Originally Posted by
Dbone
Just brought my 2nd batch of lights home and today I found out there will be a total of 450 of these things. 18, 000 lbs in total of copper, aluminum and steel. I have my work cut out for me.
You got some money coming your way! Congrats! Have you checked local yards for prices and such on your first load?
If you have, for example, 3 yards within some distance youre willing to drive from you, it might be a neat experiment to take 30 lights, disassemble them each/equally and take each load of 10 to each yard and see which you get the most at. Then take the remaining to whatever that yard is. You can factor driving distance and such in to if you want to get real technical.
For example there has been times where Ive taken stuff to one yard where they pay better for 1/2 of the stuff I am bringing, but worse for the other half.... so now after a while I have figured out which of the 2 around me pay better for which things and sort my loads accordingly!
You may find out one yard pays $0.25/lb for cast alum and $1.60 for #2 copper, and the other yard pays $1.80 for #2 copper but only $0.19/lb for cast alum. It may make sense to split your loads then to maximize profit!
Of course, if you only have one yard close by.... you can throw all this out the window
Just an idea! Good luck! report back please with how it goes!
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