My dad has been friends with two owners of scrap yard , one of them was like the second . He used to let us scrap and take apart things from other scrappers and would not really care what we did , sometimes we even sold what we took apart like electric motors and aluminum to the same yard and they would pay us there. I even remember on summertime we used to bring alot of motherboards from the yard , since they did not take em apart for
ewaste which was a big plus , I filled up 20x20x20 usps box with roughly 65lbs each week until they closed , did that for about 3 months. That scrap yard sadly closed down
because the guy who ran things decided to go live to California with most of his family was to work at a ranch . Now the other guy I take my scrap to my dad is close to him too , but he actually has workers who strip things down , they also gather the computers to take apart and sell , they collect the ewaste , although the owner lets my dad take things too , but if his workers get to it first then its theirs . There is not much freedom as before , but you got to work with what you have , he penalties guys -$15 for the tvs they take or Christmas trees , but he does not tell us anything we've taken 200+lbs tvs before with all the metal we take and he pays us for it as scrap . So we actually get $20 for a tv he would charge $15 for . Also lately when it snows we let the load sit down outside and mix with the snow we get a couple 100-200lbs of that in there , we take a broom and unload it with all the metal on top so it does not seem obvious , and since there is mud and water in the yard at this time of the month
we get paid for the snow too so . Always great to make friends with the yard workers and owner as well brings so much perks
- Friends with the owners
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