Page 3 of 4 FirstFirst 1234 LastLast
Results 41 to 60 of 61

Anybody go to the dump? - Page 3

| Scrap Metal Spots
  1. #41
    Mechanic688's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor



    Member since
    Mar 2011
    Location
    Warsaw , Ind. In the heart of the lakes, and down the street from the hotel where Al Capone stayed.
    Posts
    9,568
    Thanks
    11,247
    Thanked 10,730 Times in 4,728 Posts
    http://www.firstamericancore.com/
    http://www.pmrrefiner.com/
    http://www.midsouthrecycling.com/
    http://www.adctexas.com/
    That may at least give you some prices you were looking for,,,

    P & M Recycling - Specializing in E-Waste Recycling.
    If you enjoy your freedom, thank a vet.


  2. #42
    SMF Badges of Honor

    Member since
    May 2011
    Posts
    2
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
    they will give you there ac units

  3. #43
    Resourceful's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor


    Member since
    Jan 2012
    Location
    BC Canada
    Posts
    60
    Thanks
    91
    Thanked 34 Times in 17 Posts
    There are two dumps within a half hour drive from me. One is a landfill that has a metal pile that was awesome for high grading. I say was because now they have a chain link fence with barbed wire and a weigh scale and don't even think about scavenging. There is a "share shed on the place where you can leave items for free that someone else could use. You can take stuff from there for free. I don't think it matters much if I take an old tv or computer tower to scrap as opposed to actually using it as is. The other dump is a transfer station with a metal area and a share shed. There are old faded no scavenging signs but the scrappers don't pay any heed since there are almost never any officials around. I suppose one day this one will be off limits as well, but for now it pays to stop in for a look.

  4. #44
    Scrapette's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor

    Member since
    Oct 2011
    Location
    Kentucky USA
    Posts
    942
    Thanks
    2,392
    Thanked 924 Times in 414 Posts
    Quote Originally Posted by TheHoss View Post
    Hmm. I been to the Pickle Butte dump once. Talk about in the freakin HICK STICKS. I thought about scavenging a bit when i was there, but i was the only one there, and all the employees looked just bored enough to get me haha.

    Yeah, i go to the hidden springs dump. Pickle Butte is WAYYYYYYYYY out there. Plus you have to be a Canyon County resident to go there i think.
    [/B]


    Pickle Butte? LOL. I thought I lived in Hooterville! Let me change that to Mayberry - Hooterville is going to get too many weird comments! LOL
    Success consists of going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm...... Churchill

  5. The Following 2 Users say Thank You for This Post by Scrapette:


  6. #45
    injunjoe's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor



    Member since
    Jan 2011
    Location
    Central, FL
    Posts
    1,309
    Thanks
    1,249
    Thanked 1,194 Times in 594 Posts
    Hooterville did someone say hooters?

    Like these? What a nice pair!

    When the white man discovered this country Indians were running it
    no taxes, no debt, women did all the work.
    White man thought he could improve on a system like this. - Old Cherokee saying

    I did not surrender, they took my horse and made him surrender. - Lone Watie

  7. The Following 4 Users say Thank You for This Post by injunjoe:


  8. #46
    SMF Badges of Honor


    Member since
    Dec 2011
    Location
    Hutchinson, KS
    Posts
    194
    Thanks
    133
    Thanked 120 Times in 60 Posts
    Quote Originally Posted by Scrap man View Post
    My dump has dumpsters they put metal in. They don't allow people to scavenge or even get out of their vehicles to do more than unload
    Same here, can't even get out of the vehicle and walk around =( and always someone watching.

  9. #47
    SMF Badges of Honor


    Member since
    Aug 2011
    Location
    Green Bay, WI
    Posts
    377
    Thanks
    38
    Thanked 162 Times in 77 Posts
    The city of Green Bay has a dump somewhere, i've never gone to it. But, the little suburb I live in, has a dump cite by the city garage...4 areas, 2 for garbage, one for metal, one for freon, with proper tag from the city. I scavenge there all the time, hell i've picked up furniture that I have in my house. The area is frequented by scrappers, so the metal area is usually empty. I went by one time over summer and there was a guy unloading some drywall from a truck, and a scrapper pulling door knobs and other assorted things. I started looking around to see what I could find, and overheard the scrapper telling the other guy "Yeah, they really don't like people coming here taking stuff. They scrap all the metal themselves." I'm thinking he was full of ****, I've gone there in the middle of the day, and the workers just nod at you, or act like you're not even there. I was there early one time (640 AM, not supposed to come by until 700) and one of the office workers drove in and asked what I was doing. I said scavanging. He said if i wanted to dig more I had to leave for 20 minutes, so I didn't piss off any of the people who lived in the area by making noise. I obliged. The place is covered with cameras, and i've never had the cops show up at my house...so i can't be breaking the law that bad.

  10. #48
    BurlyGuys's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor


    Member since
    Feb 2012
    Location
    Waterford Michigan
    Posts
    1,591
    Thanks
    1,109
    Thanked 1,620 Times in 635 Posts
    My experience with this has been interesting. At my transfer station they charge me by weight. They don't have any signs that say no scavenging, so I do. When I pick something up that is metal I get to double dip. I am gaining metal to recycle but now my truck weighs more when I weigh out. So far no one has said anything and I have been doing this for about 2 years.

  11. The Following User Says Thank You to BurlyGuys for This Post:


  12. #49

    Member since
    Jan 2012
    Location
    daytona
    Posts
    53
    Thanks
    70
    Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts
    I just bought a yearly dump pass to my local dump. They have a huge box for recyclable electronics and also a huge 3 story pile of random junk. Large signs saying "no scavenging" though.

  13. #50
    little726's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor


    Member since
    Jul 2011
    Posts
    74
    Thanks
    1,377
    Thanked 41 Times in 30 Posts
    At my local transfer station, I noticed a huge pallet full of junked moniters and computers. I asked the woman in charge if I could have a couple of the moniters. She told me they aren't any good because the cables have been cut. I said, that's ok. I want to tear them apart for the scrap. Her reply was, "Oh, no, not if your're going to make a profit off them."

    So much for my trip to the dump!

  14. #51
    happyscraper's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor


    Member since
    Feb 2012
    Location
    spring hill,fl
    Posts
    2,864
    Thanks
    350
    Thanked 1,371 Times in 847 Posts
    When I was about 4or5 yrs. old we lived on a 7 acer farm and we had our own dump. A big hole in the ground that we threw all our trash in. I wish I could go back there and dig it up. No telling what might be there.

  15. The Following User Says Thank You to happyscraper for This Post:


  16. #52
    SMF Badges of Honor

    Member since
    Sep 2011
    Location
    Rochester NY
    Posts
    615
    Thanks
    19
    Thanked 526 Times in 238 Posts
    Quote Originally Posted by Dumpster-Dee View Post
    and if you don't get permission you can also get a rear end full of buckshot !
    Or one with a protein shot, from your new cell mate bubba.

    http://reclaimtech.com/
    We pay you to recycle!

  17. #53
    TrashPickingAusKid2's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor


    Member since
    Dec 2011
    Posts
    298
    Thanks
    77
    Thanked 82 Times in 53 Posts
    in my area we cant pick through the dump, but i picked a little stereo from there and they didnt know i did it!
    Australian born and raised, Guitar player and TV Collector

  18. #54
    redcrossnj's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor


    Member since
    Oct 2011
    Location
    central jersey
    Posts
    465
    Thanks
    28
    Thanked 243 Times in 143 Posts
    Russerected this ancient thread . i have had a negative expierience at my town dump two summers ago, i just about lost my cool lol. I may go back because they have a " swap shop", all non metal items. Could say im getting some christmas presents for somebody special ( ebay). adapt and overcome.

  19. #55
    diver43164990's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor

    Member since
    Jul 2012
    Posts
    8
    Thanks
    11
    Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts
    Quote Originally Posted by IdahoScrapper View Post
    Know what kills me TheHoss?

    On several occasions, as I am leaving the dump, I see someone coming in with a dryer, washer, what have you. If they came out of Nampa, they likely had to pass at least one scrap yard, if not 2-3 yards.

    Drop it off in town, make a few bucks, or drive allll the way out to Pickle Butte, spend gas money AND pay for the "privilege" to dump metal. Granted they have actual trash as well, but you get what I am saying.

    People are odd.
    I think a lot of people just don't realize how things work--when I first started going to the scrapyard I use now it was to drop off bales of rusty wire I never asked for money (didn't weigh much anyway but I thought I was being smart by going to a nearby place that would recycle the metal and not charge me anything for getting rid of it [it would have been a nightmare to put in the trash]).

  20. #56
    SMF Badges of Honor

    Member since
    Jul 2015
    Location
    Palm Coast, FL
    Posts
    55
    Thanks
    94
    Thanked 31 Times in 12 Posts
    Years ago, my dump in Prince William County, Virginia used to have a to-good-to-be-true area. You could pull up and unload anything there that was not ready for trash but could still be used. As I remember it, homeless people, and I mean lots of them, would come right up to your truck and they would unload what you told them was for the t-g-t-b-t area. It was nice and all, but I just can't imagine that is still going on. That was maybe 25 years ago.

    Our dump also had an area, now this was 25 years ago, were you could pick up a scrappable appliance, such as an air conditioner or refrigerator. My dad used to pick them up bring them to the house and scrap them with my older brother. He made pretty good money, I mean sometimes several hundred, a month.

    The dump is still open today, and is on Hoadly Road, I think. When I was little my mom would back up our station wagon to the huge cliff that had no guardrails (LOL), and we'd toss the trash into the huge pit. I loved it man. It freaked me out, it looked like we'd fall overboard when backing up. In the pit there would be like 4-6 giant crushing trucks just running over all the trash compacting it. Of course the trucks, perspective wise, were the size of match box cars - this cliff had to be 40-50 feet. It was sooo cool to see that as a kid. Now, the dump is a giant mountain, with not one but two peaks. It really makes you humble when you get to see that change. We throw so much away. It's sad. You know, money can't buy everything, but we try to.

  21. #57
    ChildhoodDream's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor



    Member since
    Mar 2015
    Location
    Minnesota
    Posts
    1,276
    Thanks
    1,664
    Thanked 994 Times in 527 Posts
    these days the lawyers have businesses and local governments a bit nervous about people getting injured on their properties if they allow others to put themselves in harms way.

    but it never hurts to ask if it seems wise.

  22. #58
    EuroRecycling's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor


    Member since
    Jan 2018
    Location
    Cluj Napoca, Romania
    Posts
    51
    Thanks
    8
    Thanked 51 Times in 26 Posts
    SCRAPYARD!
    My scrapyard allows people to buy from them by the KG.
    It is fun! Take a look!
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...8UqvH8EKkCNac0

  23. #59
    EuroRecycling's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor


    Member since
    Jan 2018
    Location
    Cluj Napoca, Romania
    Posts
    51
    Thanks
    8
    Thanked 51 Times in 26 Posts

  24. #60
    AladdinsDevon's Avatar
    SMF Badges of Honor

    Member since
    Apr 2019
    Location
    Exeter, Devon
    Posts
    1
    Thanks
    1
    Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post
    Here in the UK, most dumps have a 'Resale Area' where you can buy furniture, sports equipment, bicycles, tools, petrol mowers, DVDs and household items - all at next-to-nothing prices. I always grab a few stainless steel pans, brass candlesticks, that sort of thing - generally you can get it for about half the scrap value. The only thing they can't sell you is electrical items.

  25. The Following 2 Users say Thank You for This Post by AladdinsDevon:



  26. Similar threads on the Scrap Metal Forum

    1. Scrap Metal Dump
      By street_sweeper in forum Scrap Metal Spots
      Replies: 9
      Last Post: 10-22-2012, 11:04 PM
    2. Highest Dump Fee
      By GeorgeB in forum Off Topic Discussions
      Replies: 12
      Last Post: 10-19-2012, 03:56 PM
    3. today's dump find
      By taterjuice in forum A Day in the Life of a Scrapper
      Replies: 2
      Last Post: 07-21-2012, 05:33 PM
    4. My City's recycling / dump...
      By ginj25 in forum Scrap Metal Spots
      Replies: 12
      Last Post: 01-16-2012, 03:13 PM
    5. Put A Sign By The Dump!
      By Rusty Nuts in forum Scrap Metal Spots
      Replies: 23
      Last Post: 02-03-2011, 07:12 AM

Page 3 of 4 FirstFirst 1234 LastLast

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

 
Browse the Most Recent Threads
On SMF In THIS CATEGORY.





OR

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  

The Scrap Metal Forum

    The Scrap Metal Forum is the #1 scrap metal recycling community in the world. Here we talk about the scrap metal business, making money, where we connect with other scrappers, scrap yards and more.

SMF on Facebook and Twitter

Twitter Facebook