Large loads........

Originally Posted by Semo Scrapper

That's exactly the kind of stuff I've been hauling. The yard I go to pays 190 a ton on any vechicle up to a 2 ton truck. Anything 2 ton or bigger plus haybine's and combines and such are 165 a ton. My yard does the same on big truck or tractor tires 100lb dock each.

Wow you're getting shafted hard over there! On your big loads it would ALMOST be worth hauling them east a little.....

Originally Posted by Focker

Blue that was a great find.What did the combine wiegh and what did u get per ton.Then you can figure what you would have got per ton if you cut the unit up into short iron and hauled it in.That would be how much more you could have made.Yeah the old trucks tat weight is about right.



I missed a buy last week my uncle had a buddy selling a old tandem flat bed for $1200 but he told me days later after the guy selling it had scrapped it.Said he drove it across the scales and got 1400+ out of it but he only got like 195 per ton and i can get 265 so i would have made around 500+ lol oh well cant get them all.

I have been busy this week repoing and getting junk cars have to at the shop and 2 more to pick up this week.

Combine was 8900#, sheet at the yard where we had to take it whole is 235/ton and there shearing is 275/ton, this yard is also 1/2 hr away. The yard here in town (much closer to where the combine is) pays 240 for sheet and 280 for shearing but they don't take the whole thing whole. Again its just not worth the hassle and the mess and the extra labor and costs to us. It wouldn't have been but just under $200 more if we cut it up. But then instead of having 4 hours in the combine, we'd have a good solid day in it, plus torch oxygen and acetylene refills ($70) plus renting a skid steer to load the pieces ($165) plus fuel to go get the skidsteer and haul it out ($20, but that much would be saved taking it to the yard in town instead of to the one half hr away). Then you could save the $80 we paid to have it hauled because I'd be able to haul the pieces on my trailer, but in two loads. Then, we wouldn't be able to take the tires in, so we lose the weight of the wheels and then have some huge tires to get rid of...

So I think it comes out about the same money or close enough, and with much less hassle this way

Originally Posted by Bigblue12v

So I think it comes out about the same money or close enough, and with much less hassle this way

I do agree with you. I had to haul that 2.5 ton about 2 hours back to the house and then spend another day to get it cut. Sometimes you come out way ahead with accepting the lower price.