Depends on what you want to scrap. My situation is similar. The local scrappie is pretty tight with his payouts and not worth even talking to.
I live in the sticks and accumulate copper/brass/higher valued scrap to take in about once a year. It is compact and a ton in a back of a pickup is easy to deal with.
With the lower-valued stuff, like shred, I have been considering a big truck's worth of stuff (50,000lbs or so) and then shopping it out to scrappies who have the self loaders and 20'/40' scrap boxes. Another alternative is to get a price from a trucking firm who would haul it for you to Seattle (or wherever). You might have to hire someone with a machine to load it, but something like an excavator with a thumb would do the job in short order and could punch the bulkier stuff down to size. Another idea for accumulation would be to stuff steel barrels with scrap, processing it with a zipcut to cut bulky stuff down to size. Then when time comes to load, you would have a bunch of barrels to load which would be a lot less messy. Barrels could potentially go on a flatdeck which is easier to find (less costly) than a big trailer with 4' sides.
I can get waste steel barrels from the local Esso bulk plant.
The downside is that you need some room to accumulate the stuff where no one is gonna b*tch about the "mess".
But, as 1956 suggested, you may be in a scrap "heaven" if you can come up with a way to get the volumes to ship cheaply!!
Jon.
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