I pick up wheel weights from a local small town tire store with volume business and average 150-225 pounds per month. I pay what the local scrap yard is paying that day for wheelweights ($.305/# today) and I supply 5 gallon plastic buckets as I have a barn full from oil, hydraulic oil and grease that we used in farming and construction and still use 20 or so a year. This is a new young owner and the previous owner kept his lead for himself.
I had been out of state for 5 weeks, so ran by today to pick up full buckets and purchase a trailer tire for the RV. I usually take a dozen donuts by when visiting and he supplies coffee. He had told me that there was a full 55 gallon steel drum full of WWs when he purchased the business and he had to borrow a fork truck large enough to load it to take to the scrap yard and it was 2100 # heaping full.
Today he said he found a drum about 1/3 full under some scrap rotors, drums, wheels ect and asked if I wanted them too. We got it on his little Hyster warehouse truck and loaded it. I weighed it and was 479 pounds net. I don't know the difference, but his wheelweights average about 2-4% steel and zinc and the rest is 70-30 COWW and Stick ons. He has some really large stick on WW for big truck wheels. Nice guys and a steady 1-200 # per month.
Anyone know the Texas contact numbers for LHA (lead hoarders anmomous .)-- I think I need to become a member.
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Originally Posted by USMC87
