Quote Originally Posted by zito View Post
Having a partner available you can trust and rely on can be a huge benefit. Having that same partner all the time, all day every day? I don't know about that. My brother and I each usually do our own scrapping, but we still work together even while doing our own thing. We each have our own truck/trailers. We'll let each other know what we're planning on working on for the day, so we're not both hitting the same shops/spots for scrap. On "out of town" days we'll both usually head to the same area, or at least in the same direction, in case one of us has a breakdown or something. Or we'll arrange that one of us will haul cars, while the other will do the "small scrap" stuff, for example brake shops. On big jobs we'll work together, like a farm cleanup. Or say there's a big auction with a lot of scrap, having 2 people available can really help there. Or if you have those cold snowy rainy cruddy days when the roads suck and you're not really motivated, flying solo you're a lot more likely to call it a day earlier and head home. At least I know I am. On those days we'll usually work together.

So I would definitely say that having a partner available ends up making us both a lot more money. But if we were both riding around in the same truck all day, we'd probably end up killing each other, and we'd definitely both make less money.
That is the way to do it right there!

My wife's uncle just moved back here from Kentucky after living down there for about 4 years.

Before he left, he did some scrapping and junk hauling himself.



I told him that when I get the work in, he is more than welcome to help out and I will pay him. I told him, that I would first take out all of my expenses (gas, tools, etc) and then what is left, we can split.

I told my wife, I rather work with someone I know and who is family that I can trust and rely on when and if I need them, and know that they won't be using the money for money or drugs (even though that is their business), then to work with someone and know that I am contributing to stuff like that.

My first partner was a tiny bit of an alcoholic and after 1 or 2, he didn't really care where he threw things, and what he took. Couldn't deal with that.