Starting a Mobile Home Tear Down

On Monday we start to tear down a double wide. Since I have not been working bills are coming due. It is going to be a big job, I planned and think we can make some money. There is junk in the home. Here is my plan.
1. Day 1 cut out all windows, siding and any other alum. I will take it to the yard. The price is 60 cents per pound. The yard is 3 miles away.
2. Day 2 pull out all junk left by and put in burn pile. I give us 3 hours and 3 hours taking out tub, sinks etc.
3. Day 3 cut roof in sections and pull off set in steel pile.pull all wires and put in bucket. Talk to fire dept. to see if they would like to train and burn it.
4. After they burn I'll go in and cut up frame. My goal is to have this done in 7 days.
As of Sat. here's what prices were.
1.Steel $12.50 per hundred
2. Copper $3.50 per # on #1
3. Alum..60 per #
4. Ins. Wire .60 per#
Well I hope this works out.

rent a back hoe do it in 2/3 days and save all the back achs. strip the wireing or sell it to a fellow SIS, scrapper. just my .02

Olddude do you think it is worth it to rent a back hoe?

lol, so will you by the time your done. But then im old. tear off all the alum, strip all obvious. brass fitures, windows, and copper take it to the yard. strip the wall copper. and plumbing watch for copper lines leading to vacated propaine tanks ect. then rent the back hoe for one long day to tear down and pile the scrap, you will thank me if you ever do one completely by hand. the flooring structure is a b**ch.

hey there, Im new to the scrap industry and was thinking....how much do you figure you will make once your done?

sry my net has been down for 4 days. what the he-- we all gonna do when the lights go out for real . I digress. any way the last completev single wide I did was a 70 by 12 if I remember and it was 2 or 3 years ago, copper was down. my total take was about $900, but in my opinion there are a lot easier ways to scrap and make $900 it is a bear with out a back hoe or at least a tractor.

Im doing one now rotted floor so it is not so bad but the copper and most of the aly is long gone. if I remember right the frame was about 900 lbs of #1 steel then, now most yards consider it #2 or light iron except for the axles. the one Im on now is a 40 or 45 footer, ill be lucky if the frame hits 500 lbs. if the floor had not been rotted to paper I would have passed. but here is a boom business if you have access to several, and the right property. A MOBILE HOME PARTS LOT LIKE A CAR PARTS LOT.

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Originally Posted by ocedy

On Monday we start to tear down a double wide. Since I have not been working bills are coming due. It is going to be a big job, I planned and think we can make some money. There is junk in the home. Here is my plan.
1. Day 1 cut out all windows, siding and any other alum. I will take it to the yard. The price is 60 cents per pound. The yard is 3 miles away.
2. Day 2 pull out all junk left by and put in burn pile. I give us 3 hours and 3 hours taking out tub, sinks etc.
3. Day 3 cut roof in sections and pull off set in steel pile.pull all wires and put in bucket. Talk to fire dept. to see if they would like to train and burn it.
4. After they burn I'll go in and cut up frame. My goal is to have this done in 7 days.
As of Sat. here's what prices were.
1.Steel $12.50 per hundred
2. Copper $3.50 per # on #1
3. Alum..60 per #
4. Ins. Wire .60 per#
Well I hope this works out.

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Dude you would make more $$$ picking cans and bottles, with out the headaches.

I can see the picture clearly, you light a fire to burn some rubbish and get a ticket.

A double wide should have asphalt roofing, maybe even plastic siding to go with the sawdust board under flooring and those crappy cupboards and closets.

Why? are you doing this with out equipment. Are you planning to take the cream and run.