I want to expand, approaching a bank for a loan.

You're right, it is a red flag, the same one the bank wondered. They asked me if I could afford to hire a full timer. They want to see me with an employee FIRST before expanding in equipment. Their reasoning, and something I agree on is that I am one person and can only operate one thing at a time. Additional equipment would be underutilized and thus...a waste of money for me and a waste of investment for them. This year I plan to change that. I still get steady wire streams in excess of 4,000 lbs a month...this won't change. My regular pickups constantly throw out a variety of wire and I produce even more on stripping down power supplies.



Instead of all this, I think the best course of action is to store my shred on the property until value comes up high enough in two years (three if I have to wait that long) to use it on a major equipment purchase. In the meantime I can focus on my wholesale and refurbishing efforts. Should a granulator come up used I just cant pass up, I will buy it. I've done my research and will be using the wet shaker table process versus cyclone fans. Much less power consumption and better than 99.5% recovery on stranded telecom wire, which those who have granulators tell me is material not worth running because of how hard it is to recover not the actual percentage.