What's your best load so far? The one that helped my business plan go from plan into action was the best I've had so far: 1451 lbs. #1 CU. @ 3.12 $4527.12. Minus the $500 I paid for it with insulation still intact.
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What's your best load so far? The one that helped my business plan go from plan into action was the best I've had so far: 1451 lbs. #1 CU. @ 3.12 $4527.12. Minus the $500 I paid for it with insulation still intact.
man thats got me beat by a long shot .. my biggest was 831 lbs made 182 bucks !! man i need a trailer bad !!
Don't feel bad I don't have one either I just have a big truck dodge 1500 ex-cab lwb 4x4
way back, when i first started scrapping,made a good hit about $ 480,this was when copper #2 was like 80 cents. had quite a bit of shred, really cant remember how much it was paying. This was when the kids were young. used to save up till right before the county fair,use the money for that
Definitely not near that. Congratulations. I also do not have a trailer but I squeezed just under 3000 pounds of cast iron @ .11 a lb, 45 lbs. of CU @ 3.10, and 100 lbs of aluminum @ .52. A very VERY slow drive in a 1500 sierra. That's my biggest load to date. I use a container service though and have about 6 tons taken in each week.
although I can not compare to you, my best load so far, I had about a ton in the bed of heavy iron and a trailer with light iron. brought me $250 however I am sitting on about 150lbs of cu. and when the price goes back up should bring well over 400 bucks!
all i have is chevy 1500 extended cab .. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Alacycle2
My biggest was last weekend, a random assortment of just about everything, brass, copper, aluminum, hard drives, power supplies, and a few stripped towers for shred. $180. That's a big jump up from the $40 every other week I started at a couple months ago.
2500
This time of year between 300 and 600 are normal for us, car full of shred striped appliances, in the truck
Not my best pick but a good one.went to a auction Saturday And bought a pile of old pipes for 2 dollars.took to the Scrap yard this morning....$109 not bad
Not bad at all.
Havent brought it in yet, but right now im sitting on about 1800 lbs. of what should be #1 copper. Would like to get it up to at least 2000 lbs. Going to use it for a trip to the Ukraine with the wife.
Since I figure I have made around 1500 trips to the yard it's a big blur already But I remember having $500 dollar days $300 days plenty at $100 and many under $100
some times the yard people are sick of seeing me. Tuff Luck for them !!
Yeah I know exactly what you mean I've been hauling copper since I was 6 having to help my father of course if I loaded & unloaded cleaned & loaded it back up I got payed an jaw dropping 20$ lol I thought I was rich then lol an entire pickup 72 Chevy pick up
$4800+ pickup load 3/4 full of cats. but are curently bidding on a 40 foot ladder trick in perfict shape. 60 foot aluminiun ladder all works including the brass pumper. thinking of selling the ladder and pumper and turning the truck into a scrap truck by painting it eco green or a tour buss. could be a great publicity piece. if we win it.
$4189 to ewasted.
In a 95 nissan truck
most pounds 700 of steel got $64.75 for it.
most cash $271.15 mixed load of stuff weiged 429 lbs.
over 700 pounds shred and some copper and brass tossed in also, made just over 250 dollars. all in a Ford Focus wagon.
For me the most was a little over 1000 lbs of motherboards for about $4000.
11,340lbs yesterday, split between another guy and me , crazy busy, had to unload 3 times in th last 4 days , found some cool copper heat sinks in 2 cable boxes? 99 Sebring on the trailer ready to go
Found a yard just as eager as w are about getting into ewaste, with fair prices, north its the boarder, good things in the works.
2 years ago now my partner and I took a pickup load of totes full of escrap to Ohio and came back with $2200.
Took a while to accumulate that many boards.
Every Tuesday & Friday I drive right by the yard anyway on my regular route at my 'real' job, so I take loads in a couple times a week, so I don't let the stuff build up into what you could call a "big" run... my main limit is storage, plus I don't want to overload the truck, plus I kinda like keeping the cash a-flowin'.
Biggest weight: 807#
Biggest payday: $530.55
The payday I'm going to get on my next ewaste run to HLH&R will be a new record, though. How much will depend on the results of a couple of auctions that end this week. If they go well I'll top a grand. I'm close already.
New biggest weight: 1118 this morning. Sixty-something computer cases, a trampoline frame, and a heavy steel table added up this week!
Took the power supplies from those cases, too... only 15cents a pound but 114 pounds of them!
Only 131 bucks, though. :(
up date: $5139.99 to ewasted.
there were also times when I took in 5 lbs of copper for food too.
I am very thankful for what this forum has taught me, thank you all sincerely, mcw
Couple of years ago I took some ewaste in and got $695.00. Been close to that a couple times. I have the same issue as a lot of people, which is space
I've had a few but these next 2 hauls I have pictures of.
First is the 3 roof top A/C units. Striped to the bone.
http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...aPickers/G.jpg
http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...aPickers/H.jpg
Here is the next one.
HVAC buddy we know.
Cost us a case of beer and pack of smokes.
I love my HVAC and gas fitting buddies.
Not me in picture, my high paid worker wondering where do I start?
http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...s/P1000119.jpg
http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...s/P1000121.jpg
http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...s/P1000122.jpg
http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...s/P1000125.jpg
http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...s/P1000139.jpg
http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...s/P1000140.jpg
http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...s/P1000141.jpg
$1500 a couple times then $800 a few other times, but average 100-500$
Oh and nice pics above!!
Well, kinda cheating here, but this was all in one day, and was from the same place. The only thing that kept it from being one load was the fact that I have nothing that would hold 20 server racks for transport!
Load 1: 1100#
Load 2: 1100#
Load 3" 780#
Load 4: 1040#
Total: 4020#
Never even had a one-ton day, and I go & bust off a two-ton day! :))
Best part is, Load 5 was all the cherries: A mostly aluminum server rack, a couple with some UPS's and one with 11 Dell Poweredge 1950s. They're in my garage awaiting breakdown.
Awesome part is, the bid I submitted was for 11 empty racks & one with 4 server UPS's. Love it when the ask, "Hey, do you want this, too?"