Planning to clean property and make the first trip ever to recycle -tips?

Have been cleaning as time allows. Everything that can be sold has been sold over the years. Rest of it too illiquid and I'm forced to be a temporary scrapper. I have several trailers to fill of various goodies and only recently have started to learn the terminology a bit/elementary identification.

Never been to the center before and no clue how it works. Do you need to pre-weigh,inventory,classify your goods or will simple cans with cans, batteries with batteries, stacks of rack do?

Read about 15% grade insulated copper wiring off of this,that,people razor blading the pvc off it. The businesses aren't that anal are they? This is just a shine to increased grade right? Or would they reject a metal door until I busted the glass out. Just wondering what the general practice is on such things as lots of consumer products like old tv's have so much dead in them. You bring enough they still pay eh?

Thats my noob concerns. This isn't a passion for me. Don't have the time to process the product to such extents like shaving pvc off or tearing plastic casings,removing non metal parts,etc for them for the biggest buck. Just trying to get the stuff gone for a decent return without risking loading it all up and getting a bunch of nopes.


Have some easier work in some rusty racking (sturdi). I know the place will be thrilled on that but having a hard time figuring out exact grade of it and on this it is worth figuring out to me unlike fridges,water heaters, cookware,decorative brass pots,etc..


Help with the cherry appreciated. Place I'm going is reputable but I'd at least like to not have a target on me the moment I go in for not having it weighed or showing up with a tire that still has rubber when everybody knows better except noobs. Are you a noob? Noob prices are ....

Welcome to the forum. I would recommend taking a load of tin/sheet iron. Just fill your trailer as full as you can and strap it safely down. You will weigh it at the yard. While at the yard take the time to talk to someone about the best way to maximize the stuff that you have left. Here's a good breakdown on material specs from one of my local yards: http://www.marshfieldscrap.com/mater...fications.html

That was a strange and suspicous post

Stick to cleaning...list it for free on craigslist!!...save on time and embarrassement of showing up at the yard with crts

yeah, i dont know if you have couple pick up truck loads full of stuff or like a 10acre lot full of metal, but.... take in a load of obviously plain steel, see what that gets you, glance around at peoples trucks to see what they bring in.... gives you an idea of whats acceptable and how stuff is sorted out

Strange and suspicous? Guys this was our parents estate. My father kept everything he ever ran into free or broken but as he got older time got it in disarray. Mother died not to long ago and my brothers and sisters want nothing to do with the cleanup and since I am the least successful of them (they have a million kids, a high 6 figure borrowed home, and good reviews in academia don't you know) the clean up to help the sell went to me. Basically they came in, filled a few boxes with stuff they wanted and said the rest is yours and a bigger cut of sale will go to me for the work.

I'm just trying not to be wasteful on this but have duties of my own apart from this and can't commit fully. People accumulate a lot of stuff over their lives and the trash,trinkets,trenchcoats and otherwise sellables have been moved.


What is left is furniture and scrap. Not every person is versed in the business and general goods aren't made with its scrapping in mind. You run into a lot of mixed material products like lamps which have aluminum,glass/etc, copper wiring or something simplier like a metal door but with glass paneling.

I was just wondering if you were expected to bring in raw metal (shaving off pvc, tearing a top off a metal desk) or if they handle it for you. I just can't fully seperate the mixed stuff. Too much time to be trying to peel wire off when you will end up having 40 or 50 pounds of it which is quite a task when you aren't shopped up to process it and since I'm not in the business for any longer than the cleanup lasts not worth it to buy all the equipment is it?


I get its a community for scrappers. I'm not a scrapper. Just happen to have enough scrap and seek the most elementary of education on the process.

Well alrighty then first of all if your siblings are sticking you with all the work i would make sure i got all the pay.Secondly the only asolutly necessary tools are some screwdrivers a razor knife and a big hammer

im with Kris Kringle. Post an ad, make a few bucks, and watch your "junk" disapear. Id offer a 25/75 split. or you could just take bids.

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Originally Posted by nooboman

Strange and suspicous? Guys this was our parents estate. My father kept everything he ever ran into free or broken but as he got older time got it in disarray. Mother died not to long ago and my brothers and sisters want nothing to do with the cleanup and since I am the least successful of them (they have a million kids, a high 6 figure borrowed home, and good reviews in academia don't you know) the clean up to help the sell went to me. Basically they came in, filled a few boxes with stuff they wanted and said the rest is yours and a bigger cut of sale will go to me for the work.

I'm just trying not to be wasteful on this but have duties of my own apart from this and can't commit fully. People accumulate a lot of stuff over their lives and the trash,trinkets,trenchcoats and otherwise sellables have been moved.


What is left is furniture and scrap. Not every person is versed in the business and general goods aren't made with its scrapping in mind. You run into a lot of mixed material products like lamps which have aluminum,glass/etc, copper wiring or something simplier like a metal door but with glass paneling.

I was just wondering if you were expected to bring in raw metal (shaving off pvc, tearing a top off a metal desk) or if they handle it for you. I just can't fully seperate the mixed stuff. Too much time to be trying to peel wire off when you will end up having 40 or 50 pounds of it which is quite a task when you aren't shopped up to process it and since I'm not in the business for any longer than the cleanup lasts not worth it to buy all the equipment is it?


I get its a community for scrappers. I'm not a scrapper. Just happen to have enough scrap and seek the most elementary of education on the process.

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I know you think all that's left is junk, but call a local auctioneer to come buy. Even after his cut you'll get higher than scrap prices (Or thereabouts) and the Auctioneer moves the merchandise. Then just don't be afraid to load a truck up and go. If it's as extensive as you say, you'll probably make more money that you think in the long run. And don't tell your siblings....they don't want to help, they don't get to know.

Or you could just load it all up and haul to the dump. Be done with the whole thing.

When I first scrapped out several tons of old computers, all i knew was the main boards had to be removed as being toxic waste. At the same time I also spent a great deal of energy removing most all the plastic covers etc. I had probly the cleanest computer cases they'd ever seen, and a huge pile of plastic, which I near never was able to get rid of! If i'd only left it in place, it would have made no difference to the yard, and would have saved me a great deal of time, energy, and cusswords

Yeah, I'm finding out there are two basic ways to go. One is the easy way: Just pile it up and take it in. Then there's the not-so-easy way: Take it apart, sort it out, and take everything to the yard in separate boxes/bundles/whatever. One pays higher than the other. If you think in terms of dollars-per-hour, the first one might be best for you. If you think in terms of dollars-per-payout (that's me) the second option might be best.

I just thought of a third option: Get a heavy hammer and beat the snot out of everything.