What do you do besides scrap metal?

is there any thing else

Drink beer:confused:

Scrapping for me is extra money.... My main job is for a company that sells wear parts for equipment... things like grader blades, bucket edges, bucket teeth, dozer blades, bucket teeth and street sweeper brooms. We also manufacture snow chains.... The manufacturing of chains is the main thing I do.... from chain building, we generate about 500 bucks a year in scrap but I don't get to keep it... goes back into work and buys us stuff like meat for the occasional bbq and stuff like that

I'm a housepainter by trade but I don't advertise. I do a few jobs a year now.....I still love painting, but just a few jobs a year satisfies me....scrapping is my passion now. I used to be an avid reader and now I can't concentrate on a book if I have something outside that needs tearing down ! Don't own a TV , but I do listen to talk radio while at my workbench.

I am currently in the military, very soon to be retired out( until then I am working on accounting degree....only need 6 or 7 more classes!). At that time I will be starting a 2 tiered business that includes repo/towing and recycling. I would like it to be a 4 tiered business...... but patience patience!

Originally Posted by Hypoman

I am currently in the military, very soon to be retired out( until then I am working on accounting degree....only need 6 or 7 more classes!). At that time I will be starting a 2 tiered business that includes repo/towing and recycling. I would like it to be a 4 tiered business...... but patience patience!

I just retired from the Navy and all I want to do is Scrap but its just a side gig for right now! I would love to be a repo man and own a roll back that sounds awesome!

I am running about 3 projects.

#1 computer recycling.

#2 I buy/fix cars/boats (I have a auto teck guy that makes all the repairs)

#3 buy whole sale an resell whole sale

I am planing on doing...

A small resale store for many of the items I do get.
A mobile mechanic *get more use out of the auto tech*
A mobile computer teck (I have a in-house on a small scale...would like to grow that out)

An a few other things I am not sure if I want to do it yet or not. But one thing I have learned is...Money sitting in the bank makes no money. So...I keep what I need to do what I am doing an I will reinvest into something else...My plan is to have more than one thing making money at any one time.

Originally Posted by easyrecycle

I am running about 3 projects.

#1 computer recycling.

#2 I buy/fix cars/boats (I have a auto teck guy that makes all the repairs)

#3 buy whole sale an resell whole sale

I am planing on doing...

A small resale store for many of the items I do get.
A mobile mechanic *get more use out of the auto tech*
A mobile computer teck (I have a in-house on a small scale...would like to grow that out)

An a few other things I am not sure if I want to do it yet or not. But one thing I have learned is...Money sitting in the bank makes no money. So...I keep what I need to do what I am doing an I will reinvest into something else...My plan is to have more than one thing making money at any one time.

Seems we have the same style eh? This tiered style of entrepreneurship makes sense doesn't it?

Originally Posted by Hypoman

Seems we have the same style eh? This tiered style of entrepreneurship makes sense doesn't it?

Well why not? If you set something up to cut your own cost...why not take that an grow it out into something that will make you more money in the long run?

Each new thing I have started business wise was started because I had a need an wanted to do it cheaper. Once I had it setup an working for my needs why not expand it an have it grow so its not only a cost savings but something that bring income to some point.

Originally Posted by easyrecycle

I am running about 3 projects.

#1 computer recycling.

#2 I buy/fix cars/boats (I have a auto teck guy that makes all the repairs)

#3 buy whole sale an resell whole sale

I am planing on doing...

A small resale store for many of the items I do get.
A mobile mechanic *get more use out of the auto tech*
A mobile computer teck (I have a in-house on a small scale...would like to grow that out)

An a few other things I am not sure if I want to do it yet or not. But one thing I have learned is...Money sitting in the bank makes no money. So...I keep what I need to do what I am doing an I will reinvest into something else...My plan is to have more than one thing making money at any one time.

I like your business/project line-up. And I agree with this: Money sitting in the bank makes no money. This is what my mom always tell me. Do not let your money sleep on the bank.

I work at Amcor Tobacco Packaging. We have four printing presses that take up an entire warehouse that run about 5,760,000 units in an eight hour shift. That's a lot of cigarettes (mostly for Japan) but we also do work for Wrigleys and Cadbury. We print Wrigleys whole line of gum and most of Cadbury's gum lines. I work as a maintenance tech so I get to fix a lot of stuff. We recycle everything at the plant (metal, paper, plastic, etc.) but I do keep all the non-ferrous stuff I come across. We have to pay to have the scrap metal dumpster taken off so I'm saving the company money! I also sell on ebay like a madman and fix stuff up (mowers, etc.) to sell on the side.

Painting contractor who used to have 3 crews going year round, now with the economy its just me and 3 guys. The great part is we do new construction and commercial so theres lots of scrap around. For years I watched it go into the dumpsters - finally got smart.

When the bottom fell out in ranch work round here, i started breaking horses for pay. I was doin alright for a while, then i started scrappin. I scrap FULL time. Occasionally, on my "days off" (Usually sunday) I go out to a buddies ranch and work with their horses. A month or 2 ago, i had no horses to break. Now, business is booming. Unfortunately for them i cant work during the week because im busy with scrappin!

So between scrappin' and breakin horses i dont really have much time for anything. But i love it that way.

I started a Pet Waste Removal company called Scoop Dogg last year after I got sick of working for a lumber yard. Before that I worked on computers on the side to make some extra cash , and I saved everything that I pulled. I had the idea a few years ago to start an Asset Recovery business. Basically go around to big businesses and buy their obsolete computers for little to nothing and tear them down for the recycling purposes, and any thing that could be refurbished quickly would be sold. So this is how I got into the electronics recycling, and we are making a full time job out of it.