Least favorite shred item to unload.

I did some searching to see if there was a thread on this yet. I didn't find any so forgive me if this has been started before.

I see lots of posts on favorites. Be it tools, methods, locations, etc. The only least favorite I found was least favorite item to break down. But we all know break down is only half the battle. At the end of the day, in order to get paid, we have to go unload.

What's your least favorite thing to have to throw out the back of your truck or trailer?

For me, its definitely a close call between chain link fence and a stack of wire coat hangers. The fence only winning because it's heavy to boot. Their ability to grab anything and everything around them is unmatched. So much so, at times it seems the items they've grabbed on to move more than they do when pulled on. Lol.

At current prices ALL of it. Mike

Large copy machines. I break them down (remove memory and boards) in back of the truck, remove toner and cut the cord and that's it. Way too heavy to load, unload to break down, reload and then unload at the scrapyard.

Definitely coat hangers, except I don't touch them anymore. So next on the list would be washing machines, whether they still have water in them or not (PITA) they always seem to get stuck more than anything else.

Fencing wire if you're unloading it by hand. Never fails its a tangled up mess and gets hung in everything. But the yard I deal with unloads everything with a magnet or a grapple, so I really dont have a least favorite anymore

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Originally Posted by hobo finds

Large copy machines. I break them down (remove memory and boards) in back of the truck, remove toner and cut the cord and that's it. Way too heavy to load, unload to break down, reload and then unload at the scrapyard.

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Definitely. I had a load with three of them on the trailer. It was snowing at the yard, so nobody came out to help. After wrestling three of them off the trailer, I hope I never see another one!

I cut the cord after I had it off the truck- I used the power cords like a rope to pull it with....

For me my least favorite items to off load are refrigerators, and older washers from the 60`s and 70`s since they always seem to get stuck on the trailer and we have to off load by hand at the only junkyard within 100 miles so that dosent help any.

A pickup truck bed of Tomato Cages I did last summer was horrible! Pokey items at every grab!

Definally agree with large copy machines, and also ovens. They never want to move right.

my yard has magnet and grapple so i do little work.. just the plastic thats left over when done.. i would rather off load myself if i could get better prices.

One time I found a copier and had my kids with me 15 year old girl and 13 year old son we (took all 3 of us) loaded up the heaviest copier, I could have not done it without the help. 2nd place for heavy Item was a large stainless steel grill way to heavy to unload to break down so I broke it down in the back of the truck until I could move it again...

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Originally Posted by AdmiralAluminum

Definitely coat hangers, except I don't touch them anymore. So next on the list would be washing machines, whether they still have water in them or not (PITA) they always seem to get stuck more than anything else.

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No unloading for me :) use a dump trailer for my shred!

Washing machines

Large chest freezers. Especially old ones, new ones? Not so much

Was unloading a washing machine from a fire and the door flipped open and out came a bale of soaked in water and sooty fire damaged clothes.... Hate washers

whole loads of channel steel bed frames with big plastic feet and any of the wire fencing.

I would have to agree with the fencing. Since I have a flatbed trailer that sits lower to the ground than a truck, I don't have the issues with the washing machines and heavy printers most others do. Printers I can lay them down and just scoot them out the back on the slick wood floor. I love washers as I can stuff them full of small stuff, and since the yard unloads them with the crane with claws, I do not have to worry about unloading them. That being said, since I do not depend on scrapping for much of my income, I may take a bit of a hiatus from scrapping with prices where they are now. Will probably talk to the owner of the plumbing company I pick up from and let him know since shred has taken such a nosedive, I may have to start charging him $2 - $3 each to pick up the dishwashers. He can just pass that cost on to the consumer, and most of those folks wont complain about having to pay that as it will prevent them from having to get rid of them.

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Too funny! I knew someone was going to reference this movie and I was scrolling down my bet was on Sir Scrapalot. You win!

A truckload of bicycles. They all get stuck in one another. My personal favorite is just a truck load of stripped appliances, mostly washers, hot water tanks, and fridges. SO easy to just tip them over and slide them off the back into a pile. In and out in 10 minutes.

I would have to go with bicycles. Every **** thing in the load gets caught in the spokes or the frames or the wheel turns and locks on some crap.

I hate unloading anything that still works. (or did work until I broke it down). Appliances, exercise machines, even xp computers. After trying to sell for months to no avail, it's time to reclaim the space it took up. But I hate scrapping anything that still work properly.

Anything that outweighs me or anything that gets tangled.. tend to get either cut or poked by stuff like that or crushed lol!