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Haven't been here in a long while. I had hip joints replaced, 1 in 2020, 1 in 2021. Nice to know that the titanium can be recycled when I'm done with them. Maybe end up in high-end golf clubs or one...

I appreciate the input from other members. A puzzling factor in the bus biz is that there is a local scrap yard that has bought batches of these buses in the past and had them flat-bedded 90 miles to...

I'm looking at bidding on some city buses for scrap. My regular yard guy always complains about the trash (plastic seats, wood floor, etc.) but he will generally pay a bit less than whatever current...

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$80/ton? Prices are better here in the midwest. I got $160/ton last month for a 4 ton load of unprepared.

Local yard uses a 3-way rim crusher that works like a log-splitter for steel wheels. Aluminum wheels are done on a regular tire machine. The tire guy (that's all he does there) does a couple hundred...

Are you experienced at demolishing buildings? What type of equipment do you have? What are you going to do with all the debris? I sure hope you are getting paid a decent amount for the job, as there...

TMI (too much information) in your ad. Customers don't need to know what current scrap prices are unless you are competing for the aluminum can market. Better to describe your services and basic...

That's $50/ton. I wouldn't put much time or effort into hauling it for that price. Take care of the regular customers and let the rest sit.

I do a LOT of business with one yard, so I'm allowed to go "shopping" there. Recent finds include a Bridgeport machine, a Harley engine and a stainless steel rolling rack unit from a dairy facility.

Still a lot of lead wheel weights out there. And lead still makes the best/cheapest bullets. Wheel weights actually have some tin, which makes a harder alloy for bullet casting. Muzzleloaders uses...

The WW2 poster "your scrap brought it down" shows a German plane going down in flames. The US government promoted the collection of rubber, metal and rags to be used as raw materials in war...

Sealed bid sale. If it was an open auction; I would have bid higher and, at the very least, taken the other guys profit out of it.

Axles and other stuff: low floor buses with MAN planetary axles....

Not that much aluminum on modern city buses. The old GM's were built like airplanes with aluminum bulkheads and stressed skin. These buses are steel tube birdcage construction. The only aluminum is...

I went to a bid opening for some 40' city buses yesterday. I purposely bid low, assuming one of the yards that I buy cut-out engines from would be a bit higher. I really don't make any money on the...

Seems like a lot of work for minimal scrap tonnage. How do you make any money on these jobs?

Good choice of trailers, OP. And, just a point of reference, a full size school bus weighs about 15K #'s without an engine. So towing with a diesel pickup/dually would be do-able. One should...

I'm sure some of my scrap has gone out of the country, so I'm also an international businessman. And it sounds a lot better than "alley entrepreneur". I say go with it.

Battery/batteries already gone. Still some good weight there. Talk to the local scrap yard. They may have someone with hauling capability. Even if you only net $100; that's $100 for a couple of phone...

We don't think of Turkey as being an industrial country but they are. Ford Transit vans and guns are a couple of things that I know of.

Scrap was a sideline to my diesel engine business, which was a sideline to my regular job, so the scrap was just a nice bonus, not a primary thing. I retired from the regular job last year and have...

I'm sure that's why the local yards put a car on top of the bin of aluminum wheels, even INSIDE the electric fence. OP might want to secure his stash somehow. Aluminum is way too attractive and easy...

In Lake Geneva Wisconsin there is a group of cabooses that were strung together and sold as condo's. They are fixed up nicely and some are rented out like hotel rooms. You can find them at "end of...

As others have said: make a small pallet. Must be under 150# to go regular FedEx. And they probably require it to be boxed or wrapped in cardboard, I assume to protect their conveyor belts. I've...

Do not contact a freight carrier directly. They have no incentive to give a good rate. Find a broker. Like insurance; the brokers rep for a number of freight companies, which compete for their...