Hello from The Steel City

Hi,

I'm Irish and grew up in a Mill Town so there was never a shortage of empty cans laying around. My Dad was a part time bartender and would bring cans home in big bags for me when I was like 6 years old. I'd stomp them flat and save them until we had a pick up load.

A good friend of my Dad's owned the scrap yard. I was always allowed to look, roam, and generally explore all over. That was over 30 years ago. I learned what every metal looked like early. When your a kid a bucket of copper is a payday. The bug got me early and I've been a scrapper ever since.

More recently I worked at a guys house who buys catalytic converters, wheels, etc. He is making what I believe to be alot of money. I mean $20,000 a week. He's been doing it forever, not what you but who you know. So I started looking for an opportunity. It may be e-scrap.

I am here to learn. This site is great. So thanx to everyone who came before me and provided the opportunity to learn.

Geiser093

Welcome. We sure are getting a lot of PA members recently. Must be something in the water.

Hello from missouri. Lotz ah money in e-waste. I was shocked a few months ago to learn that all these years of scraping that those curcuit boards were worth anything. lol

There is a scrap yard in almost every neighborhood in Pittsburg. You are never more than 15 minutes away from one. I think it is from the steel mills?

Ya i thought all the electronics were shredder at best.

Welcome to the forum, lots to read and learn here

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Originally Posted by High Voltage Processing

Welcome. We sure are getting a lot of PA members recently. Must be something in the water.

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That's cause we rule! :p

I will tell you, one of my favorite quotes is something George Carville said a few years back. “Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh on one end, Philadelphia on the other, and Alabama in between.”

Figure I'd throw out a random quote.

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Originally Posted by JustInTime

That's cause we rule! :p

I will tell you, one of my favorite quotes is something George Carville said a few years back. “Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh on one end, Philadelphia on the other, and Alabama in between.”

Figure I'd throw out a random quote.

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You should move to the Middle part it sounds AWESOME!..:)

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Originally Posted by Geiser093

There is a scrap yard in almost every neighborhood in Pittsburgh. You are never more than 15 minutes away from one. I think it is from the steel mills?
Ya i thought all the electronics were shredder at best.

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Here was a good load we took to Ohio, about $2100. little better than shred.

http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/...io9-6-11-1.jpg

Nice! Power supplies go to shred?

And did you snip the cables off of them?

And there's still more room in the bed of that truck!

I don't know how I missed this thread originally.

Hello, and welcome, from another Pgh area guy. :D

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Originally Posted by Ditchdigger

I don't know how I missed this thread originally.

Hello, and welcome, from another Pgh area guy. :D

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Hi from the Alabama part of Pa(Somerset)

Welcome aboard



"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."-Jonathan Swift

I am in the process of working on one of those trucks loads now. I am putting a whole plan into action as soon as I get it up and running I will post it in its entirity here on the forum. I want to test results and have some numbers first though. I really feel my plan could be seriously profitable and easy for every member of the forum to use. Hello to all, and GO STEELERS.

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Originally Posted by JustInTime

Nice! Power supplies go to shred?
And did you snip the cables off of them?
And there's still more room in the bed of that truck!

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They didn't go in shred, they went to a buyer for about .28 a lb. and that was after I clipped the wire flush. Yep, that was only about 800 lbs. total for boards, drives, and supplies.