junk yard dog

[iron ant]

well this scrappin puppy aint talking about UGA football,we talking real scrap.It has been awhile sence I crused a yard looking for that gem waiting to be thrown in the back of the truck and taken home.The smell,the derilics,the metal,mud,and madness,I love it.

While on the hunt for materials for my april show,I discovered a massive scrap yard in the city hosting the show,that's when pea brain said,ah horses with objects obtained in your own city.I was impressed by the amount of metal and flow of people comming to this yard in Cartersville,GA.When I found they wanted buck n half a pound,my heritage kicked in.I used some creative b.s. skills to obtain the owners #,networked the musuem in on the process,and bingo I get a call today from the musuem director they are interested in talking with me ,and working with me to see what we can do for eachother.What is so funny I have hooked togther this new swank unreal musuem with this typical old style scap yard.Although they are totally different,high class veres low,we are really just the same....Ill be back.IA

[oddist]

My community dump metal pile is my primary material source.

There is also a local scrap metal dealer I frequent off and on to look for "possible" materials.

The possibilities are endless and I never know what will inspire or just attract me as is...I have a collection of iron and steel wheels between 4 and 24 inches in diameter, cast and forged hooks, various lengths of different size chain, and odds and ends of "I have no clue what it is and don't want to change it's."

I mourn for what is beyond my reach or I lose to the crusher.

[wasabi]

1.50 a pound??? Pure robbery!

[oddist]

Steel mills in the US are closing. Most scrap steel is going to China where they pay top dollar. China process it and ships it back.

Scrap yards are cashing in on high prices.

Can't do much about it other than becoming a scrap dealer yourself.

Buy low...sell high...it's the American way. :D

[iron ant]

Rumor has it the Chineese bought the mine at copper hill on the GA/TN line.Shipping dirt back to get heavy metals out in china,some folks think they will come back at us as bulletts one day,I like to think not.The mine was big years ago,poluted a huge area of this country,all the trees were dead for miles around it.The mine is near the Ocoee river,famous for whitw water rafting/olympic kayaking ect...IA