Getting a conatiner delivered to a site...have some questions?

I will be getting a conatiner delivered tomorrow to a site for a job. It's a good sized job for me. Parting out and scrapping a food manufacturing plant.
Alot of food grade-stainless machinery/equipment, ferrous, wires, etc.

I'm only getting one conatiner and putting everything into it, then the yard will sort it out. I'll break down all the machinery for the motors, wire, etc.



Is there anything I should know about this process that the scrap yard didn't or doesn't want to tell me? What should I do as far as the sorting process is concerned in regards to the scrap yard end of it?

What is the yard going to charge you to sort it out? I tried this once a long time ago and the yard ACCIDENTLY dumped the whole load into the shred pile. Wasn't a good day!

Ooh man....As far as I know, my only fee will be the container for $100. I figure I'll put all the non-ferrous stuff on one side and the shred on the other, make it a little faster for the magnet to sort out. I'll defiantely follow the container to the yard and supervise the sorting/weighing. I just feel like I'm overlooking, or not privy to to something for it to be this straight foward.

I would be willing to bet there is gonna be a hauling fee also...the container alone would be the 100...if its multiple items you will be charged a sorting fee and they will do that when they are ready so be prepared for that.

The sccrap yard rep just sent me an email with the pricelist: I'll get: .09/lb-light iron/mixed steel, .60/lb clean stainless, and .30/lb for mixed stainless. Over the phone he was talking .10/lb for the iron and .70/lb for the stainless. I'll send him a reply about that though.

DANG! Big haul, congrats!

Thanks man, I'm probably about 75% finished with the steel, I'll have to split the take with the owners, but I still thought it's more than fair. Maybe I'll take out 5% or so for expenses-gas, sawzall blades, grinding wheels, labor, etc.

Wow! Thanks for the pics, thats one great haul you have there!

Very nice !! It's going to be a nice payday !

Very nice haul..I agree with only putting Ferrous in the box, handle the "high grade" yourself so that way there are no mistakes or sob stories. I am speaking from experience here. Maybe work those transformers over a bit..that is a nice grip of copper, seems like time well spent. Most of us are spending more time driving around and looking than harvesting these days, get every$$ outta what is "in the hole" before letting a yard make the cash. (what am I saying..I am a yard??!!) my spirit is still in the field...

Area is right. Can you rent a uhaul trailer for a day? about 35 dollars.

Excellent haul! Looks like Christmas came a couple of weeks early for you.

you can get P/U trailers here for $150 more or less. HF tow lights for $20(on sale) and you are good to go. Look for 70's Ford Truck trailers with 1/2 9" differentials..they can take lots of abuse. 3/4 ton trailers are usually a bit more and not up for sale that often. Money very well spent if you can spare it..

Thanks for the encouragement guys! I'm doing some thinking about only putting ferrous in the container. Most of the stainless is small enough to put in the van, so I could do that for sure. But the pictures you see with the big refridgeration unit and the hoist of stainless is literally too big/heavy to fit in a truck. I can cut out 80% of the stainless on the hoist but what do I do with the refridgeration unit?

THe guy that owns the plant said he scrapped an identical unit a few weeks ago and they wound up giving him $1500. Will I do much better cutting out all the aluminum/copper radiator? Another thing the sales rep made clear was the stainless had to be REAL clean to get 60-70/lb otherwise its getting half of that. The casing on that unit is stainless but with steel framing, I don't have the time to strip that whole unit as the plant needs this gone asap.

If anyone on this site is located in the NY area that deals with units like these please let me know as I would definately consider dealing with said person than risk getting screwed by the yard.

Also the prices they quoted me were for the pound. Shouldn't I get a little better on the steel at least by the ton?

Absolutey agree with injunjoe/Area67, separate yourself. I have bins dropped off weekly at my warehouse and only put ferrous in the bin. I then have one of my guys load the box truck up with the non-ferrous separately to the yard themselves. Worth it in the end.