Given the market, why are the newest scrappers even bothering?

**IamPhil** · 10-11-2015, 08:18 PM

Well for me.. I'm addicted to school buses.. Can't stop buying em. Just like coke.. Big yellow bags of high grade columbian bam bam. (If your blow is yellow please talk to your dealer) I'm bidding far less than I used to.. and the scrap is secondary. Engine is the money maker. I'll keep stacking them out back till my wife says otherwise. I could be a millionaire and still want to cut stuff up. It's fun and therapeutic.
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**matador** · 10-11-2015, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by IamPhil

the scrap is secondary. Engine is the money maker

More than scrap value is always a winning combination. Out here, a Cat 3208 or a Cummins 5.9 would be an easy sell.

There is a vehicle scrapper in the area that uses old buses to haul scrap in. He pulls the stuff he wants (Mostly engine/trans), loads the rolling chassis with shred, and tows them to the yard. At the yard, he sometimes pulls the tires and sells them to farmers for their beet trucks.

**NihilObstat** · 10-12-2015, 10:14 AM

I'm fairly new to scrapping. I began roughly two years ago focusing almost exclusively on E-waste. For me it is both an interesting hobby, as well as a means of making some money on the side. I work in IT so getting access to junk computers and electronics was easy, and my department was more than happy to have me clear out their ever lessening storage space. I imagine most members on this forum have other income streams besides scrapping, but that's just my guess. Cheers!

**Mechanic688** · 01-24-2016, 12:53 AM

Originally Posted by matador

More than scrap value is always a winning combination. Out here, a Cat 3208 or a Cummins 5.9 would be an easy sell.

There is a vehicle scrapper in the area that uses old buses to haul scrap in. He pulls the stuff he wants (Mostly engine/trans), loads the rolling chassis with shred, and tows them to the yard. At the yard, he sometimes pulls the tires and sells them to farmers for their beet trucks.

I can still remember way back I spent a couple of years down in South East Kansas. At one time the only job I could find was working with a custom baling crew. The owner would buy school buses, strip the body, hang a small hydraulic elevator on the front, Pull all the seats but the driver's and it was ready to stack hay bales on. Drop the elevator and pick up the bales automatically, all the guys had to do was keep up stacking. Straight from the field to the barn. Reverse the elevator and shoot the bales right into the hay loft.