40 yard roll off containers for scrap metal

Originally Posted by hills

You've got some really good points there. I don't know if we're under contract. I don't think so but i'll have to look into it. The main thing i'm up against is that we're a rather small transfer station and not a landfill or a dump. The whole idea is to take the material in and ship it back out ASAP.

Right now ... we must be pushing at least 30 tons of trash & demolition material a week. There's also composting material, mixed recycling, deposit bottles, e-waste, freon units, and a swap shop thing.

Point being : I guess we're a little bit at odds with our scrap yard. Our best interests aren't quite in alignment because we don't have the available land area to store their metals for any length of time. I'll have to noodle it a bit more.

In British Columbia the disposal sites all now have scales with people paying a fee on the incoming weight, this had led to illegal dumping on both private and crown land.

Manitoba has recently installed drive on scales at two of the local landfills I frequently visit in search of treasures, I suspect this added cost will lead to illegal dumping.

A woman pastor I had met during the Erickson estate clean up, contacted me a couple of weeks ago to survey a house she is about to demolish to make way for a multiple dwelling. She had already owned a lot beside Danny the deceased, then purchased Dan's lot from his estate and now the other lot next to the one she already owns.

It was on the most recent lot she had purchased that had an old house on it, the landfill in Erickson no longer accepts building demolition , which now has to to trucked to Onanole and the incoming material has to be certified free of asbestos.

What I found was a piece of linoleum laid down in the small sun room, not even glued to the floor.



Danny who's estate I did the clean up, had owned five property's four of which were in town the rural farm posed a problem as there were some burned out vehicles along with other metals the combined lot would not have covered the cost of bringing in equipment and having to pay for the scrap.

After conferring with the executor who lives in London Ontario that I thought it best to have the scrap yard i was dealing with for the town lots to just take the farm scrap without expecting any money. She agreed as it was her intent to sell the farm and town lots.

A fifth property of the deceased was located in Waskada, the house was a tear down. The floors either missing or sagging, Debby had the property listed with a realitor for a year. No buyer interest, at this time I had suggested she voluntarily return the lot to the municipality as there was no sense to keep paying tax on the lot.

In addition some of the provinces larger towns have issued demolition orders to property owners that have buildings considered a hazard or unsightly.

Much to my surprise a few months ago Debby sent me $500.00 as a gratuity,

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Originally Posted by alloy2

In British Columbia the disposal sites all now have scales with people paying a fee on the incoming weight, this had led to illegal dumping on both private and crown land.

Manitoba has recently installed drive on scales at two of the local landfills I frequently visit in search of treasures, I suspect this added cost will lead to illegal dumping.

A woman pastor I had met during the Erickson estate clean up, contacted me a couple of weeks ago to survey a house she is about to demolish to make way for a multiple dwelling. She had already owned a lot beside Danny the deceased, then purchased Dan's lot from his estate and now the other lot next to the one she already owns.

It was on the most recent lot she had purchased that had an old house on it, the landfill in Erickson no longer accepts building demolition , which now has to to trucked to Onanole and the incoming material has to be certified free of asbestos.

What I found was a piece of linoleum laid down in the small sun room, not even glued to the floor.

Danny who's estate I did the clean up, had owned five property's four of which were in town the rural farm posed a problem as there were some burned out vehicles along with other metals the combined lot would not have covered the cost of bringing in equipment and having to pay for the scrap.

After conferring with the executor who lives in London Ontario that I thought it best to have the scrap yard i was dealing with for the town lots to just take the farm scrap without expecting any money. She agreed as it was her intent to sell the farm and town lots.

A fifth property of the deceased was located in Waskada, the house was a tear down. The floors either missing or sagging, Debby had the property listed with a realitor for a year. No buyer interest, at this time I had suggested she voluntarily return the lot to the municipality as there was no sense to keep paying tax on the lot.

In addition some of the provinces larger towns have issued demolition orders to property owners that have buildings considered a hazard or unsightly.

Much to my surprise a few months ago Debby sent me $500.00 as a gratuity,

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Many of the transfer stations here in Maine have drive on weigh scales as well. There are some places where the customer pays for everything ... including tossing a bag of trash. It varies from town to town. Our transfer station is more of the traditional model where the cost to operate the place comes out of the local property and excise taxes. We try to keep it rather loose & easy for people to use the place. The folks that don't have much money are just as good as the man with lots of cash in his pocket. I think it works out to be less expensive to operate a transfer station this way. Labor costs aren't that high. It's just me and a part timer that works one day a week.

The thing with us is that we aren't a full service transfer station. We used to accept demolition debris into our burn pile but the DEP shut that down about three years ago when i first started the job. It's probably just as well. I know of a few local transfer station attendants that died of cancer. I think it was at least partly due to working around all of that toxic smoke for all those years. Nowadays ... i refer our demolition debris customers to a larger full service transfer station 40 miles away. They're equipped with scales and the customer pays by the pound.

We're limited in what we can do because we only have about two acres of land area to work with. There's no room to expand so we have to make the best use of what we do have to work with. It's worked out pretty well since i came on. We used to have these great big piles of stuff taking up a lot of the available space. Those have all been cleaned up. Direct loading everything we do take into open top roll off containers keeps it from accumulating. The e-waste used to be loaded piece by piece onto the truck. I shifted us over to a gaylord system last year. Now it doesn't take any time at all to have it loaded and on it's way.

There are a lot of moving parts to our operation. My main goals are to modernize the way we do things, reduce our environmental impact, lower overall operating costs, and reduce the amount of labor it takes to run the place on a day to day basis. It seems to be working. We're well under budget for labor as compared to this time last year. The place makes a decent presentation to the public and we passed our annual DEP inspection with no problems found last month.

Now ... if i can just get that metals pile sorted and working a little more smoothly ... i'll be able to think about retiring and handing the place off to the next generation coming up through to run.