It is also the intent to share some insights into some of the things I have learned the hard way. If anyone has any suggestions or short cuts I would appreciate your ideas. First the business relationship you develop with the scrap yard can make or break a scrapper. There are many perks the average person does not get. One such perk is reducing the amount of time a scrapper spends at the scrap yard.
The first picture is the entrance to my closest yard. There are three excavators in use in the yard most of the time. They have one with a magnet, one with a claw, and one with a shear. It is set up as a loop. When they are loading out trucks, most people have to wait their turn. I have been pushed in and unloaded and allowed to back up my 40ft. trailer passing the waiting line twice.
Since I have earned a reputation for clean loads, sometimes I do not even go into the yard. Instead I am unloaded by a forth excavator right at the pile ready for shipment by rail. This location is outside the yard so it saves a lot of time. The next picture shows being unloaded at the rail car loading station. If my load was not clean, they would have to haul it 100 yrds. to be sorted with the rest of the steel. This is a big perk in my mind.
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