Have you ever received a request like this?

"free scrap removal ads" only work if the trip is worth it.. its part of the business, i always ask "what do you have" if i think its worth my trip i do it free, if not i let them know there will be a small fee.. when dealing with residential clients, 9 out of 10 times its not worth it.. Sometimes i think if no1 ever started with the "free removal" then these customers would not have gotten the idea in there head that there washer in the basement is like gold to a scrapper.. scrap guys are a dime a dozen, soo the customer knows eventually they will find some1 to take that appliance out of there basement for free.

I almost bit off more than I could chew when I agreed to haul an old furnace away from a rental house for free that had been left there by the new furnace installer.
The thing was very big and heavy but it took me about four hours to get it into small enough pieces to carry up and the heat exchanger was still almost more than I could get up the stairs and loaded onto my trailer. I should have told the landlady there would be a charge to do it but I like to stand by my word and had already said that I would do it free before seeing it and being a retired HVAC contractor figured "it can't be that bad". I probably made about thirty five cents an hour but I learned a good lesson and the landlady was happy. Maybe she'll call me sometime when she has something more lucrative to get rid of, hopefully an old HEAVY vehicle that some tenant abandons.