Got a call from a plumbing company saying he had about 75 dishwashers he wanted to get rid of. I told him I could pick them up, but it would take several trips, even with my 16 ft flatbed. He said no problem. He slightly underestimated, there is about 125 dishwashers. about 20% have metal bodies, the rest plastic. Along with about a dozen other appliances. The yards around me do not like to take the dishwashers with the plastic bodies as they do not like paying for all that plastic, and I do not blame them. Luckily I have 7 1/2 acres to store them as I disassemble them. Going to get a nice size batch of brass, stainless steel, electric motors and #2 insulated out of this. Plus will help me keep busy when I have nothing else to do. A couple of people have asked me what I am going to do with all the plastic bodies. I tell them I use them to put store larger pieces of plastic and other stuff I remove from other scrap I disassemble, then when it is full I load the whole thing in my truck and throw it in a dumpster. I also use several right now to store wood that I am going to burn during the winter. Helps to keep them off of the wet ground when it rains, and help to keep them from getting scattered during the year.
On top of scrapping the metal, I am going to keep all the better racks from the dishwashers and see if I can do something with them on ebay.
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