Thanks scrapman! I also forgot to add that I made some yard signs n put them up around my town.
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Thanks scrapman! I also forgot to add that I made some yard signs n put them up around my town.
Forgot to take pics of my uncles pool when I hauled it in, but you can check out my other thread I posted about the guy backing into my trailer at the yard!
Boy do I got some pics to show you guys!!! I just took in the biggest load I ever took and probably will today! I'll wait till I post up pics as I'm kind of going somewhere right now, but you I almost S*** my pants when the lady at the weigh scale wrote down my cash out amount! I also have other tales.
Didn't know you lived in PA... Im from Erie, but visit family in Butler from time to time. Cheers!
Well, I did more damage to my truck unfortunately. Broke leaf springs, mostly because the shocks were shot and I've been hounding my dad about replacing them, then after about a month or two of using the leaf springs as shocks they broke, guess leaf springs don't make good shock absorbers. Aswell I did some more damage to the plastic box on the truck, I really hate having a back end of plastic, I let a "girl" drive on a dirt trail up in the mountains and some how we went over a stick, it kicked up and impaled the side of the fender, dang plastic... If the fender was metal nothing would of happened except maybe a dent.
I still need to show you guys the loads I just made recently, and I still have more scrap waiting for me, so I need to get this truck fixed quick so I can go pick up the rest of the scrap!
Quick Ferrous Load I took in to get some extra spending cash.
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Picked up all this stuff in one day, I kept getting calls, I even got a 5 dollar tip on a mini fridge that was like 2 blocks away from one of my bigger pickups.
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This was my biggest load as of that time to take in, I got like 323 bucks, I would of got more if I tore apart the air conditioners.
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This was one heavy printer/copier!!
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Picking up my biggest load yet, and they still have more for me. About 7000 pounds of Office Cubicle divider walls. Listen to this, I took it to one of the local yards in the city, (The city is big enough that it has its own craigslist) and the yard was a big shot yard, much bigger then the general yard I deal with. Well they rejected my load due to the cardboard/styrofoam in the center of them, well I hauled them 40 miles and took them to my local yard, and alls my local yard did was take 300 pounds off the initial weight count. Original Count, 6860 Pounds, Cash out weight, 6560 Pounds of tin, at 0.10 a pound you do the math! :)
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This was a trophy, Never found one of these in a dryer before!
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After I cashed out I headed over to Tractor Supply and bought this baby as I've been needing one for a while, I love it! I got the contractor grade toolbox cause of scrapping.
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That office cubicle load was all shred too no non-ferrous what so ever! My truck currently stands crippled, it needs leaf springs, I bought shocks for it aswell that I will be putting on. It also needs a new light hookup for the truck, cause we completely rewired my trailer and now found out theres a problem with the truck trailer light hookup so now we need a new one.
My Recycling landed me a Full-Time job this summer working in an amusement park nearby, I will be working in their recycling plant. Can't beat that, and I still will scrap on the side as well. So I'll be making good money before I head off to school in the fall.
Headed back to the place where I got the big load and they had about half a trailer load of those walls again and asewll I got about 60 to 70 lcd monitors for free. However they did have computer towers that they wanted me to give money for. I had 45 bucks on me as I wasn't prepared for it, so I paid 2 bucks a piece for about 22 towers that had ram and hard drives missing. Oh well, I still made good money on the walls. Tried taking it to the other local yard up there, they wanted to give me light iron price which they had at 8 1/2 cents a pound, I had to respectfully decline even after the 40 mile journey back to my area and to my yard, Id make more money doing that for 10 cents per pound then for 8 1/2.
Funny, two of my co-workers grew up about 15 minutes from Sunbury, said there was a fierce football rivalry with the football team there. Definitely God's country out that way.
Good job on the scrap!
What town was it? Our biggest Rival is Selinsgrove, and then the 2nd most is Shamokin.
Picked up a load from a kid I know through him being my brothers friend, They had a bunch of stuff for me filled up my trailer. Made 116 bucks just by picking that load up and taking it to the yard.
Was just contacted about tearing down a trailer home. Going to look at it today or tomorrow to give them a quote.
Port Trevorton he says.Quote:
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We dont even play port trevorton lol, they don't even have a foot ball team. Unless they are part of selinsgrove school district whicxh I highly doubt they are.
Little update, that trailer I've been tearing down is going good, we have the whole interior ripped apart, waiting for the lady to get us our roll off dumpster so we can continue with the tear down. Pics will be coming, haven't been getting too too much lately, cause most of my road signs were either taken by the state or stolen or destroy by inconsiderate @$$ holes, I have like 1 left out of 8 I had up. Will be making more though. My job at the recycling plant for the theme park i work at is going good.
Time for some photos.
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Biggest pain in the @$$ load I ever had..
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I got a free shed out of it so far and I got 6 spare tires for my trailer :)
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When I had one down to that point, I used a chain saw and sawed thru the studs and with a chainsaw, pulled the walls down and dropped the roof onto the floor for easy cutting. Pulled it loose from the rafters and rolled it up and tied with string for easier loading.
**** Kochy, well done buddy.
All ya new folks wondering how to get started, an what not. Look at this guy's thread. Kochy came to us with all kinds of questions, did his research an BAM! He's out there breaking things on his truck, making good money, an having fun do it.
This is how you get started. Research, ask Questions, research some more, heed the answers giving put into action. You to can be as awesome as Kochy here.
Keep it up my friend, while the updates are far apart it's nice seeing you do well. An good on you with the amusement park. Their fun to visit an I bet fun to work at.
Sirscrapalot - Knew the force was strong with Kochy.
Nice work dude. Kochy I guess It just goes to show that us kids can get it done lol
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Originally Posted by Mechanic688
Good on Ya Kochy! Keep it up!!
I've used a quickie saw before to cut up the frames; you can do it with one blade if you take it easy. I guess you found that most of the wiring is in the ceiling. Don't forget the metal roof! I think when it was all said and done we scrapped single sides for around $400 I think. It's a lot of work and trash....but if you have the help and a way to get rid of the trash for free then go for it. We did demo work for the county for condemned properties, so we got a pay check too.
Roof is down, Pulled it down like a domino with my truck, I have the video, that I'll try to upload to Youtube, we're currently cutting up the roof at this point and soon we will be cutting up the frame.
kochy, you go man! keep on scrap n!
Mobile Home trailer is done, Got 6 20 foot I beams out of the deal to sell and split between me and my buddy. I sold my double axle trailer, I profited off of it, but I sold it to pay for my second semester of tuition, as I just started my first semester of college for Electromechanical Maintenance Technology. I'm going to do something that I have never done before in my scrapping life, I'm going to scrap this winter, the past two winters of me scrapping, I halted my operations and just waited till fall to do anything, but this winter I'm gonna have too because I'm gonna need the extra cash for food and "drinks". :P, I also got that shed set up to put stuff in it, aswell, I just gathered up a great portion of my e-waste and its all packaged up and ready to be shipped out. I will post pictures when I have time to upload them, but right now I have to head off to my Accident Prevention class, talk to you guys soon.
Been a long time since I posted. Haven't really been doing much scrapping. I'm gonna try to now since I'm on my winter break. My truck ran out of inspection and it needs a few things so I can really do nothing till I deal with that. So yeah I'm back.
I just put E waste ads back on craigslist. My truck is still out of inspection and I am no longer working at Lowes because the hours sucked and it was interfering with my school work. Working everyday after school 6pm to 10pm wasn't Ideal especially when you have a 45 min drive home. Anyways I just reposted ads for E waste and I'm gonna be doing it out of my Jetta. So I'm gonna be able to experience how some of you the small time scrappers use their cars for hauling, since I never experienced that before. I always had a pick up and trailer at my disposable as well as my dads Chevy Express work van, so I was kind of spoiled when I got started.
I'll update again soon.
Well ebay just really pissed me off. I sold 2 things in march. Equalled out to 277 dollars In sales. My invoice comes in at 83 bucks for march. now how in the hell is th a that reasonable. When did ebay start charging 30 percent... Jesus..
They don't?! Still ten percent for me. There are listing fees and special option fees and such of course but I never get hit with those. Are you sure it's not some Fedex shipping added in there? If you run that through Ebay that comes up later on your invoice after the items are delivered...Quote:
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Well even so I only had at most 30 to 40 in shipping. StI'll 50 bucks for 277. Is kind of steep.
Just printed off a load of flyers today, I printed like 6 or 7 out yesterday and I went and posted them around town. I got the microsoft suite through my school for free since I'm paying a **** load of money to go to school. I made up a professional looking flyer and I also was able to make a little 2 x 2 ad incase i want to enter an ad in the paper.
Time to start rolling.
Prices are tough right now kochy but we can clearly see in this thread that you have the drive to make it work. I hope you got through PA inspection and are getting back in the scrap game.
Best wishes from Lancaster, PA. (I used to head right through Sunbury on my way to Williamsport/Trout Run in my college days)
As someone who has $80,000 in student debt for a degree I'm not using - you're doing the right thing paying for school as you go and choosing Penn Tech for something useful instead of hitting PSU Main for something useless.
Soon I'll have a thread like yours of my own!
Exactly!!!!
Sorry for delayed response almost 8 months later.
As of right now I'm stockpiling, I'm not actively looking for scrap but I take it when offered.
Oh and I'm no longer stepside recycling, I graduated from my stepside, now I'm in a nicer Sierra that I'll only use to pull a trailer for scrap, that's it.
Your story of building your business is impressive, motivating, and a great learning experience for those willing to learn. I am impressed with your insights. I do not remember seeing this thread in the past, but will be looking for it in the future. Good luck.
**I apologize for some the photos being not viewable, I'm going to try and get on photobucket and solve that for you guys**
Well over a year later from my last update, I no longer look advertise for scrap metal, I do have a scrap pile building up from junk that I accumulate from messing with vehicles or stuff my buddy's accumulate. I'm out of school and have a full time job which is actually the end of the scrap metal recycling process. I work as a maintenance technician that melts down ductile iron such as rail road rails, brake calibers, axle shafts and just other general clean iron scraps. They melt it down and pour it into sand molds making all sorts of stuff out of iron, such as pump housing, turbo housings, vehicle parts such as manifolds, intakes, axle yokes, and all sorts of other stuff made out of cast iron.
I no longer have a 1/2 ton truck, upgrade to a 3/4 ton Duramax diesel last November cause I have jeeps that I like to build and take offroad and beat the crap out of.
All in all, I am grateful for being a part of this community, it has taught me a lot about recycling and has helped me obtain a job in the recycling industry.
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Good to see you around Kochy and hear things seem to be going well.
Now...let's not let another year go by without an update. haha!
I'll be invading PA at the start of Sept. Ya been warned.
Sirscrapalot - A good success story is always good tale. - Me, you, unknown.