So, I'm runnin outta room...time to clean up. Loaded up the truck yesterday with all my buckets and drums and containers and head to the yard. So my yard has 3 scales: a small one for loads under 100 lbs and alum cans, a loading dock scale (for semi trailers and such) and the yard scale, for shred, large loads of iron, etc.
Here was my dilemma: most of my buckets were WELL under 100 pounds, except my insulated copper and low grade boards. Plus, the small scale doesn't take low grade boards, they have to be weigh at the loading dock. I pull up by the dock and patiently wait for the forklift driver to finish with the truck next to me. He then asks me what I have, and I tell him...he says "ok, I'll get some barrels and pallets" So 3 55 gal drums of boards later, 1 drum of ins wire, and 2 pallets later my load is making its way up the dock. Next thing I know theres 5 guys standing around my pallets, picking through buckets, and looking a bit confused. One by one they weigh my little buckets and piles (by now I feel real stupid as their taking turns between my small buckets and forklifts weighing pallets of baled copper) and eventually I get my ticket and load up my buckets into my truck. They seemed annoyed about my small amounts, and I had even told the fork lift driver who helped me that I was ok using the small scale for most of my stuff but he had told me not to worry. Maybe it was just me.
What I made:
16 lbs painted 6063 extrusion: 10.40 @ .65
14lbs old sheet alum: 7.63 @ .53
28 lbs old cast alum: 13.72 @ .49
16 lbs alum breakage: 3.20 @ .20
23 lbs alum/copper rads: 34.04 @ 1.48
2 lbs alum rads: 1.22@ .51
17 lbs yellow brass: 34.34@ 2.02
35 lbs #2 copper: 102.20 @ 2.92
174 lbs #2 ins: 231.42@ 1.33
17 lbs figure 8 wire: 7.31 @ .43
73 lbs auto batteries: 22.63@ .31
6 lbs zinc die cast: 1.02@ .16
12 lb 18/8 ss: 6.48@ .54
66 lbs elec motors: 13.20@ .20
174 lbs low grade board: 26.10@ .15
Total: $514.91
Now, what I found interesting, was the motors, die cast, and a few other things got mixed together in one large container. I asked him why weigh it different if it gets mixed the same and he told me it goes through the shredder, then gets separated. Ok...anyone clarify this?
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