I made 160 in a days work, 2 loads though.
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I made 160 in a days work, 2 loads though.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
169 off 12 pounds of christman lights/.35 4 pounds dirty caf/.50 16 pounds electric motors/.25 44 pounds of #2 copper/3.25 nd 160 pounds of shred 210/t for 143 from the copper nice 3 foot long 2 foot wide bucket quarte full was saving for about a week nd a couple days I usually just save up my copper since I work most with mixed metal nd once I get 20 or more I take it in I don't get a lot of copper thou so it takes a week just to get 20 pounds
New Guy
3200 all # 1 copper, have had several loads over the past few years of 2k +
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scrap metalscrap metalscrap metalscrap metal! made $270 today. was hoping to beat my $325 but came close. 25 pounds of #1, 34 pounds of insulated, and 41 pounds of #2 and 11 pounds of brass
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$817 including 61 Car Batteries I found yesterday.
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You know you gotta tell us about that manOriginally Posted by rca987
Get outtta here you scrapper
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Found 61 car batteries at a dump spot, $366 for that alone. The rest was from mostly bulk trash pick up for one weeks worth.
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nice! Man i wish i had that many car batteries lol!
*i have scrap metal running through my blood and i love it*
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P.s your getting 6$ a battery? if so thats low my yard give me $11 per battery... ( 61x11=$671 )
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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i am small time, but trying to grow. Have done a couple jobs that were $3,000 plus, total. My best single load so far was today...a lil over $1100. A friend and I are bidding a partnership job. If it comes through, it will be about a $20,000 job.
New Guy
Holy smokes, I guess I have a bad eye for spotting car batteries.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
$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.
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Cut the top off with a angle grinder & cut off disc.
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.
Last edited by eesakiwi; 04-29-2011 at 09:01 PM.
Experienced Scrapper
$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
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
crap big blue you made out like a bandit
New Guy
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
Last edited by kevlars; 04-24-2011 at 12:05 AM.
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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.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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.
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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.
Experienced Scrapper
162 dollars for 2 hours of work!
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