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    a red spring

    Reds scrapping adventures are coming soon ( in this thread )



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    Got $35.20 for fridays load . Light iron is at $160 a ton. Broke it all down and saved all the wire and motors for next week . Got a dyson from curbco I will part out . Also at the yard I buy from one of the guy started to save me glass turntables and had two for me . Gotta love free stuff

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    Your pics aren't working for me

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    I know pics are not happening

    But pics of loads delivering $35.20 is some thing we all know what it looks like .
    $40 $140 $400 are redundantly the same load after load .

    Hey keep on going , in time you'll have such a back log mess you'll be disowned by 94% of society , then add of visit or 2 from department of environmental safety ,
    then you know your successful

    Just for talk there paying well by me still
    GT short $297
    and others within spiting distance
    copper $2.48 for #2
    lead .58
    SS .60 thats high for SS
    Motors .24
    AL .51
    Batteries .30
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    Ive been busy so I havent been updating this thread but all is well and I graduated highschool june 21 . I scrap every friday morning . Scrap the ferrous and save non ferrous for during the week. I have also been selling on ebay and amazon alot all the other days.

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    Congrats on graduating. What are your future plans?

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    Sorry guys I have been busy . Im looking to go to school for welding

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    Been busy the last few days . cleaned up a lot of dirty brass and dirty aluminum I had yesterday. Also broke some motors I had earlier in the week. Have been selling a lot of products on ebay and amazon too. Then went out early this morning curb shopping , will post pictures later . Got scrap and some products for Ebay. On the way home it was still early in the morning and nobody was around so I stopped at the park to look for lost tennis balls from the days before. Filled up a plastic shopping bag lol. And some point during this time period I lost my folding knife.

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    I know i havent updated my thread but i have been doing good with my bussiness. Both Scrap and Resale. Have decided to pull out of amazon and focus on ebay. Anyways i was at my friends house today , and he shows me this big car trailer in the woods his neighboor has thats been there for 15+ Years . Anyway while we were standing there hes neighbors son came out. ( Hes several years older then us ). we ask if we can take it away for him. He says sure they have been wanting to get rid of it. ( He was Just worried about liability because his mom still lives in the house ) I said not a problem i have a waiver i will sign and give to him. So we got the job. My Friend and i both have generators and i got several angle grinders with cutting discs. ( May have to restock though) . Any way we will be doing it on the 7th . I promise i will post pictures from the site.

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    Is the trailer still useable? If so you would be foolish to cut it up! If your gonna go to school for welding I'd save it fix any problems with it and if nothing else sell it! I'd use the H3!! Out of it personally

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    Sounds like it's beat up if it's been there for 10 years. Cool job I would consider a torch depending on trailer size, discs are a waste of $. Maybe if you can throw a few spares on the trailer and pull it to the yard depending on distance and safeness. Good luck

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    Quote Originally Posted by gabrielservices View Post
    Is the trailer still useable? If so you would be foolish to cut it up! If your gonna go to school for welding I'd save it fix and problems with it and if nothing else sell it! I'd use the H3!! Out of it personaly
    No like devin said below . Me and my friend both think its to far gone . The frame may be rusted out. Torches are a no Go . i dont have one and my friend doesnt have one ethier . we also told our client we wouldnt be using them. I think we got it , i can work magic with cutting discs.

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    The job didnt start today . Will keep you guys informed

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    Update : Job still hasnt started but i have other things going on. I got a dumpster in my driveway and am cleaning out my garage . I get half of the garage as Ebay workshop. me and my dad are going to finish cleaning up and build shelves

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