Sorting Styles

I have been reading a lot of posts and I am wondering how your guys's yard sorts metal. I feel like my yard has the easiest sorting catagories. Aluminum clean - aluminum dirty. Painted goes as clean. Stainless clean - stainless dirty - 1 copper any copper that's pure copper with no other metals (gauge doesn't matter) - 2 copper any copper with small portions of others things on it - soddered joints, paint, brass fittings -shred steel,iron, ferrous metals with small amounts of non metal on it or none such as lawn mower with seat and tires or full basketball hoop with plastic base. - clean brass -dirty brass - insulated copper. That's just the basic list and is how I sort those main metals. How to hear how your yard wants it sorted!

My yard sorts as I tell them to haha I guess they like me alot. They always ask me how much I want for it and what category its in.
But otherwise its the same as you.

Every yard is different depending on their position in the chain of command. Imagine the scrap buying community as a tree and you are one of the top branches. As metal moves down the line, it is sorted more to maximize profits. Any time you have pure non ferrous metals it is best to sell it as far down towards the roots as you can. Standard prepared or unprepared does not gain much value as it moves down the chain, each root only separates it more. The goal is to get the purest metal to the core of the earth. Did you know there is over 100 types of stainless alone?

The more categories a yard expects, the closer you are to the roots.

Contacts in Nebraska that are further down the tree are available if you P.M. me.

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Originally Posted by DevinThaScrapper

I have been reading a lot of posts and I am wondering how your guys's yard sorts metal. I feel like my yard has the easiest sorting catagories. Aluminum clean - aluminum dirty. Painted goes as clean. Stainless clean - stainless dirty - 1 copper any copper that's pure copper with no other metals (gauge doesn't matter) - 2 copper any copper with small portions of others things on it - soddered joints, paint, brass fittings -shred steel,iron, ferrous metals with small amounts of non metal on it or none such as lawn mower with seat and tires or full basketball hoop with plastic base. - clean brass -dirty brass - insulated copper. That's just the basic list and is how I sort those main metals. How to hear how your yard wants it sorted!

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it may be better that way, depending on how much they pay for the various metals.

if ur getting screwed on prices, then its not worth it
but if theres only a small difference between them & most other yards, its much better that way

u dont have to process/clean too much

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Originally Posted by F350scrapper

My yard sorts as I tell them to haha I guess they like me alot. They always ask me how much I want for it and what category its in.
But otherwise its the same as you.

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seriously??
that would be good if it happened by me

in many ways, i know more than most staff at the scrapyard
but they wont listen to me- i have to accept their rules & rates

actually, the young guy who manages the place- he did not even know whats a catalytic converter until i told him about it!
same for ewaste

they pay shred/sub grade price for it
and theres only a handful of guys doing ewaste in South Africa

Ya the yard here does clean or unclean alum. and it drives me nuts. I had 6061 framing for windows and they lumped that into my cast alum. pile. Payed .20/lb or something. Then paid me .40/lb for cans. How the hell does that compute?