nice! Man i wish i had that many car batteries lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by rca987
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nice! Man i wish i had that many car batteries lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by rca987
P.s your getting 6$ a battery? if so thats low my yard give me $11 per battery... ( 61x11=$671 )Quote:
Originally Posted by jerseyscrapper
Holy smokes, I guess I have a bad eye for spotting car batteries.
$450... Bought a bunch of ac compressors for cheap and cut them open with a grinder. Each one had a 40lbs plus electric motor inside and a little copper tubing. Load was somewhere around 1500lbs. The pics of the load are on my business facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/twofatguyswithatruck
I tried to cut the enameled copper out of the motors, but after the first one took me over 2 hours, I called it quits on that idea. I had 25 compressors to go through. Probably would've taken me a week for an extra 60-70 bucks.
I'll beat this eventually.
$3800 and change..... Paid $42 for the material, loaded and hauled in just that easy.... well kinda easy LOL Loaded 9,775 lbs in 191 lb increments. Had 2 helpers makes it easier lol
crap big blue you made out like a bandit
Hello, everyone. I am a new member here, just joined today.
I have 33 cast iron radiators that I am removing from a commercial building. I took 4 in yesterday, and got about $370. My total ticket was $570 with some other misc. stuff. Copper, brass, electric motors, steel, etc. I thought that was OK. About 3100 pounds worth of radiators, alone. I have 4 more on the trailer right now, and should be able to get 1 or 2 more loads in on Monday. In addition to the radiators, I have the steam boiler with 17 cast iron sections and a bunch of cast iron pipe to take out. It sure is interesting moving these radiators that weigh about 790 pounds by myself!
Some of the radiators are fancy ones, and I hate to scrap them, but I don't know of an outlet to sell them. Any ideas? I have thought about craigslist and ebay, any more ideas?
kevlars
Howdy fellow scrappers. Just took a load in today consisting of aluminum, copper, motors, batteries, radiators and a few other micellaneous specialty metals and got $704.01. Most we've made in one run and still have more that needs to be taken in. That was all we were able to throw together last night. Got a job of tearing down some sheds for someone this evening and he's paying us $325 to do it. So I'd say that's not a bad day! Can't wait till this weather cooperates with us so we can get more money rolling in. The rain really puts a damper on things, haha.
Cut the top off with a angle grinder & cut off disc.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFatMan
Cut the wires inside that run from the motor to the outside of the can.
Pull the motor out & unscrew anything you can see.
Get the anglegrinder again & cut thru the copper wires where they emerge out of the top of the motor.
They will come off in bundles of 1/2 loops, with string holding them together, just to annoy you.
Now make a bonfire & chuck the motor on it so it burns off all of the varnish & insulation.
Now let it cool down & pick the long motor windings out.
Done.
First, with the varnish & crap there, it holds the copper wires together & makes cutting easyer, its also work hardened copper wire at the moment.
Second, after burning the varnish off, theres a lot less to hold the wires inside the motor & now the wires are 'annealed' & soft & it makes it easy to pick them out.
I did this last week & thought.
"Hell, nobody else does this, I can make some real $$$ outta the copper (3Kg? copper wire) & then sell the iron as its heavy"
The only down point was the oil... It ran everywhere around the shed. Congealed all of the dirt into oily gritty mud.
Wow, some serious bucks being made by some of you. I made $285 on my third run ever and that's before learning things on this forum. I know it could've been more now.
heres something to shoot at, 2009. heaviest load. cottondale fl, to emfinger in Dothan AL. 50 miles. 14,400 LB #1 prepaired steel. truck and car frames. @ .11 cents a pound. pulled it with my 1090 3/4 ton Dodge and a 30 ft wench trailer.
Biggest pay day $4000 + 70 catolytic converters to panhandle converters in Dothan. Sadly those days are over for me, too old to hack it any more.
You are right ! had casncer and am just getting back after 3 years, lost all my equipment and contacts, but Im coming back one computer at a time if thats what it takes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kris Kringle
Agreed on that one even aluminum breakage usually pays .30 to .40. But dont feel bad i was getting ripped everytime before i found this site.
Im not a pro myself but your doing like i used to. You should seperate that metal on front to back on your trailer. Take anything over a quarter inch thick and cut it into two foot sections. Then everything else sitck at the front as light scrap. Youll make a lot more. The Aluminum def. needs to be sorted through better as well.
Just trying to help. Good accumulation though.
When I was working for my uncle I got a call from someone I had talked to several times to pull some of his junk cars out of his yard in Mesquite, TX. Well he passed away, and he had my card on his desk. His son called me and said I could have them all, no charge just get the out of the yard in 48 hours. 5 mid 80's suburbans, 5 caprices, and 10 other older chevys. I can't remember the total, but I think it was somewhere in the range of 3500 after I took several to the crusher, and the rest to the parts yard. That's the kind of stuff that makes me want to stick with it.
scrap metalscrap metalscrap metalscrap metal i need to get myself some business cards and hope somthin simular to that happens! lol
162 dollars for 2 hours of work!
YOU could do like I just did; go to Wally World and over in the office section buy a pack of Avery do it yourself business cards, go to the Avery website and download a logo or whatever then put your info on them and print them. I printed mine front and back. Costs me 3.67 per 100. This got me started cheap. hope this helps you without breaking your budget.Quote:
i need to get myself some business cards
+1 on that...cheap and easy and you can change the wording to fit your needs as you find out what works best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mechanic688
most for me is a little under 500 with a load of steel and copper.
If vendor count....little over $50,000.
Todays pick up....950lb stainless steel refrigiration unit....Hauled 10 miles for a payday of $300 Sure I could have made more by breaking down etc by why get gready plus breaking down that greasy rest. equipment is not what I want to be doing all day...LOL
This weeks load was $9570.03
Only 4500 lbs of scrap!
dont remember the number exactly but it was 600+ alum wheels we had took off our cars, all profit as the cars were already scrapped.
EDIT just in case my post is confusing thats $600 not 600 wheels i wish it was tho :)
How did I miss this thread. I am not going to say how much I have made from taking in stuff or anything like that but I have more of a question. Is it wrong for me to say I am not rolling out of bed for less then a 1000 dollars a day? I get out of bed five times a week every week. I never like to discuss money and bragging just makes you sound like a d-bag. Some people have had some great scores though on this forum. Keep up the excellent work. Hard work always pays off.
my partner done pretty good a few weeks ago we bought this at a price to scrap loose coil wire all was wrong he has been driving it ever since. not money but a good score
http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/...s/Photo138.jpg
I need to find one of them deals for my daughter. Dang thats a nice truck. Ugly Arse hubcaps but a dang nice truck.
f250 had a factory tool box built on the outside of the bed, pretty neat
Had a friend who was a super at a plant that was closing. He was responsible for getting all the machinery shipped out and disposing of what was left over as he saw fit. He asked me my advice on scrapping and I said "let's do it!" 300lbs of copper piping, 700lbs of mostly insulated #2 and BX cable and the heavier stuff stripped down to about 400lbs stripped of #1 bare bright, a lot of it 600v wiring. One load to the yard involved the piping and all the insulated which yielded about $1200. The payload in the minivan was close to a half a ton (I call it my truck with a permanent cap). The total proceeds from the job was around $3000 which was split 50/50.
I had 7900 lbs. of steel on a trailer. tires were bout maxed out. somewhere around 250 per ton. = around $1000
Our load of escrap we sold in Ohio for about $2200. It was a very good feeling after a few months of saving.
Da*n she musta been strong.Quote:
pulled it with my 1090 3/4 ton Dodge and a 30 ft wench trailer.
about 400 from my suburban neighbors dumpster.....
I ferried everything from the dumpster to my parents driveway, then i drove the shred to the yard for $200 then sorted out the goodies and drove that in for another $200... although im still sitting on the 700ft of SS conduit pipe he gave me :D
I made $520 today after gas and buying expenses
I'm not sure I could give an actual answer to this question. My scrap yard drops an 80 yard dumpster on our property and we fill it from our junk removal runs. It gets emptied every week in the summer months, maybe once per month this winter. (This is in our Michigan location.)
I am nowhere near so busy in Florida yet.
Made $131 in about an hour today cleaning up a lady's backyard....Drove it 5 miles to local yard.....
In the yard made 80000 when the crusher came
We made 700 off a 60 by 40 pole barn
One flatbed load from the ranch. All prepared steel (oil field pipe fittings, farm parts, etc.) $1250
A few months after the flood in upstate NY, I took in 2 dumptruck loads of flooded appliances my dad replaced. That was about $550, plus another $200 from all the other things I stripped out of them