How many tons?

Just miscellaneous nuts, bolts, screws, etc. I could easily throw 50 pounds on the pile.

I've been raiding our lake's Bone Yard of parts off junk boats. My collection of parts has literally doubled with odds and ends from the 60's, 70's and 80's. Feel like Mike from American pickers when I go down there!

count me in for, 4, 5 gallon buckets

My boss/future grandfather in-law is a hoarder. He makes us keep more scrap metal than I could ever imagine keeping. It doesn't totally count because it's not mine, but I find it humorous.

I would say to realistically, no exaggeration put him down for two 30-yard dumpster of garbage metal alone.

The jars of nuts and bolts made laugh because way back at my parents house my dad had a big work bench in the basement and above the bench he had glass peanut butter jars filled with just about every nut, bolt, screw, cotter pin you could ever imagine. These jars were cleverly hanging from the ceiling as the lids were screwed into the floor joists, when you needed something you just unscrewed the jar.

When my brother and I were about 10 or so dad set up a shooting range in the basement so we could target practice with our bb guns. The workbench was behind us and every once in a while we'd get a ricoche bb back at us and smash a jar,(or occassioanlly hit one of us) the contents would crash to the floor and we'd pick it all up and mix it all into one box of stuff. This went on until we took out about 90% of the jars and Dad figured out what was going on.

30 years later as dad was moving from the big house to a new condo I was helping clean out the garage. When I got home I found he had stuffed a couple of boxes of misc nuts, bolts, cotter pins, etc into the trunk of my car. What a great laugh we had about that, funny thing is I still have some of it and it's still in a mangled mess that I sort through once in a while because I know what I need is in there somewhere.

When I was going through the list of what I was going to put on the pegboard pull outs I made for my shop cabinets, fastener storage was on the list. I ended up buying 72 of theses jars on ebay. With that quantity, I should be able to keep everything separate and not end up with mixes! Of course organizing them into something that's easy to locate different items may be a different story!! Larger fasteners will still go into the divided drawers of my old workbench.

My granddad also left me a can of bent nails and the jars of hardware that I've been going through myself since I was a little kid. He got in the habbit of picking things up around airplanes way back in the Navy so it's quite a mix.

tons = # of CCFans X 100 X 1.5/ 2000

The 1.5 is because engine parts are heavy.