Car + Trailer quickly becoming too small!

Im sure most of you have experienced it already... but WOW! I have told maybe 4-5 people in depth that I am scrapping metal and the calls are just pouring in with loads of stuff to pickup. I currently have a Sebring and a 4x8 trailer... I can pull 1.5k max!! BEAST! =D
Got a call today from a friend of a friend..?! I guess a friend shared info with his buddy at work has a full time job re fitting building with new sprinkler lines. He calls today and says he has at least 3,000 pounds of pipe that he needs "Off the floor and gone" and that Im getting the phone call because up until now he has had to pay to have it removed. He didn't care at all that I would have to make 3 or so loads... as long as it was gone by the end of the business day. He said its an active work site to wear boots and jeans ... and there might be some other piles of wire and sprinkler fixtures ready as well (the fixtures are brass!)

To make the story short.. I have not done more than tell a few people and I somehow am now tied up to clean behind a sprinkler refitting operation. No real reason to share.. I am just amazed at how things are progressing!

Looking into the truck/trailer combo if this is going to continue like this... I am 100% new to buying a truck (or a used car in general). From what I have gathered over the past month or so it looks like there is a 2-4k range for some decent looking vehicles with 175k+ miles... or 6-9k on a much better looking truck made in this decade with 150k+ miles. MAX Budget for the truck/trailer combo would be about 8k, but an ideal would be more like 6k. So if im looking in that older bracket of trucks (1996-2002ish with 175k+ miles) is there a certain brand/make/model that I should avoid? Any that run strong to 200k then just stop? Looking to tow at LEAST 8,000 pnds



Thanks for the truck/trailer help!

What a DAY! I feel like a pile of jello....

So I get all my gear gathered today and head out around 10am to the jobsite where there is supposedly 3k of sprinkler pipe waiting to go away. I arrive at a strip mall and mosey on inside and to my surprise a building the side of a football field has 3-4 people working! and it was a MESS. I ask one guy where "John with XXXXXX company is" and he says ask that guy... I then ask the next guy who says he doesn't know and point at the guy riding some machine and says "go ask the foreman" So I approach this guy and introduce myself and his reaction was..
"Oh scrap? That pile right there is the sh** left by John go ahead and grab it. But.. do you want more metal? We are behind schedule, I am down guys. Any metal touching the ground you can take." He spreads his arms and motions that anything from that point on can be taken... in that football field size area he just motioned too sits another pile of electrical pipe (2,000 pnds) and aside from that there is pipe and wire and **** EVERYWHERE! I had to call in my friend with a truck and real trailer a few hours later when I realized I couldn't handle it all.

In the end my buddy got 3,000pnds of pipe/scrapmetal. I got 3,000 pounds of pipe+metal, 100 pnds of romex, ~50 pounds cast aluminum, 100 pounds of heavy gage aluminum wire, ~40 pounds aluminum pipe things. We got it all moved out by the end of the day. I also gave the foreman my business card (first one handed out to a non friend/family!), and had some small chat with the foreman. He replied saying "Wish I had this a few days ago! We have another job just down the road next week, I will give you a shout. Thanks for all the help today"

GREAT day. GREAT GREAT GREAT day. Completely exhausted but cannot stop smiling.

Thanks for reading!


Its becoming clear im making more money on my "days off" now that I do at my full time haha!!

Let the addiction begin!

Sirscrapalot - Founder of Scrapper Anonymous local 225 oh, and keeper of the traveling cooler.

Congrats, arm, that's awesome

So today I go to pickup a Magliner and of course get to talking. Long story short this was sitting there in a garage. Got it for $15! Thought it was 10-15 pounds, but once I got home it is 20 pounds exactly. No IDEA what religion is it HAHA.. some sort of incense burner

Question...

Most trucks appear to be equipped with a manual trans.... at least the 90's ones. Newer ones seem to be a mix of auto and manual. I have driven manual a few times in my life and it can be done... but... will I need to? Anyone have insight/advice about the manual vs auto and why so many older ones are manual?

Recently manuals have reduced and are harder to find, but used to be popular as they got better gas mileage and you can determine the stress points on the transmission by when you shift. I personally drive an automatic but either could be used, it's mostly what you are comfortable with, due to the fact that the mileage is not much better. If anybody has anything to add or disagree with please do.