whats the most youve made in one scrap run. - Page 5

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

Just under $800, sold a few boxes of motherboards that were collecting dust.

Wow ive never made less than 100,000 in flooring until i broke my leg but i made 83.03 on my first scrap run

I'm pretty small time but brought a loaded trailer to the yard last week. While we were unloading the guys were telling me about a man who brought 20 lbs of steel to sell. Gates were just locked for the night but he stayed out there crying telling them he needed the money. $2.40

**** man you got 118 for 900 p's of aluminum?! Ill get more than that for 900 pounds of unprepared steel at my yard

**** man you got 118 for 900 p's of aluminum?! Ill get more than that for 900 pounds of unprepared steel at my yard

No joke! sounds like he did. I got .60/lb. today, and .40/lb. for radiator alum. .

I have a roll (over 100lb.s) of copper plated steel, insulated High voltage wire (looks just like 12 wire) ,
Been saving it for next place that rips me off!
(accidently sold about 10 lb.s off it before I noticed what it was, Got 2.45/lb. but it messed me up because I slacked a few days since I thought I had 12 wire copper).

Most weight I hauled in one trip was 1500 lb.s of steel (plate mostly), in Ford Ranger.
(thought the tires were going to pop). Took about hour to load, half hour to get there,all before 9a.m. .

I actually made a lot (fastest, pure luck finds) when I was new, because nowhere had told me to leave yet, or posted "No Trespassing" yet either. But that was like $80 in half hour, Driving for $12 more rest of day. Now I'm more consistent.

Most I can remember: myself and the guy who taught me a bunch, bought a huge load of water cooler/heaters for 5gal. jugs. For dirt cheap (from a collection place for them).
Disassembled them ("cleaned" them) ALL evening, night, next day...woke up at 5am and my buddy was still in his yard stripping them! (I usually work others into the ground but was , like " I Have to rest , sorry, just have to now" by about 2:30am).

We got over $400 each. Can't remember the weight in compressors, but the truck was sitting LOW.
Then he tossed all the plastic casings with steel and got away with it.
We may have made more than that off wood pallets a few times.
I think pallets generally s*ck though unless they're like a block from a place that wants them, despite whatever money. Unemployed ,Had one baby at home and other on the way while learning scrap...not sure exactly how that happened.

I'm certain I'll be making more once I get a few things in order,
steps up and another up.

A lawyer called me about cleaning up a property. Seemed like a retired Beckwith Mechanic (heavy equipment), was a scrapper and never hauled anything in. We got to the house and I was amazed. I took out a 1 ton dump of stainless pots and pans, 1 ton dump of alum. pots and pans, two dumps of lawn chairs, misc. steel probally 20-30 truck loads. 3 trucks all week long, I had five guys loading. Three tractors, several cars and a truck with dump insert, and tons of parts. Knocked down over $25,000. The biggest hit was when we went to pull an old econoline van up to haul away. I opened up the back doors and from the doors to the front seat were plastic bags with a brown paper bag inside full of copper with the wire burnt off and wound up and wrapped in the middle. Filled my truck bed to the rails and had my shocks sagging it was about $3000 in copper. I will never forget opening up those doors.

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

I like this story!

that copper part

thats like a scrappers wet dream right there.

i wish i could your guys prices the only place i have thats close to me is short changing everyone they have the monopoly the next closest place is 60 miles away
.30 clean AL
.40 AL cans
.2.00 #1 copper
1.10 brass
$80/ton unprepared scrap
$120/ton prepared scrap
but my best load in was a yard clean out ( i found an old junk toyota car barried in the weeds outback ) lots of copper and AL and 2.5 tons of scrap netted about $450