Hello for Alaska !

Hello everyone, I'm a first time scrapper and I live here in a small village in Alaska by the name of Dillingham. Here is Bristol Bay we have the largest natural salmon resource in the world. If you have ever seen Deadliest Catch, when they show the map if you were to look to the right or east you will see Bristol Bay. We are not on the road system here, so every thing must be either flown in or barged out in the spring and summer time, so steel is not a reseller here. I'm starting out with copper, brass and AL. Just digging in the dump scrap yard and hitting up the business for e scrap. I have learned a lot from you all so far, and looking to learn as much as I can. Thank you all for your help so far. Oh yeah, shipping out runs $0.30 a pound Air and barge is about $0.20.

Welcome from a sandbar off the coast of NC. We have at lest two members that I know of from your neck of the woods!

Best resource on the internet you'll find for all things scrap. From junk cars, to fancy shmancy computer servers, to heck even how to demo a ship!

Not a watcher of Deadliest Catch, but I've seen a episode or 2 of Alaska State Troopers!

Good luck an again welcome to the forums!

Sirscrapalot - Keeper of the traveling cooler, quote master, an all around trouble maker.

Welcome from WI. With the shipping there, sounds like that will be a decent cut from your profits on scrap. Though if you are getting it all free...lol

Hello SnowBeast,

I used to live not far from you. I lived in King Salmon, AK for a while. I am surprised you are able to get any scrap up that way.....everybody saved everything in Naknek and King Salmon!!! Take care and best of luck to you!

-SoOrScrpr

Welcome to the forum. As I recall one of our members from up there ships via USPS and still makes more money for his Cu scrap than he can get locally. You may want to look into it. Mike.

Welcome from Cincy, Ohio.

Hey SB, welcome to SMF, and good luck! I was gonna use Miked's suggestion. You might check into USPS flat rate boxes for your shipping, specially for higher grade stuff like CPUs and RAM, finger cards too maybe, you might even have an advantage on the folks in Canada since there wouldn't be import/export or customs fees. Hek, save up your copper and such and in the spring take you a barge ride to somewhere with a scrap yard, lil mini vacation maybe

yeah some of them shows up there.I seen scrap laying around everywhere lol.