Hello and thank you for the reply. Fort Nelson is about 6 hours away but Fort St. John is only 1.25 hours away and we go there every couple of weeks usually. I am going to haul a bunch of shred and some clean aluminium and copper in this week if the snow stops. I was supposed to go today but it's been snowing for over 24 hours and not supposed to stop until tomorrow. I am planning on selling any clean stuff and use the proceeds to pay for gas and more scrapping tools. I have started using our old minivan for work and can sit in there and tear stuff apart all night when I am on shift, then I can load up the van and the little trailer and take a load in when I am going anyhow. There are two yards next to each other in Fort St. John so I am going to call ahead of time and see what the prices are so I know what I am taking to where.
The other thing I am thinking about is offereing "soap for scrap". My wife makes really nice, handmade soap and I am thinking of buying loaves of soap from her and trading it for scrap as there is seemingly nobody scrapping here, judging from the metal pile at the dump. That way there is no money changing hands but it is an incentive as everyone in town loves her soap and she rarely makes it because she works fulltime and can't get to the farmer's market to sell it. This way she could sell her soap once and people could pick it up from me.
Luckily we have a huge space to store things up in and don't have to sell if it doesn't make sense to. I see some people that run out of space and have to sell at a low price to make room for more scrap. I hope that will end up helping me out in the long run.
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