I finally had to take my tin to the yard. I was running out of space and Gaylords. Total load: 7,660 pounds.
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I finally had to take my tin to the yard. I was running out of space and Gaylords. Total load: 7,660 pounds.
Sweet mother of Goodness!
YEEEOW!
Do you have a place to recycle your plastic.
Hey Spinroch, that's a bit neater than what I am dealing with and yes , I am out of room also, need to make a run maybe this weekend. I estimate only about 2000# for me. It pays the fuel bill.
With that size load, they sent a forklift and three guys out to unload my truck! Nice!
So far, I have no local market for the plastic and I can't dedicate the storage space to such a low priced item. Always looking for new ideas, though... Currently it goes off to be recycled with all my other end of the line junk.
Nice load Spin....did you get a bump in price for that load?
Hey is that weitsmans?o:)
I'm a little jealous here. Lots of scrap AND blue skies and no snow
Nice load but your yard seems to be on a really steep hill.
Nice work.
Yep. It's Weitsmans. They will soon be the Borg of scrap metal. ONLY Weitsmans. They pay better that the other yards. They say they are giving the best price and bigger loads go for the same price as the smaller loads. We shall see.....
The Amazon tactic. The smaller guys getting the high volume pricing actually costs quite a bit in administration. Figure more paperwork and paid labor to handle more customers but....if they hold out long enough they will starve every other company in the area out of business.Quote:
Originally Posted by spinroch
awesome load!!
Nice haul. Was that load ten Gaylord boxes? Just wondering for weight gestimation purposes.
*clears my throat*Quote:
Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER
>:)
The load of tin was actually 12 Gaylords. It filled up a 26 ft. Truck. I subsequently took in 3 gaylords of aluminum and 3 aluminum wheels I found on the side of the road. They didn't even sort the aluminum, cause they know me. Total weight: 1,000 lbs, not including the wheels. I can make payroll this week. WooHoo!!
Wholly cow! As much as I love my hoard (which is about an 1/8th of that) I love it more when it's finally gone. Ahh...space!!!
Strange question- if that's a single axle 26' truck, do you remember what the empty weight is? I've never been able to find an accurate number for calculating payload.
I should know, but I dont!
Spin,Quote:
Originally Posted by spinroch
Last time I was at their Albany yard, there price list had something in the upper left corner about larger loads. It included a name and number to call for better pricing on large loads. Not sure what quantity they would be looking for on light iron to qualify, but it may be worth looking into.
Mark
Not a problem! This means one thing, though:
Go and fill another box truck with metal! :D
Mtthomas: thanks for the tip!
Matador: I already filled another Gaylord with tin today!!
I noticed that also. I nearly fell out of my chair at work looking at those pics. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by KzScrapper
If that forklift can climb at a 90 degree angle loaded, I'll make sure to get one of those when the time comes!
Imagine the possibilities....
I'd like to see some pics of the boards that came out of all that metal.
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Some of the boards that we harvested...
harvested.....I prefer...... liberated
Free at last, Free at last
talk about getting pumped up to hit the pile!!!
This thread is full of go juice :)
What would the third picture be classified as? I got something similar out of what I think was a satellite receiver.Quote:
Originally Posted by spinroch
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Originally Posted by matador
Should tell you on your receipt - it's how I found out my pickup weighed 4500lbs empty(I figured it was around there but wasn't sure).Quote:
Originally Posted by spinroch
I like the fourth picture..you can see the back end of a red car sticking out about 6 feet off the ground
Nice!
Spin...this made me drool. I usually only drool, when napping. :p
I watched the operator flip that red car like it was a candy wrapper.
Really nice load. I like to keep mine neat to pack more on the trailer, but the full gaylords are all that.
:)) Beautiful... just simply beautiful.
just a small tip that helps me pack the car with more tin fill the pc carcasses with smaller tin and also fold the sides in on the tops of some of the tin pieces it makes them flatter and allows for slightly more room
Nice to see a man on a mission keep it up. I wanted to share my thoughts with you on this subject. Tin /shread. I used to do the same thing with my tin, well almost I never loaded Gaylord's, used to pile it outside and when the pile got to big load it up and off to the yard, I personaly would not load Gaylord's with tin, just to much labor and time, tin is a buy product of e-waste that basically has little to no value and when your staff have to handle it more than once you actually lose money on it, the key is to handle it as least as possible, the way to do that is have your yard deliver you a fourty yard dumpster,it will take up less space in your yard then the truck.i like the idea of loading a Gaylord in the work area, nice and neat we will be starting that tomarrow, but it will go right to the dumpster and get loaded in. I get the weight slips both full and empty with a time stamp both ways, the time stamp cuts Down on any funny business. Some guys will think that I am crazy to say that you lose money on tin but when you get to a level that you have to pay people to handle it and you are at that level, just think about what it costs you in labor and wear and tear on truck gas, time I hope I made myoint clear, now I am assuming you have the room for the dumpster, it's nice you call them they pick up the tin and bring you back a empty dumpster, and a check for the load. Hope that it helps keep up the good work I love to see hard working guys prosper Happy Scraping 1956.
We are on the same track as far as your thoughts on the cost of handling tin. It is not practical for me to place a scrap metal dumpster at our site. We fill the Gaylords with tin as we go, then we stack them 2 high to save space. (Thank goodness for my forklift!) When we fill 14 Gaylords, we have about 7,500 pounds of tin, and we load the truck with pallet jacks and the forklift and make a run to the yard. By then, I usually also have 1,00 pounds of aluminum, so the combination takes the pain out of the trip to the yard. Using the Gaylords on pallets, a forklift and a Penske truck makes it a relatively easy trip. I try to do as little manual loading as possible. Wear and tear on the truck: We sold our box truck recently, and find it to be cheaper in the long run to rent them when needed. I like it when they unload the truck for me at the yard! Thanks for the input!