Uneducated (or just plain stupid) scrappers..

**cobre collector** · 05-05-2012, 07:24 AM

According to my math, BohemianLush was making the yard a much higher hourly rate than the crane guy at that particular time.

30lbs Insulated #2 = 41.70 at 1.39 per lb
20lbs yellow brass = 40.00 at 2.00 per lb
Cast Breakage = extra 50.00

He states this all happened in about a 10 minute time period.

10 minute total = $131.70
Hourly rate = $790.20
Crane guy = $100.00 hourly

**High Voltage Processing** · 05-05-2012, 07:39 AM

Originally Posted by cobre collector

According to my math, BohemianLush was making the yard a much higher hourly rate than the crane guy at that particular time.

30lbs Insulated #2 = 41.70 at 1.39 per lb
20lbs yellow brass = 40.00 at 2.00 per lb
Cast Breakage = extra 50.00

He states this all happened in about a 10 minute time period.

10 minute total = $131.70
Hourly rate = $790.20
Crane guy = $100.00 hourly

Wow that's looking at the big picture. We could take this a step farther and use a statistical study to determine what per cent age of material should not be in there and see just how much money we are losing. When I get a bale in I sample it to make sure it is the advertised recovery. Its amazing how easy it is to find dines and how hard it is to find dollars. I wish I had more employees who thought about how they could make me more money.

**devo** · 05-05-2012, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by High Voltage Processing

Wow that's looking at the big picture. We could take this a step farther and use a statistical study to determine what per cent age of material should not be in there and see just how much money we are losing. When I get a bale in I sample it to make sure it is the advertised recovery. Its amazing how easy it is to find dines and how hard it is to find dollars. I wish I had more employees who thought about how they could make me more money.

I was just about to say the same thing. Having an employee that is looking out for you and your business is worth more then all the money you have in that pile. Next time he does that, fire his a$$ and send him my way.

**mrvictor1** · 05-05-2012, 09:58 AM

I go to case in oakland ca. They have a magnet that sorts out non ferrous as it comes to the shred pile. It is a two man operation one one the magnet picking up metal then dropping it to the side of the pile then the worker on the ground picks the non ferrous out and the operator picks the metal back up and throws it on the pile. This way all of their shred gets sorted before it goes on the pile. The supervisor says they pull out thousands of pounds per day. The steel yard at cass takes in an avg of 500,000 lbs of ferrous per day. And by the way if you live in the bay area I would recommend going to cass they help you separate your metal and always give you way more #1 on your ticket I bring a lot of appliances and am getting an avg of about $280 per ton.