First Day Back To Work....

I had a call for a garbage disposal replacement. Got there and the guy had a range, a dryer, and a washing machine. I asked what he was going to do with them and he told me they were trash. I asked if I could have them and he says okay. So I get done with the job and go home and pick up the trailer and figure I will wind back to see if I can find anything else.. Well, there was a fridge sitting along side the road. I ask the guy if it is trash and if I can take it and he says fine. He tells me not to open it (first rule of scrapping, never open a curbco fridge!). I drive a little farther and get a grill, then another grill. I pick up the customers items and head back. A lawn mower, a chair.... I wound up filling the trailer!

Too bad the yard is close due to having no power.

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Nice load. The fridge is a bit scary but nice load just the same...

The scrap yards around there are goanna get lots of full fridges I would think.

I have a friend that's anosmic... his sense of smell literally does not exist... he can't even taste most things either. Onions he says he can sort of taste. He says they give him a weird sensation that is different than the burn of hot peppers, which he can sense fully.

Anyway, he doesn't mind getting old fridges like that & cleaning them out. He takes them to the dump & throws all the stuff away, usually sending the attendants running away barfing, LOL. Then he bleaches them out. He's had me test smell a few, most passed.

Here's the ticket... Glad the pile is out of my yard. Picked up a grill and an aluminum bike frame on the wat


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Woot! Woot!

I forgot to mention, I got "The Claw!" Yard was backed up and I had all the other crap unloaded behind the trailer and he clawed the stove and came back and clawed the fridge off the trailer. I was big man at the scrap yard!

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Originally Posted by t00nces2

I forgot to mention, I got "The Claw!" Yard was backed up and I had all the other crap unloaded behind the trailer and he clawed the stove and came back and clawed the fridge off the trailer. I was big man at the scrap yard!

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Let us know if steel prices are falling as there is lots of scrap supply for the yards with all that has happened.

I looking at your list above, what are ly motors? Are they aluminum or are they small motors like computer fans and such?

.063 cents a pound for steel? That is insane. I get like .047 cents a pound.
Any who I stay away from steel unless a friend with a truck can help out since I'm a car scrapper at the moment.

But today I did pick up a lawn mower Briggs and Stratton six horse and am thinking its only garbage because the pull cord is broke. Did you test yours?

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Originally Posted by Earther

.063 cents a pound for steel? That is insane. I get like .047 cents a pound.
Any who I stay away from steel unless a friend with a truck can help out since I'm a car scrapper at the moment.

But today I did pick up a lawn mower Briggs and Stratton six horse and am thinking its only garbage because the pull cord is broke. Did you test yours?

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Sometimes the deck is cast aluminum, if you can remove the motor you can sell it as dirty cast or transmission aluminum. The rest is sheet iron / shred.

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Originally Posted by Earther

.063 cents a pound for steel? That is insane. I get like .047 cents a pound.
Any who I stay away from steel unless a friend with a truck can help out since I'm a car scrapper at the moment.

But today I did pick up a lawn mower Briggs and Stratton six horse and am thinking its only garbage because the pull cord is broke. Did you test yours?

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Over the years I've rescued 3 grass trimmers and 1 push mower from dumpsters and the only thing that was wrong with them was a broken pull cord.

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Originally Posted by hobo finds

I looking at your list above, what are ly motors? Are they aluminum or are they small motors like computer fans and such?

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Ceiling fan motors, water pump motors, garbage disposals.... Basically any motor.

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Originally Posted by Earther

.063 cents a pound for steel? That is insane. I get like .047 cents a pound.
Any who I stay away from steel unless a friend with a truck can help out since I'm a car scrapper at the moment.

But today I did pick up a lawn mower Briggs and Stratton six horse and am thinking its only garbage because the pull cord is broke. Did you test yours?

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The mower was toast.

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Originally Posted by hobo finds

Sometimes the deck is cast aluminum, if you can remove the motor you can sell it as dirty cast or transmission aluminum. The rest is sheet iron / shred.

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The mower was toast, but I did pick up a curbco pressure cleaner.

One yard started that around here so I hope it don't spread, I have been lucky any motor alum or copper can go in there electric motor category.