So, my brother works for a lawn equipment place. He said they have mucho scrap sitting around and the guy that used to buy the scrap (he had a scale in his truck) hasn't come around any more. I don't know how much a lb. he paid for it but he paid straight steel price for it all (riding mowers, decks, etc.)

Anyways, he talked to his boss about my doing it for them now. However, with not having a scale in my truck, the guy would have to trust that I'd give him the money after I broke it all down and got the weights to give him his percentage. I figure if I loaded a couple mowers on my trailer at a time and filled my truck with *only* steel items I could turn and burn a day at a time and return with his percentage and a copy of the ticket weights. I could move a couple loads a day this way for him and this also lets him get to know me and see that I am trustworthy.



Where the problem comes in is trying to guess aluminum deck weights. I'd have to take my laptop with me and look them up if possible and give a guesstimated price for them if I didn't get them broke down that day - some of those just take some time you know? He'd have to trust my giving him steel weight price for them once I get them broke down and weights on what I turn in. I DO know of a scale at a place in between us that sells gravel and mulch but I do not know if they would let someone come in off the street loaded with mowers and weigh me. I'd also have to get an empty weight first. Do those places do that for people does anyone know?

Now, my brother told me that the first load is going to be 80/20 in HIS (owners) favor because there are 1 or 2 loads he already paid his mechanics to break down and wants the stuff gone and the money for it. After that is removed it would be 80/20 in MY favor at steel price for everything else he is willing to part with.

I haven't gone yet to see how much he has or wants gone, I am going on Thursday to talk to him. He wants someone he can rely on. I am a little mmmm.....suspicious about that first load in his favor thing though, I would basically only be making my gas money back pretty much and maybe even lose a bit after taxes are figured in.


My questions:

1) Would the 80/20 HIS favor 1st run thing turn YOU off from this job? Would it depend on supply of future loads? Do you feel that is fair of him to ask or would you look at it as a ...''test'' of workmanship/reliabilty and overlook the off putting feeling it gives you at first?

2) Do gravel/mulch places offer weight options for someone like this? Has anyone ever done that before? Even if they charged me to weigh (no clue lol) it would still be worth it I think in the long run if supply is guaranteed and plentiful.