Would you drive 100 miles round trip......

[Jailer]

For this? Paid $100 for it all and it cost me about $25 in gas. The smaller buckets are 5 gallon buckets. Should smelt down to over 500 lbs for $125 total invested.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/Jailer/posting%20pics/Wheelweights.jpg

[man.electric]

I will drive round trip to double your money if you are interested and thats quite a haul for me! Thats a good score. I don't know of you MI folks have been getting the rain like I have, but I have about a half ton of recycled magnum shot waiting to get alloyed with some fresh plumbers lead at about then same weight. Every time I think about smelting the clouds come out.

[Bula]

great score.

[littlejack]

Yesssssssssssssssss.

[Jailer]

I will drive round trip to double your money if you are interested and thats quite a haul for me! Thats a good score. I don't know of you MI folks have been getting the rain like I have, but I have about a half ton of recycled magnum shot waiting to get alloyed with some fresh plumbers lead at about then same weight. Every time I think about smelting the clouds come out.

We got a lot of rain the last few weeks, but it finally let up for a few days. Just long enough to get the lawn mowed and get the farmers in the fields. But it looks like this weekend starts round two.


The best part about this score it how it came to be. I sold off my stash 1650 rounds of factory 45 ammo and used the money for this, 4k of once fired brass and 4k of primers. Already had 4 lbs of titegroup and 8lbs of 231 so that should hold me over for a while.

[Doby45]

I travel all the way from Atlanta to Nashville to get buckets of WWs. I happen to have a friend that her best friend owns the dealership there. Now of course I pay nothing for them, but I still have wheel time and gas invested.

[Fire_stick]

500 #'s of processed ww lead is worth about $600 + from what I have seen lately. I'd say you did good!

And also look at it this way, you can cast 17,500, 200 grain bullets. What a deal!

[Bill*]

$125 for at least 500 lbs? Would I drive 100 miles? I dunno....let me check ebay:veryconfu Holy Moses:shock: HECK YEAH Just kidding...Nice Haul

[bowfin]

Money wise, it makes sense.

Time wise, I don't have the time, but I sure wish I did.

[dk17hmr]

I wouldnt in my own truck....but I drive lots of miles weekly in a company truck :)

[GOPHER SLAYER]

Jailer, I don't mean to drop anymore rain on your ww parade but could it be that some of the ww in the far right bucket be made of zinc.

[plainsman456]

I think it would call for a road trip.
Not just for the lead but do other things also.
Good Buy

[Jailer]

Jailer, I don't mean to drop anymore rain on your ww parade but could it be that some of the ww in the far right bucket be made of zinc.

I'm sure there are some, they haven't been sorted yet. There doesn't seem to be too many Zinc around these parts yet at least from what I've scrounged. Some steel, a few Zinc but mostly lead.

[468]

Absolutely

[perimedik]

I drive 80 miles round trip to the range...
5 buckets at 100 pounds each,


yea, that'll work for me...

[white eagle]

For this? Paid $100 for it all and it cost me about $25 in gas. The smaller buckets are 5 gallon buckets. Should smelt down to over 500 lbs for $125 total invested.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/Jailer/posting%20pics/Wheelweights.jpg
hell yes !!![smilie=2:

[Jailer]

Jailer, I don't mean to drop anymore rain on your ww parade but could it be that some of the ww in the far right bucket be made of zinc.

Just sorted the bucket you were referring to. The pic of all the sorted stuff is below.

From left to right: Zinc, steel, trash, stick ons. Pretty typical results from this source.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/Jailer/posting%20pics/Sorted.jpg

[Cherokee]

Ya done good.

[Jailer]

Just got done sorting a second bucket. A little more steel, much less trash, a few more stick ons and 1 Zinc. :mrgreen:

[Fritz D]

From left to right: Zinc, steel, trash, stick ons. Pretty typical results from this source.
That pic looks almost exactly like what I found in two (of three pails) of w/w I just recently bought for $60 . . . after sorting them I netted 349lbs of clip-on w/w and 16lbs of stick-ons. One of the pails was almost totally free of junk, the other two contained about the same amount of "junk" as your pics.

[GOPHER SLAYER]

In California you are wasting your time opening your car door to pick up ww. You just know it's going to be zinc. Actually you can usually tell because zinc is a much brighter grey. I don't know when lead was outlawed out here but I do know it has been several years. Long enough for the lead to be preyy much used up.

[Hardcast416taylor]

I`d say you made a very good deal. If you`d kept driving up here by Flint I`d have bought half of the pails from you! Something nobody has mentioned yet is the re-sale of the non lead weights and the steel weight clips to a junk yard as scrap steel.Robert

[Jailer]

I'm saving the Zinc for a buddy to cast cannon balls with and the steel I'm saving for recycling. Probably will have to have a lot of clips and steel weights to amount to much but it beats throwing them away.

[fredj338]

Good haul, worth the trip. All stick-ons are not zinc/steel. I have an entire 5gal bucket of lead stickies. Great for LHP or mixing w/ harder alloy.

[fredj338]

In California you are wasting your time opening your car door to pick up ww. You just know it's going to be zinc. Actually you can usually tell because zinc is a much brighter grey. I don't know when lead was outlawed out here but I do know it has been several years. Long enough for the lead to be preyy much used up.

Jan a year ago. So most of what you find, if you can find any, is now zinc or steel. I have to berm mine now for my lead or get donations form friends in other state that still have access to lead ww.:mad:

[badbob454]

kalifornia guys don give up yet im still getting take off wheelweights from tire shops @ 50 % clip on ww and @ 1 % lead stick ons , recycle the rest but dont quit yet my cars still have lead on them and they will change them out when i buy new tires still... just doint pay too much . bring a 12 pack of beer or offer to buy a pizza @ lunchtime for a full bucket