Quote Originally Posted by JOE68 View Post
Very new to the scrapping world and wondered if one should try and specialize right away, or stick with "general" scrapping for the first couple years in order to get a broad knowledge base?
From reading numerous posts, different cities, different places, different countries all have a uniqueness to them.
My mind tells me to stay broad at first, and then narrow it down to a niche, but then it also says that if one stays "general' then there is more potential to not get into a niche which bottoms out.
Opinions, advice, comments would be welcome.
Thanks in advance
If you start out in the scrap business already specialized in something than you probably don't even need to bother asking this. I think the majority of us here just take what ever we can get. some seem to find a way to get more or less of what they want or don't want but the majority of the time your just taking what you can get. with that being said you will find yourself leaning in a certain direction and building a so called style. but always be open to change. no matter how hard I try to specialize in something the scrap world always has me doing random stuff with everything. With that being said I do seem to haul more steel like cars and household appliances than anything but I'm always finding myself in different situations. I'm sure that is true for 90% of the people on here. unless of course your just sitting in a shop buying computers at auction to strip apart. but even that i'm sure has its specialties.