cleanin up

**Libertytow** · 10-08-2012, 12:06 PM

cashed in some metals

copper

636 lbs

brass

178 lbs

acr clean

alot forgot exact # but this was the only pic i took

cats $5350 worth

a clean paid for shop priceless

**greytruck** · 10-08-2012, 12:30 PM

Nice load, Lots of copper there dude!

**scrapperben** · 10-08-2012, 01:16 PM

beautiful.

in complete contrast I took a test load in to the scrap yard yesterday, just to see how much I could fit in and how it all works,
so it was 333 kg of scrap steel I had packed into the hatch, mostly towers filled with stuff, got 12c kg, or $120 tonne, which is like 5c lb. t'was bit of a shock but am pleased with non ferrous prices so today's load will be more rewarding.
he did tell me of other yards paying $200 tonne so i'll just have to split my yards.

I got my paper, parked the car and strutted over to the cashiers office, $39.96 was the princely sum, thinking it might be rounded off to $40, nope, I got $34.40, they docked me $5.56 for waste disposal levy & interim carbon price whatever that is, $15.20 per tonne.
you know it's funny how steel prices seem to be low yet I don't think there's ever been so many steel yards advertising around here,
it's like they can't get enough of it, yet paying little for hand delivered steel, they should pick it up for that price.

so the happy meals are on you?

**Libertytow** · 10-08-2012, 05:32 PM

hmm surprised metal is that low down under

**scrapperben** · 10-09-2012, 01:17 AM

Today was good, actually great.

I found out that I wasted my time totally cutting plug ends off cables, and cutting all the little connectors
from wires, I even cut off every little cable tie too.
they don't mind the plugs at all, and I still don't know which wires are aluminium that come from pc's & tv's,
that don't matter either so I won't even bother working it out, the guy looked at my wire, picked some up
and said, nah, this is good stuff mate, no worries, said something about 40% and said $2.30 kg.. cool.
I had 127kg of wires and got $292.10

oh and no tax, found out that tax is just for steel.

This place is sims metal, real big place been there for 50 years, just around the corner from me, so I thought i'd scoot back home, pick up my copper from the yolks I took out, just the moulded pieces and see what I get.
he looked and said, mate what you got there is burnt copper, I said nah mate, I didn't burn these, but that's just what they class them as because of the laquer, even the bright ones do have some laquer to hold them in that shape.
but that's not a drama at all, millberry is $6.30 kg and burnt copper is $5.75 kg so not much difference, had 22 kg's or 48 lb's so $126.50 yeah so about $415 today for my wire and yolk copper.

it's got me excited, now that I have seen for myself there's good money in this stuff, and it's all free except my time, some blood, bruises and a sore back.

I know sims are gigantic and it's obvious they make squillions from this but there is quite a bit of paperwork they fill out ect,
there was a guy in front of me with a box of aluminium cans, then saw him at the cashiers and he got $4
so all that paperwork needed to be done for $4 of aluminium, he was treated just as well as the b'double driver on the weighbridge with 20 tonnes of steel, I thought that was great.