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The problems we face of being scrappers.
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The problems we face of being scrappers.
Not that hard. DO NOT HOARD STEEL! It is worthless. The only time I pick up steel is when I have a load of non ferrous to take in. Pile that crap up and get paid. Throw the little mouse bodies into the shred to sweeten the load. Burn through that crap and get rid of your troubles!
Yep I'm going to be doing lots of cleaning this weekend until I get rid of all this crap. Plus dam neighbors are complaining already. But my back yard is not of their business as long as my front looks good they should just keep their mouth shut.Quote:
Originally Posted by t00nces2
sorry bro- i think thats the wrong attitude to have.Quote:
Originally Posted by geravega77
they are your neighbours- when u are in some problem one day, u will turn to them & u wont appreciate it if they turn their backs on you for not being a decent neighbour to them.
your scrap can become a breeding ground for rats etc if u leave it for too long and it will be an eyesore- even if your front looks neat, u surely cant expect your neighbours to only look out their front windows & ignore what the view from their back windows looks like.
and most importantly: no matter how much scrap there is out there to be picked up, the scrap you ALREADY HAVE is useless unless u strip it & take it to the yard & get paid.
the ONLY time u can just pile up scrap is if you live out in a rural area or on a farm.
The yard in my area would reject the load if they seen all that plastic !
Dont take offense but do you want to be you tube star or scrapper......
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Originally Posted by geravega77
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Yep you got a mess, 1st rats and mice you need to keep setting traps even when you think you have got them all, there are babies that will come out and the cycle will start all over again. Get rid off all your steel even some items that you were goanna break down more like vacuums, ceiling fans, printers and such. Same for your aluminum you were goanna break down in order to get clean alum price, sell as dirty aluminum and move on. Separate your piles better as you are brining in the stuff. Use tubs or other containers for your insulated wire same thing goes there sell as insulated vs. stripping it. I separate my steel into prepared, clean sheet iron, unprepared and shred, but I don not generally clean or breakdown the item just put it as in the pile and when I have enough of that type of steel take it in. So you will be getting rid of your shred steel almost every week. Good luck.
Also get containers for your yard sale items, I even put a price sticker on the item and add it to the sale bins, that way when its yard sale time you are ready to go. After the sale what did not sell take to the scrap yard or donate the item, as you will be getting more stuff. If you are going to do craigslist or ebay you will need to keep that stuff separate in your shed or house so you can get at it. What you cant sell there add to yard sale bin.
Yep you right I just have to clean all this mess but as scrappers we keep bringing more and the cycle continues. I guess I just have to find a better way to keep my yard clean. Thanks for the advise.Quote:
Originally Posted by msmoorad
Good point hobo I will start doing that. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by hobo finds
You can never be a youtube star making scrapping videos. I wish I could. To be a youtube star you have to make other videos that you get more audience. Only few scrappers out there that care about watching this videos.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
Then after you get it all cleaned up you can breakdown items if it makes sense money and time wise!Quote:
Originally Posted by geravega77
Don't get emotionally attached to the items you find. I've found myself clinging to items in the past saying oh I could get so much more for this or oh this is cool I'm gonna hang onto this. well those Items sat and got in the way and the hassle of having them sit around not doing nothing for no one was costing me way more than what they might have been worth. Now I hoard pretty much nothing and seem to be making way more just scrapping the stuff. Also try and find the tools you need to break stuff down as fast as it comes in. It now takes me 30 seconds to tear apart and get the wire and possibly motors out of washers and dryers where as before I'd have stuff like that sitting around forever and a day waiting to get torn apart. I just smack em with a splitting maul when they're either on my truck or on the ground at the yard. everything besides copper I now found ways to tear apart in seconds on the back of my truck or right where I found it. If you figure out ways to do that the hoarding problem you have at your house will be drastically less significant. and also get like trash cans with lids on them for your wire and copper buckets. the neighbors won't even know whats in them and all you gotta do when its full is throw the can on your truck and be on your way.
I agree where hoarding is bad. I found myself clinging to things because they were cool. If its something that I can get resale for I separate it and when its slow I list it. But I have buckets of mild steel and stuff that I swear one day I will use but in reality it just needs to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScrapmanIndustries
Also as stuff sits around it starts to get dirty and gross. So even though you had the intentions of selling that washer(Or whatever) after a month outside its just scrap.
I also breakdown microwaves when I get them so I can fill them up with shred and other small steel items, and if I get milk crates I bring them back and put them behind a food store as I have enough of them and don't need to store more of them! I have even found the totes that the post office gives you when you have a lot of mail I guess, those I just leave by my mailbox and the postman takes it! Show a video of the area after you got it back to normal and let us know how many loads of stuff you took to the scrap yard! And you have to figure out what you are doing with all the bikes you have....
Yes and No...'Scrapper Girl' will always be a star in my eyes...:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by geravega77
i used to do this all the time. im in the country so no problems with nieghbors. my problem was with the wife she didnt like the yard looking cluttered all 20 acres. i always had the i could get more for it later excuse. 1 day i came home to 3 big boxes she ordered my a small garden shed, said i could keep anything that fit in it without being an eyesore. The rest is history, theres alot more money when you just strip and turnaround. P.S. she dosent mind all the extra beer i buy with the extra money when the property is clean. P.S. I really like beer. lol
Let me just say that I will probably get banned for saying what I am going to say.
I clicked on the video and watched about 15 or 20 seconds of the video. The first mention of having to set mouse traps I clicked off.
At the start of the video you showed the front of the house. I don't know where you are located but the house in the video would be at least a $200,000 house where I am from.
Get off your a** and clean your property up.
I will agree that it seems you want to be a YouTube star. Clean your property up.
I don't think you got my point........I was basically trying to say put the camera down and get to workQuote:
Originally Posted by geravega77
You know what ou are 100% correct on this one. I might make a video on what you telling me good ideas buddy.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScrapmanIndustries
Then why you didn't say that in the first place. �� instead of playing riddles. But yeah you right I need to get busy and clean this mess is out of control and I'm getting tire of looking at it. This weekend I was outside separating everything. Hopefully I can make a video when everything is all clean. Thanks for your support.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
Lol I take no offense I have hard core skin but yes I totally agree time to get bussssssssy and clean up. Thanks to all of your for your encouragement. Going to get motivated and get it done. :recycle: >:)Quote:
Originally Posted by eastky
of course scrapper girls dressing sexy like her will always be stars but ugly guys like us will never make it lol ;( :oQuote:
Originally Posted by DiamondN
You seem like a nice family man so didn't wanna hurt your feelings.........I watched another of your videos and you said you were out looking for more scrap because you were bored.........True breaking down scrap is boring but is more profitable than wasting gas looking for more when you already have plenty........I turn on sports talk radio and just go to work........Do what you wish but personally I wouldn't be posting pictures of an illegal operation going on behind my house....Your house is not zoned for commercial scrap processing and you could be fined heavily for many different violations you have there.........Good luck and wish you the bestQuote:
Originally Posted by geravega77
Thanks buddy for watching out. My goal is to get rid of all this scrap by this week. And clean my mess so this post has help a lot to get motivate. Sometimes that is all we need in life just a little push.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
First off, good for you geravega, getting out there in your free time and bringing even more income into your household. A lot of lumps just come home from a day behind a computer and crack open a beer to spend their nights in front of the idiot box. You're a go-getter and that's a good thing.
That said, I've been in your exact position before. I live in Houston, and if your area of Texas is anything like Houston--and it is--you need to get that cleaned up ASAP.
Let me tell you, it only takes one petty neighbor to call Code Enforcement and then you're in for a real treat. I have dealt with Code before, they have a tremendous amount of power, and boy do they enjoy wielding it. They have no sympathy for scrappers in particular. The Code Enforcement officers are the types of guys that spend their weekends trimming their hedges with scissors and a level, or scrubbing a 3 inch sized stain of power steering fluid off their driveway with a handheld brush. They're sticklers for uniformity and conformity. The fact that you have rodents running around is all the justification they need to slap you with so many fines you could wear the paper copies as a winter coat.
I don't mean to sound paranoid, I have REAL experience with Texas code enforcement officers and they mean business.
Look for a cheap, $150-200 a month storage unit with electricity and move everything in there as soon as you can. It also motivates you to turn and burn as quickly as possible because you tend to have limited space to work in, and because you're paying rent on every square foot in the unit.
Remember, it's not about what's "fair" or "right", it's about what is reality, and the reality is this sort of thing is not acceptable to most people out in the suburbs. They don't understand us. They think throwing their soda bottles in the blue bin will save the planet, that's the extent of their recycling knowledge.
I enjoy your videos and keep doing what you're doing, but do it the right way, the way that saves you from a whole mountain of trouble coming down on you.
Also after you clean up get to know your neighbors, they may even have some scrap metal for you or know someone who has some. We just got our clean up notice for bulky items and brush for curb side and with it they had another flier on how to turn in your neighbor for junk, weeds, trash and other BS! If I got a problem with a neighbor I will talk to the face to face first, then after that could go other routs about reporting the situation if nothing is done!
Thank you RagnBone I been outside all day until I get this mess clean up. Thank to all scrappers that are helping and encouring me to clean this mess.Quote:
Originally Posted by RagnBone
I been networking with them since this happen. And I have gotten a few items from them.Quote:
Originally Posted by hobo finds
Had a bobcat on top of the heavy steel pile a few weeks ago, he's been around once in a while the last few years. Going after the mice and squirrels no doubt. Since we live in the woods there's always going to be rodents, junk or none. I make sure they eat a good diet of high velocity lead on my property.
Hey if you ever get to cleaning your yard, you could donate all those bikes to https://www.spokesforfolks.org/ . How are the rats and mice? I hope you got all of them!
I tell you what if you donate that giant pile of bikes I will donate my few bikes I have around here and 2 of them have aluminum frames one from the 80's that may be worth some money!Quote:
Originally Posted by hobo finds
I am curious where this cleanup job stands at this point. Also, I noticed a nice two-car garage that could be used as a potential place to store scrap without upsetting the neighbors.
I was wondering the other day what happened to this guy so I checked out his youtube channel. It appears he's spending a lot of time cranking out videos and very little time taking care of his problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by recyclersteve
... and the hoard has grown. From the first video posted on the OP until the one he posted on his channel from a week ago.. the mass has gotten bigger and worse. If his neighbors were mad last year, they have to be FUMING now!
All the videos say something to the effect of "Well this is what you have to deal with as a scrapper." Not true, My stuff comes in, gets broken down and is gone ASAP. I've never had to store stuff outside (except a car on a trailer- and those were gutted and gone in 48 hours) I've never had mice, or rats, or roaches, or bugs. This isn't "The way it is" these video's should be titled "How NOT to be a recycler" or "Don't be like me.. I have no idea what I'm doing!"
Wheat from chaff
Churn and Burn
First in First Out
Whatever you want to call it, but this isn't recycling, this is Sanford and Sons!
Nothing wrong with your yard, just change the zoning.Quote:
Originally Posted by geravega77
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Originally Posted by hobo finds
That's the ringtone on my wife's phone when I call her. :lol:
Hi sir, I would like to reccommend you keep the plastic tubs of any dishwashers you find. As a small hobbyist scrapper, I would utilize about five of these in a row. The first one is shred, the second tub is for unprocessed small appliances, electronics, fixtures etc.. it was for the stuff I need to tear apart. Second tub was aluminum cast, then sheet aluminum, last tub for wire. I then use milk crates for heavy items, like motors, lead batteries, ballasts and transformers. Its not exactly easy to lift a dishwasher full of motors into the truck for a haul.
The yard is not as bad as it look honestly, I have actually cleaned up much worse when renters leave a house. If you are in a large enough municipality, a custom bike shop will pay you better than scrap for an aluminum/alloy bike frame. My eight year old bike has finally been through enough and needs replacing. The frame is still great though for anybody who builds bikes. So I am stripping it down to the frame and seeing what I get for that.
Dishwasher tubs are a great sturdy storage option, especially for lighter density items like aluminum. I use one for shred simply for the fact that with all the air space in between it usually is still manageable for lifting into the truck, as long as I use my dolly.
I don't scrap full time like I was because now I have a full time job. But I still pickup escrap when I see it, and the occasional tube tv I will bust out my drill and strip it out in under a minute.