Originally Posted by
sawmilleng
FL,
I always fell asleep in my university economics course...don't know how I passed it! It was one of those arts filler courses that they made engineering students take to become "well rounded". meh.
The dreaded econ elective! I took just enough econ courses to reach the conclusion that most of it was academic bull poo of the worst kind. After that, I remained safely ensconced in the math department.
The majority of the scrap will be ferrous, followed by copper, most likely. I don't know if these generating stations used much stainless steel in them, especially in the very old ones.
So now I'm going to have to learn about the ferrous metals market. Who knew the Scrap Metal Forum would have such a wide, steep learning curve?!
So you can kinda see what Partriot is up against: He has an objective of getting the plant torn down to just certain buildings left behind and gutted of equipment, probably with no extra money spent by his client company to achieve it. Or even a target of having XX$ left over after the scrapping work is over and everyone has been paid.
So he has to maximize his returns and minimize the work he has to get done with his own crew to realize this.
It isn't an easy job and he has to be a jack of all trades to pull it off. I've done it a few times with smaller plants and it can be a lot of stress-filled fun.
I tip my hat to him (and his boss, who spotted him on this forum!) and wish him all the success in the world.
I second that!
And I love it that this forum turned out to be the source of such a great opportunity. I had forgotten that amazing little detail. This place is a never-ending source of great stories. I've only been here a little while, and I've already witnessed the good guy getting his big break in business, scrappers discovering treasures in all sorts of unlikely places, and the record-breaking sale of the $900 keyboard. OK, I'm hooked.
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