Originally Posted by
blackgold12
Good points Hills. I used to get $50.00 a tank regardless of condition the company that purchased them set them out for waste oil collection but times have changed.
The neighbor bought the house then remodeled, tank would have to transit over new floor covering. exit is not a direct shot to the outdoors.
Regarding the buss, he has to figure out how long the job will take to do, how many trips will be made to dispose of those bulky seats, is the scrap yard going to accept all the upholstery and filler, maybe even some ply-board backing.
A noob not used to using zip disks can break a few even a large chunk out of it will render it unusable due to vibration, all this will add to the cost of the project.
A sawzall would perhaps be a better choice for cutting the small diameter pipe from which the seat frames are possibly made from, but not having had the chance to pre inspect the job to many unknowns to give a qualified answer.
Long ago I had scraped an English double decker buss and all the seats and other pipe uses for holds for an over loaded buss were made from stainless steel and my torch was useless.
To sever the pipe used my welder set at a high amperage to burn through the pipe.
If our new scrapper has access to a plasma he could have this job done in an hour.
Each job we take on has it own set of peculiarities.
No customer like to hear an hourly rate, figure out your time and consumables cost then give a flat rate
If it were me, I would advise the customer that he could advertise the seats etc as free scrap must remove, with the current price of scrap not likely the phone will be ringing off the hook.
Or advise the customer he could put the job up for tender, just bear on mind that the winner of a tender in most cases must submit a performance bond. The bond is ti assure the job is completed per agreement.
Years ago when I was doing appliance repair and a dollar still had some value my hourly rate was $30.00, service charge was the same rate but if it turned out to be something simple that could be fixed under half an hour would only charge the service charge.
Best word of mouth advertising is a happy customer.
Thanks for the advice. I'm definitely leaning to a flat rate. And my hope is it cut everything and drive the bus to the yard and throw everything out into the pile. Figure it's be easier than trying to unload the bus, load into my truck, then do many rounds. I'm going to go check the bus out as soon as it gets to down. If everything is drilled down I'll do it for cheap. Depending on how much cutting is needed, thats where things will get pricey.
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