filled with dried out minnows. Second prize goes to about 4 sinkers on a string (I didn't melt them, they went in my tackle box).

How about you all?

[redgum]

A 2 dollar coin & half a 7/16" spanner

[randyrat]

2 rolls of 95-5 solder, a bar of 50-50 and a couple blocks of pure lead. I think they tried to pull the wool over my eyes by hidding this stuff. I bought the bucket as scrap lead for .25/lb they sure seen me comming and i keep comming back
for more.

[jswaff]

8 lbs. of 95 / 5. They didn't know what they had!

[targetshootr]

Razor blades, one of them I found the hard way.

[Calamity Jake]

WW removal tool, don't know what they are called, the plier type.
Now I visit WWourld parking lot on a regular basis!!! :shock: :-o

[DLCTEX]

+1 on razor blade the hard way. DALE

[Cloudpeak]

I found these while "mining lead" in our pistol ranges dirt berm. I do not want to shoot the handgun these came out of!!!:-D

Cloudpeak
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[selmerfan]

I would venture to guess that they are 12 or 10 gauge shotgun slugs. :)
Selmerfan

[kooz]

3 Master locks all hooked together with the keys.

[pumpguy]

A 1 1/8" socket. Lots of razor blades; so far none of them the hard way!

[montana_charlie]

A (still) living snake, with it's lower body trapped by scrap lead tossed into a 55 gallon drum, at the scrap yard.
The reptile had also recently swallowed a mouse (or something). Too injured to survive release, I killed it.
CM

[targetshootr]

I like finding those big shotgun slugs on the berm. Someone is nice enough to shoot lots of them at our range.

[Tom W.]

A broken 9/16 deep well socket....so far...

[Bass Ackward]

1960s: Stubby plastic milk bottle w/ nipple for an infant. I can understand that.
Timex watch that worked. OK

1970s: Appeared to be a good pair of glasses. I returned them.
Half a box of shotgun primers rudely discovered during fluxing. I got even later.

1980s: Section of false teeth. This was a warning of things to come.
Found a Trojan with what appeared to be a human tooth in it. Don't ask!
Too weird as both of these were from the same location, so I avoided further pick-up from these .... gentlemen.

1990s: A game boy. It worked.

2000s: Normal stuff so far.

[Typecaster]

Razor blades, 95-5, a couple sockets. BA is w-a-a-a-a-y ahead in the condiment section—I've only gotten the Trojan wrappers. Maybe somebody thought they were wrapped in lead foil....

Richard

[wonderwolf]

broken craftsmen wrenches that turned themselves into non broken wrenches the next trip to the sears store. A super ball which is still sitting on my desk. And a good size handful of ball bearings. :Fire:

[Down South]

Dang, All I've found so far is a dozen or so new valve stems plus the usual trash. I just add them to my tire fixin box.

[azrednek]

Best find was a beat up buffalo nickle, dated about 38 or 39 I think. A dead mouse, numerous tire valve stems, lizards and black widows. Fortunately I haven't found any black widows the hard way.

[rigmarol]

A nice flashlight, assorted open end wrenches, pens, Burgers, chewing baccy (blech). A small transistor radio (worked but not very well). Hose clamps, two screwdrivers some loose change.

[Ricochet]

Those big slugs look something like Paradox bullets. I'm guessing 8 bore.

[eli]

A live .32 in '05 and some razor-blades this week. Also some brackets for electrical conduits, complete with screws and bits of wood attached.

Cheers

[EMC45]

The usual- stems, chew, cig butts.

[Cloudpeak]

Those big slugs look something like Paradox bullets. I'm guessing 8 bore.

They were just over 1" in diameter. Hard to measure due to deformation.

Cloudpeak

[Ricochet]

More like 4 bore, then.

[cohutt]

a "Woody" from Toy Story happy meal action figure
an outdoor faucet with the label from the hardware store still on it
a butter-knife

[wonderwolf]

Yeah thats what I was thinking....a lil small for a off the shelf slug :Fire:

[KYCaster]

At one national franchise store I used to deal with, it wasn't unusual to find parts of their balancing machine in the scrap WW. Also the WW pliars and full boxes of new WW and valve stems. They must have had a disgrunteled employee.

At another location of the same franchise I got two full buckets with about two inches of WW on top of a bucket full of lug nuts...I complained loudly about that one.

At a scrap dealer I got eight buckets they had gotten that morning. Every one of them had a brake rotor in the bottom of the bucket.

I won't just load their containers on my truck, I dump it on the ground, remove the garbage and shovel it back into the buckets. It's a bit of work that way, but I don't pay for garbage and water. And I don't hurt my back trying to pick up a full bucket.

Jerry

P.S. Speaking of hurting my back...a friend said he had some lead he wanted to trade for boolits. I went to his house to pick it up, we said our hellos and how-are-yous then got down to the business at hand. I opened the tailgate on my truck, got out my little two wheel cart and when I turned around he was coming around the corner of his house carying a bucket clasped to his chest with both arms. He set it on the tailgate and I could hardly believe it!!!! It was a five gallon bucket completely full of ingots cast in a cornbread muffin pan.

I weighed it when I got back to the shop...just shy of three hundred pounds!!! He picked it up off the ground and carried it thirty yards or so from his back yard. It hurt my back just watching that.

[encoreman]

Beware all, I found a hypodermic syringe with needle intact. I always wear gloves when sorting thru the garbage in the ww's now with something other than my hand. Mac

[bruce drake]

Just how big is your friend? Sheesh!

[Bigjohn]

Wheelweights! :-D

John.

[KYCaster]

Just how big is your friend? Sheesh!


Bruce, he's about 5'9" and 180 lbs. or so.

He used to go to the SOF in Vegas every year to compete in the pugil stick competition...won his weight class several times. Sometimes I think he's been whacked in the head too many times.

His oldest son is currently on his second tour in Iraq. A chip off the old block. He's one of the warriors who'll bring the other 99 home.

Thanks for your service. Come home safe and soon.

Jerry

[The Dove]

A Hustler magazine and an empty bag of cheeto's!

NO, I'm not kidding.

The Dove

[leadhead]

I found 4 or 5 live .22 shells. That sure would have made for a bad day
if I had thrown those into a hot melt.
Denny

[Hang Fire]

My Stylus Streamlight LED light I lost last year. Gotta love them batteries, was bright as ever when I turned it on.