Hello again,

Me and my brother (17 & 18) own a metal recovery business that does local lots as well as farm lots.

We live 40 minutes from a huge city in a ruralish community and also collect out by my families farm which is about 4 hours away and is really rural.

Our current equipment includes a F150, a single axle aluminium trailer, and a dual 3500# axle dump trailer (We bought a dump because our yard doesn't have a magnet or grapple). We also have a F350 one ton and a dual 7000# trailer that we can borrow from family in exchange for keeping in running and doing other odd jobs.

Out by our farm there is a farm with 200-300 tons of metal. This was purchased from the owner by another company. They supposedly are paying $25/ton for it and driving it to a yard that is a hour and a half away and only getting around $60/ton. Our thought was this, we get $220/ton for prepared at our yard. What if we bought the steel from this other scrapper, had him load it right on our trailer, pay him $60/ton (he makes more because he doesn't have to drive it), pay $80 in fuel, sell t for $220 and profit $80/ton?



Thoughts?