Any more guesses on the weight? It might be hard to tell, but in the trailer they are stacked 2 high.
Ill give other people a chance to guess. I'll give the answer in an hour.
Any more guesses on the weight? It might be hard to tell, but in the trailer they are stacked 2 high.
Ill give other people a chance to guess. I'll give the answer in an hour.
Boooo! you guys are lame. :mad:
3340 lbs.
I would have drastically under bid . Glad it was over my expectation and here is my messQuote:
Originally Posted by ParkerFlyer4
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Oh almost forgot here is my shop supervisor , he never a misses a beat or a treat .
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The boss looks like a hard guy to work for.
Good size load this week. Got a lot of work ahead of me. Everything is piling up and I don't have enough time to keep up! Some would say its a good problem to have. But for me, it stresses me out not being caught up and cleaned up.
When I get a large load like this I make sure to stack same types with same types. Makes the breakdown process more efficient. You get in a rhythm and go way faster when you work on the same type. Then, if you start dragging, start a new type for a while. One thing is a break from another.
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I read this thread to find tips to organize my shed to be a good place to work. It has shown me thus.
1. I have a lot of cleaning and moving around to do.
2. I need a LOT more boxes for parts, really need to label as well.
3. Now I have a goal to how full/amount of stuff I should be breaking down one day down the road.
On a side note, with only having so much room what do you all do with larger objects? I want to stick with E-scrap as a hobby but from time to time I see larger stuff. I know my yard will only take shred if its 100+pounds, I don't want to store stuff and junk up my yard/smaller shed but can't really pass up free cash. It may end up with me breaking and turning the back corner of my yard into a "hold till full spot"
Get a small trailer to load up your shred or flatten what you can like towers and store it in the shed. I keep mine out of sight behind the barn . But a lil awning might work for you .Quote:
Originally Posted by Trickcard
What about a backyard canopy, Mine had sides I could zip down. Bug screen then I added a cheap blue tarp to the sides for when we were not working inside. Out of sight, out of mind.Quote:
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@Matelbestos: A trailer is is on the "To Get List" (small list I made with stuff to help out /speed up scrapping stuff, tools, shelfs, ect) but that is down the line. Even then parking a smallish trailer in side my back yard will eat up a good bit of it.
@Mechanic688: That could some what work. Behind my shed is were I keep my old popup camper, still pondering if I should sell not much of a camping guy, right now I'm using the small gap between my shed and chain fence to hold stuff. Got a lot of copper clad wire there right now ;( , did get a few cable/sat boxes so not a total loss.
Been lucky and found some good plastic storage bins tho (FREE) so my space is coming along a bit. Just passed up a old rusted electric smoker the other day, piss off wife with clutter or keep for a few coins. Just want to keep this a hobby but would like for it to be some what self paying.
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Just passed up a old rusted electric smoker the other day, piss off wife with clutter or keep for a few coins.
In my case my wife is the clutter collector. I have to clean up after her and the kids most of the time.
I Bought my trailer (the red one in my pics) for $800 on craiglist. I keep it parked on the side of my house and fill it with shred. Once its full I take it to the yard. Shred is the biggest bulkiest scrap so a trailer is a must for a out of home scrapper. Unless you have property and privacy.
I got 20 of these. Not sure what they are. Server switches?
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Each one had both of these boards.(front and back)
and a power supply board(not pictured)
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Those are data switches and are usually between 24 and 48 ports each but can be as small as 6 and 8 ports. I sold the boards from some last year but cannot remember how they graded them. I have a box just for data switch boards. It makes it easier when I sell them.
Thanks. I will make a data switch box as well. Would smaller, router boards fall in the same category? Like Belkin and Netgear stuff? I get a bunch of that stuff, but I have been selling the boards with my motherboards.
The board in the middle pic was for the LED lights. What grade would this be?
Some pics of my stash:
Computer stacks are old pics but good ones. All have been broken down a while ago.
CD/DVD drives to break down later.
Bunch of laptops. I HATE laptops. I will be looking for a buyer as soon as I can fill a pallet.
My hard drive tower. I've pulled all the boards, and I'm trying to decide if I want to break em down completely or sell whole......... Seems like a daunting task. There is around 750 there.
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-Another daunting task. Separate the copper from the aluminum. This is work saved for slow days.
-My motherboards in Dino Bags. Can fit about 140 lbs. in each one. My barrel full of gold plug ends. Still haven't decided what to do with these.... 5 gallon bucket with wall warts. Will pull (smash) the transformers out later.
-Power supply ends and other ends w/out gold. What do you guys do with these? are they worth saving at all?
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The non gold ends I usually sell to my local yard as copper bearing. I send off the copper/alum heatsinks with a box of motherboards which you could also do pallet wise. Hard drives and cd drives are my gravy when things are a little slow.
I'm not sure about the middle pic but yes I put the small router boards in the same box.Quote:
Originally Posted by ParkerFlyer4
None of the yards around me pay copper bearing for the plug ends. They wont even pay me dirty brass for regular wall plugs. But, He told me a while ago, that if I had a large amount they would see about buying them. So I will keep saving them for now.
I never thought about shipping the copper/ Alum rads. Not much room for profit there.... Maybe I will save up, and make a 2 or 3 pallet load, and save on trucking.
If you're shipping the laptops out whole and working, I'd recommend using a thin layer of styrofoam packing between the screen and the keyboard. A lot of the laptops on the bottom of pallets that I've seen have had screens broken from the weight.
Some buyers (Like me) will pay more for laptops that aren't damaged, and some don't care. But, packing is crucial!
I love those Dino bags also and would purchase some from you if your interested pm me. Thanks and nice sorting
I am not sure on the condition of the laptops. I Believe most are broke. I will sell them as is, as 'untested'.Quote:
Originally Posted by matador
I was considering trying to put them up for auction. Has anyone done this? Has it worked out? Pallets of roughly 100 laptops are selling between 1k -2k on my local public auctions. Going as 'untested'
This should give you an idea- they're selling with 1 bid on eBay, so it looks like a small market, but you never know until you try!
Here's the link to completed listings: Laptop Pallet | eBay
nvm.
In the appliance shop i use hollowed out dishwashers for hold in scrap compressors. It holds in loose oil and has the frame that i can loop a dolly strap through. Because 15 compressors weighs quite a bit
Very nice set up!! LOVE the magnets for bits - I will definately implement that!
Thank you for sharing!
I had a situation like scrap ALL OVER if I did not have kids , I was ready to kill myself . I was saying
Who collected all this inventory ? Oh yeah it was me !! . I have created a mountain or two umm three and the mountains are growing and segregated to separate areas and now human territory is coming back .
It is highly embarrassing getting to this point yet this is the year 2015 and times are tough & bills plentiful
Soooo I will survive & build my mountains .
Where can I get some of those bags!?! I can't find them anywhere. Thanks