whats the most youve made in one scrap run.

**Geiser093** · 06-24-2012, 09:11 PM

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.

**mikeinreco** · 10-18-2012, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by Geiser093

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.

I like this story!

**msmoorad** · 08-25-2013, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

I like this story!

that copper part

thats like a scrappers wet dream right there.

**snorton1** · 06-26-2014, 06:09 PM

I love reading back through these old responses. It only adds fuel to the fire. For me, I finally broke the $100 dollar mark two days in a row with $133 yesterday and $102 today.
Anyone else have an update?