So long 2013 (How did you do scrapping>)

I filled and emptied the cooler a lot. I helped save a lot of trash from ending up in our ocean, sounds, rivers, etc. Oh..an the bills are paid, dogs are fat an happy, an we're talking about a trip in the early part of the year for a vacation. An on top of all that work..I provided more then I care to count quotes, smart one liners, quirky taglines. An just guessing here on numbers but I caused over 2000 smiles, several thousands of curse words to be uttered..ah, why get into details! Lets just call it a successful year.

2014 - Expand. I need more space. Warehouse is in the future, just not sure when. I'm on premium real estate people! So I'm looking over on the mainland. Within 20 miles or so of my sandbar is bout as far as I'm looking tho. If that fails, I'll just wait on a some space here on the sandbar that is opening up closer to spring/summer.

Good luck to all in the coming year, and hopefully you met/exceeded your goals for 2013!

Big thanks as always to my fellow forum members. Without you, I'd still be doing something I hated an uneducated in the world of scrapping.

SCRAP METAL UNIVERSITY WORKED FOR ME!

Sirscrapalot - Nothing beats the common cold, but whiskey sure does put a whooping on it!

1. Rearrange my work and storage spaces
2. Pay for some part-time help (sigh)
3. Learn how to identify a dad-gum tantalum capacitor

Great year for me. I met some fantastic people on the this forum and my knowledge base tripled. I doubled my goal of aluminum cans - not a good thing, and more than doubled my goal of tonnage hauled. No trips to the emergency room, no accident reports filed, and no traffic tickets. Kids are on their own and successful, plenty of free time, and still with my wife of 29 years. Life is good.

Im new to the board. Added escrap to the business. Really enjoy the education.
Learned about it from a design point. I really think if you know how and why and master a item you will be able to much easier grade it.
Maybe bought a few million pounds of batteries. Half the normal amount. Capital issues.

That's my goal for 2014. Line up enough buying $$ to never send an account away.
Stillwater.

alot happened for me this year as well had a house fire lost everything and no insurance to cover it had a car accident and lost my only vehicle back in may but the last half of the year has been good. moved back to the area i grew up in and am now back up to 3 vehicles 1 really nice boat 1 nice boat 2 trailers a couple of constant scrap contracts a good word of mouth reputation and have hauled in about 5k worth of scrap and have 2 farm cleanups waiting for me in the spring.

For 2014 i'm hoping to find a different house (600 a month to heat the first flor alone on the one im in now!) close to where i have most of my contracts get back into a pickup instead of suvs get a car trailer and or a tow dolly for cars and also get a 2 ton truck for the bigger farm clean outs along with a bobcat. so i got high expectations of myself in 2014 hopefully i will get there but if not atleaswt i will be trying and shooting for 75 tons of scrap metal for the year (hauled 30 from june to november before snow hit

Well, I scrapped my first car this year, finally got a trailer, found a buyer for e-waste, gained more knowledge, and my total lbs. for the year with nonferrous and ferrous was 26,012 lbs. In 2014, I hope to get a connection to a computer shop and a school.

Wow, some great stories here, thanks for all the good ones, and my sympathy for the others. Especially yours Brass, I had no clue, best wishes for your girl.

Far as scrapping goes, I'm not able to do it big time, so I concentrate mostly on recycling and re-purposing, re-introducing it to the market when/if possible. It's sort of slow that way, but ohwell, no complaints, life's been good

Best wishes to you all and a Happy New Year

2013 was good to us. I got married Nov 1st. My now new 11yo stepson won his 3 year battle with leukemia in June.
As for my scrap totals: ferrous 20,267 lbs. and nonferrous 2,402lbs.

Things I want to do in 2014: I'm going to overhaul my 5x8 trailer by putting a wood floor in, maybe get an old truck and score more metal!

Happy New Years fellow scrappers.

Made $2,000 more than last year. Ran in almost 28,000 lbs (27,786) of material this year. Made a great contact this spring just by grabbing 2 bikes from the curb. Guy asked if I would want a 6x8 steel fence gate. OK cool. This is only 2 blocks from home, so i tell him who i am and where i live and he knows what house. Tells me to come by next week at the same time for his furnace, water heater, and a/c. Turns out he owns a fence company. Asked if it would be ok to bring any steel fence scraps to my house, OK, no problem. Got a few business cards from him. My sister had him put up a fence for her and a lady at work needed a new gate also, so i got him some business sence he helped me out, i helped him out.

Had a repeate caller for pick ups 4 times from my sisters friend, who's grandma passed away. Went there to grab some furniture with my sister and told them i do scrap. Turns out the grand father was a "junk man" and they needed to clean up the garage. They wanted to go threw it and let me know later what they wanted gone. So they called 4 times and every time was a full truck load. one trip had 20+ electric motors. Had my sister with on one pick up and goin home with a full load, Washing machine down the street, lucky i had help to throw it in the truck bed cause there was no way I could open the tailgate without everything falling out. Just a few storys...

I just started scrapping in May. I'm one of the strange ones that found this forum and then started scrapping. I've learned a lot and I'm very thankful for all of the wonderful information on this forum. I learn something new every day. While this started as a part time hobby, it has turned into a lucrative part time job. There have been a couple of months where I've made more scrapping that I did that week at my full time job. My best month so far I made over $4,000. I do almost exclusive e-waste. I'm not quite ready to give up on 2013 yet, however. Between yesterday and today I have picked up at 3 new spots and have agreements with all three of them to pick up every other week. In January 2014 alone, I already have 4 appointments to pick up lot of ewaste (I mean take my trailer with me to carry it all.) On two of them, they are completely free. I'm really looking forward to 2014!

Not bad for an 18 yr. old, us old guys and everyone in between. Gals included. Congrats Kochy

2013 was our first full year in business.
I just added our numbers up for the year-
Just over 700,000lbs of plastics
Just under 500,000lbs of Ferrous/ Non ferrous
Just over 50,000lbs of EWaste
Then we have smaller amounts of cardboard, paper etc.
I am very happy with these numbers. Hoping to double them for next year!