My first Pickup and it was NICE

So this is my first Non-Curbco pickup. Everything was free. I recently hauled a ton (2000lbs) of wood pellets and based on how far my truck sagged I'd say this load was about 1500lbs. There was a bunch of rolls of 12/2 and 14/2 some good aluminum and a friggan huge battery, weighed like 80 lbs and have 8 terminals on it, along with a few other batteries and about 150lbs of cylinder heads. What yall think? I'd love some guesstimate of the value. BTW thios is a full sized bed on a 2014 silverado work truck.
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Sorry, some pics are blurry, was trying to get it unloaded before dark.

Yea I'm gona separate and dismantle everything tomorrow night.

I am still confused about some of the non-ferrous seperation from like tin, aluminum and light steel. Monday will be my first yard run and I hope to learn a decent amount about separation.

Matt, I plan on stripping all of the wire, I do alot of electrical so for the amount Ill have on hand I'm adding the time to strip it all, house wire anyways, electronic will go in as coated wire. The motors I plan on stripping the copper then selling as electric motor. Its getting into the similar non-ferrous im confused on. I know copper and brass. What I'm really confused on, is galvanized and cast iron and regular steel and iron. Are they all the same? I plan on any non magnetic basically being aluminum? (i think) for the non copper/brass, but its the ferrous I'm confused on separating, or is it even worth separating? I have done alot of reading and I;m sure ill learn each time i take it to the yard and ask how i could have sorted it better but extra advice never hurts. I'm taking my haul next monday, have an ultra sound visit for my wife near the yard so gona kill two birds with one stone. And ill be sure to post the paycheck to show everyone how i did my first go.

Oh and scrapalot, i saw your thanks and thank you but i was really looking forward to reading one of your footnote quotes lol

Matt, on the bottom right of the second picture, its the metal around a roof vent. does that look galvanized to you? I may be mistaken assuming it is.

So can i throw that into the junk scrap pile?

Thats what I was thinking for the ferrous. What do you mean by the 701 area code? Do I have my number entered wrong?

Ahhhh i see what yah did there lol. Sorry a lil bit of celebratory buzz at the moment...

LOL @ PJ for picking on Fubar.

He's obviously disoriented as I've not made my post yet!

The quote will come Fubar, don't worry. ha ha!

As PJ said, it's not as complicated as it sounds my friend. If it sticks to a magnet throw it in the shred pile. Not sure if Matt touched on this or not, but you will also find most yards have what they call Dirty Alum, which is of course Alum with steel, or plastic, etc on it. My yard when I first started using them, would dock me on my alum beach chairs cause of the rivets. They eventually stopped that, due to being bribed with cold water, lunch now an then, an cold beverages when I'd see them out an about on the sandbar. I of course think they did it cause of my pure awesomeness, but it's all good.

As Spin said there is a good bit on here about ferrous an non-ferrous. From spark tests to magnet checking.

Get things sorted as much as you can, an then before you hand stuff over to them for the scale..ask some questions. A good yard will help educate you in my opinion. Means less work for them when you come in. You'll learn as you go, an hopefully any mistakes you do make when sorting won't cost you as much as it has some of us. Heh.

Either way I wish ya much luck on your first trip to the yard.

Sirscrapalot - Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much. - Buddy Hackett