good find

[david bachelder]

I found about 600 lbs of pure lead in my fathers garage, and this is the second time around. Earlier in the year I found the first 600 pounds, now I found another big pile.

On top of that the neighbor across the street saw me packing the lead and asked If I do any reloading. I said yes then he asked me if I wanted any 45ACP brass. The next day he brought me 70 pounds used 45ACP brass. Range pickup, I'm guessing. Mixed stamp but all have large primer pockets, except for very few.

You never know what you're going to come across.

 

[Walkalong]

How big is that garage, or how messy, that you didn't find it all the first time.

 

[Jesse Heywood]

I can be in Trinity tonight and help relieve you of your problem!

 

[ironworkerwill]

or how messy, that you didn't find it all the first time.

This mess is a place!

 

[fguffey]

A cubic foot of lead weighs 707 pounds, the weight dictates the lead will be on the bottom.

F. Guffey

 

[david bachelder]

Messy? Long way from it. My dad was a hoarder, if there was one made he had two of them. Everything was very neatly arranged and labeled. The first lead stash was under his sinker molding equipment, pretty obvious. The second stash was under a few cardboard boxes sitting next to a metal shelf, well out of sight. I found it while I was cleaning out his garage for an Estate/ Garage Sale.

I'm pretty sure he knew where it was at one time, however Alzheimer's took care of that.

 

[ironworkerwill]

Now we have no way of knowing the conditions. I was just joshing y'all and I mean no ill.

 

[david bachelder]

ironworkerwill no offense taken.

Were good.

 

[Walkalong]

My dad was a hoarder,

I'm not that bad, but I am a scrounger, especially stuff I can make things from, and there will be a few things my kids will go through and wonder... What did dad keep this for?

 

[41 Mag]

I'm not that bad, but I am a scrounger, especially stuff I can make things from, and there will be a few things my kids will go through and wonder... What did dad keep this for?

I think this runs in our family as well. I know I have been through several relatives garages, and sheds and they looked just like ours. Little cans of mixed screws and bolts, and such, boxes of this that and the other that could be used if needed to fix a number of things around the house or farm.

Unfortunately for my heirs, I have half of that stuff, and my own collections to boot, which is I am sure how some of these folks were as well. There again, like me and my sisters were talking the other day, when you lived through the depression, or lived out in the country, money was short, and you learned to make due or reuse lots of things most folks today take for granted. I know those little bins and buckets of stuff have saved me plenty of time and money not having to make an hour trip just to go pick up some 1/4-20 bolts, a hinge, or a handfull of nails just to repair or finish up a project on the farm.

At least with my collection I am making a decent effort to keep the reloading stuff together, the fishing stuff together and everything in it's own areas. My bins of bolts and nails are in drawers on metal shelves so they can either keep them or dump them really easy. The scrap iron though, it might be a bit spread out here and there.....

 

[KansasSasquatch]

My grandpa ran his own auto salvage yard for decades, over 100 acres of old cars. It wasn't organized like some junk yards are these days, but he could tell you just about every part that was left on every car. It's in my blood to not throw out something that MIGHT be useful. Now if only I had been a little older when my dad took it over and before he got out of the business..... I might have scrounged thousands of pounds of wheel weights! DOH!!

But that's a real nice find. It would end up being 20k or more .45 bullets if if I were in your situation.

 

[ironworkerwill]

My Pappy had HUNDREDS of peanut butter jars full of all sorts of nuts, bolts,... of every size imaginable. Three 55gal drums of used horse shoes was found after his death that Grandma sold to pay some unsettled bills. Just his scrap iron was enough to get her by untill her benefits started. Pappy did cast Jigs but never reloaded.

I love to look at his old junk. His lack of organization makes it hard to sort through. He did always seem to know where everything was.

 

[Hardtarget]

Last year a guy I know "forgot" to call me when his work needed to gt rid of some lead. He gave it away three times...they just never came for it. So he and another guy gathered it up and took it to recycle...all 6000 pounds of it! :banghead:

He kills me...I live 1/4 mile from him! He could have yelled across the back yards!

So...I'm glad you found your lead hoard! You can cast lots of bullets with that!

Mark

 

[tallpaul]

Hardtarget- apparently you forgot to bring beer and touch base occasionally... or food or whatever...

 

[ironworkerwill]

6000lbs is a nice paycheck! It was close to a dolla per pound!