No other place pays good. Scrap as whole is way down.
Hauled some scrap lately
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No other place pays good. Scrap as whole is way down.
When i was still working if it was odds and ends of pipe working in the city or boiler pieces scrap guys in old truck or car would stop by and take it all. Copper and wire gave that to a apprentice.
It's not worth my time to take scrap metal in for pay, but I hate to throw it out, so instead but it out in the back lane in a cardboard box marked SCRAP METAL.
The private scrap collectors always pick it up, typically the day before garbage day.
The private scrap collectors always pick it up, typically the day before garbage day.
Yeah, we decided to take MOPAR parts and some worthwhile GM muscle parts to Carlisle meet in September hoping they sell. What doesn’t will be scrap. Then probably call a metal/junk man to take rest away for us. Late father was a huge pack rat.
I hope they find a good home!
We used to scrap the old copper radiator cores. We would take all the steel off them then load them all up on a trailer. Biggest haul was about 9000 lbs .
That was my Christmas bonus.
That was my Christmas bonus.
I think that getting rid of junk over time offers the best possibility of it finding a useful home. Hang on to junk, when you die it'll get thrown into a roll off dumpster for a trip to the landfill.
Scott
Yeah after that then they see similar to what they tossed on ebay and then the crying starts.
I love those "Junk" snap on tools found at garage sales for pretty much pennys, as they were likely destined for that dumpster if they didn't sell. Huge
Or valuable heirlooms get donated to good will. A good will near my parents house in Phoenix had a large donation roughly 10 years ago. Some suspect it was left over from an estate sale. A watch collector happened to be browsing the case when he spotted what looked like a Rolex Diving watch. He picked it up for $55. Come to find out it was a real Rolex Diving watch that was worth over $3K dollars. He went back and gave them a thousand dollars and told them that they should have someone who can properly appraise items like that.
I tossed a broken Gorilla ladder. Well I mean recycled.
Back during the Great Recession I decided to haul some metal to the scrapper and see how much I could get. I had always taken the scrap to my shop, dropped it off and the weekly scrapper would take it.
We were removing a small boiler. We tossed it onto the back of my truck. At the scrap yard I had to ride through a sea of mud. Dragging it off the truck I ripped the plastic moulding off the top of my tailgate. Worse yet I threw my back out.
Got a tidy sum of $32.00 for all my mess, damage and effort. Trip to Chiropractor cost $50.00
Never again
We were removing a small boiler. We tossed it onto the back of my truck. At the scrap yard I had to ride through a sea of mud. Dragging it off the truck I ripped the plastic moulding off the top of my tailgate. Worse yet I threw my back out.
Got a tidy sum of $32.00 for all my mess, damage and effort. Trip to Chiropractor cost $50.00
Never again
Transfer station took the busted ladder and other small bits and didn’t charge me
A trip to one place netted me $7, which may have covered my gas.
A trip to a closer place resulted in a guy yelling at me for disturbing him during his break (even though I had phoned ahead and the lady I talked to said to drop off scrap metal anytime between 0800 and 1700). They gave me $3, which did not cover the cost of the plastic bucket I had left there in my haste to get away from the angry man.
So, not worth it for me - a box of scrap metal in the back lane always disappears quickly.
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Yeah a waste of time