I guess scrapping doesn't always go as planned.

I have been trying to get to town and sell my meager scrap pile for two weeks so I can use the funds to buy many tools that will make scrapping much easier. Mainly I need a vise, some small screwdrivers to open up a laptop and some security torx so I can open up these satellite receivers I have so many of. I was supposed to go in today but when I woke up there was a pretty good snowstorm happening and probably 5 inches of snow on the ground. It's a very windy, hilly 1.5 hour trip to the scrapyard and on April 15 the winter shift was over for the highways so they were down to one plow/sander. I decided that I could wait until it got warm except tomorrow night I start on night shift again and they are 12 hour shifts so I will need to sleep some during the day tomorrow and a trip to town wouldn't be prudent.

So I will fill the van up with stuff I have that I can scrap now, and that is safe to breathe. I have a bunch of radiators from a/c units to process but I want to limit the dust from cutting, grinding while cooped up in a vehicle. I have a few tvs and a really old microwave I could do, as well as some other e scrap I could break down. I have to work until Sunday for sure and can maybe get into town on Monday if no jobs come up but by then I will have more than the van is capable of carrying so I might have to leave some shred at home.

I have lots of room for storage but I hate having these piles of shred that aren't worth the space to haul them to town. The van can take about 1200 lbs payload and I'm sure I have that much shred now. I have the option to take it to the dump for free but that seems like an even bigger waste. Maybe take 200 lbs of copper and aluminum and 1000 lbs of shred so the trip makes more than $50?

What about you folks? Does everything go the way you expect? Do you try to keep stuff cleared out or just keep piling stuff up?