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    Cool This weeks load looking pretty decent thanks to dumpster diving

    Hows everybody doing this wednesday afternoon? Hope nobody worked too hard and were halfway to the weekend! As of wednesday, 6/27/2018 my load is looking pretty good thanks to my usual week of door jobs, dumpster finds, and coming across a pile of cast iron sewage piping on a job site that was trash, me and a buddy loaded about a third of the total pile over the weekend.

    Dont worry this wont be a weekly update kinda gig haha. Just want to share the thrill!

    Monday, found a microwave up in md harry homeowner threw in the dumpster that i stripped down, just found another microwave and a 2' copper pipe in another dumpster before we took down an 8'/7' garage door today. Had even more good luck hitting a ryan homes set of dumpsters after work. 2 garage door motors. 4 6' angle iron, and 6 sets of garage door springs to go along with the 4 sets ive been taking down this week. As well as a gallon bag of #2 wire to go in the bucket w door motor wire, microwave strippings, and jobsite wire trimmings that i pick up along the way. This is what im currently hauling and still have tomorrow to look forward to before i cash in!

    A quick question, bit of a noob question, the microwaves contain circuitboards for the keypad. Ive seen alot of talk of e-scraping. Havent been familier with it but if i can make more scraping those from gd components and the microwaves im all for it.

    Currently selling light steel and tin for $6.5 a hundred.

    A breakdown:
    8'7' garage door sections, uninsulated, usually pays around $11
    2 gd motors, usually make $3.2 a nonstripped gd motor at my yard of choice
    5 gal bucket of #2 com wire
    many upon many cast iron sewage pipes.
    10 sets of both torsion and extension springs
    about 4 lbs of misc. aluminum parts from doors and microwaves.
    4 6' angle iron
    2 stripped microwaves
    2 microwave transformers, trying to sell as motors
    2 microwave magnatrons, gonna try for motors as well
    4 misc. small electric motors
    2' #1 copper pipe
    Wayne dalton torquemaster shaft
    1 large random chunk of iron, almost looks like i-beam
    2 brass cupplings from copper pipe
    Misc. door parts

    Shooting for atleast a $75 come up, splitting atleast $20 w the buddy for his help. Trying to get him into the scrap game and figured $20 for 20 minutes of loading is a great start. Rent and babysitter want theirs for the end of the month so i need this. Truck wants its gas as well lol. As a part time scraper who does this when im in the area or have down time. Im more than happy with this weeks results and just wanted to share.

    Having some issues with byte size on my photos so i cant upload any pictures until i figure this out.



    thanks for reading, and hope everybodys making good money this week!
    Last edited by Doorman; 06-28-2018 at 06:23 PM. Reason: Price update

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    The board in the microwave is a lowgrade board. i would just leave it in there. Could pull the transformer thats on the board if you want.

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    Appreciate it! Not too familier w e-scraping but im digging in on some of the threads to learn

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    Talking

    Took the load in today, just under 900 lbs in steel! Price of motors dropped so im making less but ill be alright. I'll update my motor price above. Almost $90 on top of what i made this week. Sold a pair of headlights $5 i found in a dumpster as well to a buddy so he can make some off the headlight guy. $92 come up on top of what i made this week. Buddy gets $20 for his part in helping w the #1 steel. Truck got $40. Full tank and i can taste the july 4th brews now! Repeat the process next week. Money in the trash is money on my plate! Thanks for reading! Im using google drive to share pictures. If there is a simple way of doing this on iphone i havent figured out yet please let me know! The pictures seem to be too many bytes to directly upload

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...Av40qUlMzVFxVc

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