Hi Faust and welcome to the forum. I'm drooling over your opportunity on grandpa's farm. That's exactly what I do and I love it. I don't know what equipment you have if any but you sure need some if you want to continue on in that type of business. As a semi-retired farmer myself, I had some equipment to start with.
Typically, I travel to a site with my pickup stocked with a generator, acetylene torch, hand tools, air compressor, chains and come-alongs (cable binders) and pulling a bumper hitch 20ft trailer and a 60 HP skidsteer. I then analyze the product (not junk ....LOL) to be taken and start by putting some smaller tin, barrels etc. on the bottom with the intent to add heavier stuff on top to hold it down. Cattle panels or gates are good for the bottom of the load OR the top as they are good for holding the load down also. Stock tanks can be filled with smaller items and put on the bottom of loads. Very important is to keep the load LEVEL as you're loading and you 'll get a lot more on that way. The skidsteer is a must as I use it to tear machinery out of windbreaks, bend or smash panels that are unruly and I've used it to rip the roofs off small grainbins and then knock them over and fold them like a tarp. If you have a tractor and loader available, that will work to a degree but will be slower.
The DOT locally frowns on the yellow straps to tie down loads as they explained to me that the jiggle of the load will cut them. I use chains exclusively and after you're loaded and drive a mile or two, stop and retighten the binders. Two or three on a 20ft load is always enough.
Seperate any copper or brass as that makes a good bonus in the end. Personally I don't spend much time with aluminum as it's always dirty (mixed with ferrous scrap) and takes too much time to process. Vehicles are a favorite as my yards take them "as is" altho I remove the cat converters, batteries and sometimes the radiators if they're copper. I stack a light vehicle on top of a heavy one.
Beware Faust.....the game is addictive. You'll LOVE IT !!! Let us know how it goes and if you have any more questions, feel free to ask. There are others on this forum much wiser than myself so you're in good hands. Mr. Patriot is busy dismantling a power plant in Omaha, but he's had maybe more experience at this than I have.
This load had two stocktanks filled with residue from a burned out trailer house, the complete frame from the trailerhouse, a wagon gear, a 30 ft hay rake and part of a grain bin on top. Weighed 3.5 ton. Sold at $130 per ton.
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