Scrapping in the country if kinda tough because everyone out here either scraps or holds onto their scrap. Unless you know someone its tough to consistency gets large amounts of scrap
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Scrapping in the country if kinda tough because everyone out here either scraps or holds onto their scrap. Unless you know someone its tough to consistency gets large amounts of scrap
But the upside of living in the country is that you have a place to dismantle and store your scrap without anyone bothering you about it. I always go to the city and suburbs to find scrap.
Lots of old dumps to pick through in my area. Also check along rivers, lakes, creeks, sometimes find stuff. Might want to look into ewaste. Living in the country no one complains too much what you have laying around.
I'm about as far out in the country as you're going to get. I've developed a pretty good stream of scrap. A lot of it is people bringing it to me. It just takes patience. And networking.
That's what I'm trying to do. Get my name out and use word of mouth to try to get things going. Right now I'm looking into escrap too, if i can find a buyer for that stuff. Just have to know someone who has connections and go from there. Yes, having a place in the country to put things without it being bothered is a plus.
another downside to living in the country is that it takes $10-15 in gas to do anything
You just have to adapt and work smarter. Things that work for a lot if guys on here don't work for us. BUT - some things that work for me don't work for them. Right now, I'm dealing with the shipping issue. When I look at shipping costs for e-scrap from central Maine to almost anywhere, it looks impossible. But I'm not going to let that stop me from getting into e-scrap. I'll just have to come up with something. One thing might be stockpiling till I've got bigger loads and haul it myself. I'm thinking that a side benefit might be better prices for the hundreds of pounds of copper and aluminum I've got at a place closer to a dock to help offset the cost of driving there. Just an example of thinking differently.
have you gotten fedex quotes from Ewasted's site? if you ship in boxes 65-70lbs you should stay at or below $0.50 lb but you need to use his shipping discount. There are other buyers with shipping accounts, but I have not gotten quotes from them. Relectrocycle in Florida offers lower prices but pays all shipping.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
I am not endorsing either of these companies because that is reserved for thier threads, just an example of possible pricing. I hope this makes you some money
I am about as far removed as Mick, and can't imagine trying to scrap in the city.
Bigist downside is dominoes doesnt deliver :)
No big loss there,,,,Quote:
Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper
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Find you a niche in the market and concentrate on that and the rest will follow and fall into place.
ok papa johns?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mechanic688
I could think of hundreds of downsides to living in the country
1. Having to hear birds singing in the morning, instead of getting to hear a neighbor hammering on his truck, and trying to get it started
2. Not getting to hear the garbage truck driving around the neighborhood, and only hearing the sound of the wind
3 As mentioned above, no pizza delivery (the last one I ordered was 5 years ago, and it hasn't showed yet!)
4 Having to smell crisp fresh air in the morning, instead of the chemical plant and the truck and auto fumes
5 Not having traffic all around (front, back, and both sides) to hold me on the road while I'm waking up, and having to drive down the road all alone in the mornings
The list goes on ; )
I hear you with everyone else scrapping themselves or just holding on to it. If you do go around to the neighbors to buy scrap, present yourself as professionally as you can. I have been able to buy scrap off some of the old farmers around here where alot of other guys have been run off the property. Nothing against any of them as many of them are "friends" but showing up in a clean vehicle with clean clothes on and a shower can sometimes help. Alot of the old guys around here have a bad taste in their mouth for scrappers, at one time or another most have had people remove scrap that tore up the land and left a mess behind them. Professionalism and a good reputation of being respectfull of people and their property can go a long way.
I live in the middle of nowhere. 35 minutes to the closest scrap yard. I Get most of my scrap from customers at my work. Bring it home break it down and wait till i have a truck load then take it in. I use my little truck(nissan) to do all of my pick-ups to save on gas. With my ewaste im lucky enough to have a good buyer about 2 hours away so i just wait till i have a load big enough to fill my little pickup (usually about $1000 dollars worth) then drive it to him. Like has been said before the best part of living in the country is noone complains about my pile of scrap, well maybe my wife does a little.
I live on a farm in rural western Kentucky. I love it! Between all my work, it's nice to be able to relax and tinker. One of the big reasons I took up scrapping/salvaging is because I wanted to 'play.' It's just fun to take stuff apart. Nobody complains about my scrap because I have a 60x100 shop with a 20x100 lean-to on the side. It's all inside and out of view. Fifty-five gallon drums for brass, number one copper, number two copper, aluminum, small shred, etc. I pile the larger shred on pallets and put it up on pallet racks. It stays nice and tidy until it's the scrap yard's problem.
Jealous green-eyed envy...Quote:
Originally Posted by SladeMcCuiston
If that pizza shows up, do no eat it!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Bear
I do have one close neighbor (1/2 mile). There is a hill between my place and his, so we don't have to see/hear each other. I am 15 miles from the nearest small town, and 1.5 miles to the nearest pavement. I have lived in metro areas in the past (LA, Denver, SLC). Aside from a few minor conveniences not available here, I don't remember an upside to living/working in the city.
work was more plentiful, was usually why I went thereQuote:
Originally Posted by c4f5
Have you considered paying for your scrap, the top competitor gets the worm.Quote:
Originally Posted by porkchop01
I get most of my scrap from the local Indian Reserves.
Down Side # 102
Being deprived of getting to flip through 200 TV stations in order to decide there's nothing on, and having only one station from which to reach the same conclusion :)
If the pizza shows up, it should be free!
Watching the deer pass through your yard, being able to hear a pin drop in the dead of night, see millions of stars in the evening sky, going out your back door buck naked, if your so inclined to water the lawn no restrictions on water use. Yea living in the country certainly has it's pit falls.
I wouldn’t trade country living for the city anytime soon.
No sewer or water bills. But, if anything goes wrong with either, (as the homeowner) I'm totally responsible for getting it fixed (private well and septic).
As for TV, that's what dish network is for. We're so far out, cable won't even come here.
I also see turkeys, moose, skunks, porcupines, coyotes, beaver and turtles in our yard.
You might try some farm sales, normally a pile of scrap at the ones i've been to. but of course theirs normally some competition.Have to be able to judge the value on the fly. There is also an advantage to being the local, ive bought a couple piles,just because no one else wanted to haul it back home, lucky my home was one block away. I also have got some free scrap because the competition had all they could load and did'nt want the exspense of driving back 80 miles. So they got all the really good stuff, gave me the rest. which was a pretty fair pile of short iron.
Ranch 20 miles from town and 50 miles from scrap yard. Big trailer and full loads are the only way to deliver that pizza. Labs are our doorbell and notify us of all visitors, 99% are animals to numerous to list.
Happy Hunting to gun owners. May your bullets be with you.
There is no down side to living in the country the gals like to drink beer and shoot guns. :D
I've also had some luck at farm sales, auctions and estate sales. There is usually a pile of junk around they don't know what to do with. A couple years ago, I bought a pile of junk by the garage and they "threw in" some old farm machinery (think: harrow, disc etc) that was "sitting around, rusting and not worth trying to sell".
I solved that problem at Christmas, bought a Roku box, and started getting Hulu + went with a lot smaller Sat package,mostly for the local channels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
How far from a city are you
I cut that cord in the year 2000, and haven't looked back. Don't regret it a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear