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elements are called cad rods 20 cent lb here
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Anything new to add to the bucket list?
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126 buckets! or so...
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My buckets and reusable grocery bags and cat litter containers:
#1 CU
#2 CU
Bare Brite
Copper content
Yellow brass
red brass
irony brass
Zinc
CU transformers (small ones, the large ones I take apart if possible)
Comm wire (low grade wire)
Contractor wire
#2 insulated wire
Stainless
Gold ends
Ram
CPU's
LARGE plastic storage container holds MB's, other boards until sort time
Garbage cans, dog food bags and coolers hold:
AL cans
Old sheet
Extrusion/MLC/6061
Cast AL
Electric motors (low and high grade)
Right now I'm working mostly out of the basement so i have lined all buckets in a row under the stairs/work tables and hung bags and small buckets off the wood framing as well using coat hangers lol.
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Don't forget the "throw it all in there and sort it later" bucket. Most of us have one. And the ones that say they don't are lying. Lol.
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Mine was a garbage can or sometimes 2. That was a pain to go through when I let it build up that farOriginally Posted by Mike1286
Currently looking for a job in or related to scrap/recycling. Relocation is possible for the right offer.
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I have two gaylords of just this that have been sitting at the top of a rack for over two years. I don't even remember at all what got tossed in there...only that it was a mix of everything that was lying around when I was cleaning up one day. I do remember a few months after my wife getting into one and just cutting wires got about 100 lbs out of it.
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Thats half of my garage!
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bump for more buckets!
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Appliance boards https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scra...ol-boards.html
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I recently added ac adapter bucket to my storage rack. Yard "B" buys them whole
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With the plastic case on them? I had a yard that would buy them that way for copper content price which was the same price as cracking open the plastic and selling the transformers as. But now no longer, I have to break them out of the plastic shell or they go into the shred...
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have you discovered the cool stuff in laptop chargers?
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Yes with the plastic case. I dont know what they pay for them tho, i saw one of there box's that had ac adapters painted on it. So i figured i would just save them up because my main yard buys them as shred and then i could save some time from smashing off the plastic
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Bump for more buckets!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Better than the dump!
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Figured I would bump this up as it is a interesting read with many great ideas.
I'm a container person as I like sorting things.
I use many banana and apple boxes for my collections as they stack well. The cheaper plastic totes won't handle much weight when you try and stack them, and the better totes are not worth the price they ask for them.
I really like the cat litter pails and use them for many things as they are easier to walk with then a round pail and they stack nicely as long as they don't have much weight in them. The folding lids are nice also.
I have a couple I filled with pennies, but they are so heavy that I quit using them for that.
Problem I have these days is that I have so much stuff that it's a full time job and I like working part time.
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oops i posted on wrong post
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Stainless Breakage Bucket. Dont think it was mentioned.
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Still getting my operation organized. Have some of the many listed. Plastic coffee cans, totes, garbage cans. Love them Tidy Turd buckets with the hinged lid. CurbCo provides.
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I seem to have gone from buckets to boxes this year. Been doing ewaste for awhile now so that was pretty well organized. Got into copper and brass this year and it was a bit of trial and error to see what worked best.
Eggs are delivered to the grocery store in 12"x12"x12" boxes. Those boxes are pretty sturdy hand hold 50 lbs of #2 copper.
Plastic shopping bags are delivered to the grocery store in 12" x 12" x 6" cardboard boxes. They are just the right size to hold 50 lbs of bare bright or brass.
Everything stacks neatly in a small corner of the shop and it can sit there without getting in the way till prices go up a bit more here in Maine. There's about a dollar a pound difference between here and out of state so i thought i would sit on it for awhile.
The margin on brass hasn't been that wide, and the price has been fairly stable, so i dropped off 350lbs at the scrapyard a few months ago. It was a super easy process with seven boxes at 50 lbs each to unload at the small scale. In and out of the yard with check in hand in under 15 minutes. It's a good day when there are no hassles for me and no hassles for the guys at the yard. Everyone is happy and things go smoothly.
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