Hello Scrappers,
Sense a couple others have started a diary on here I figured why not. I believe I'll have information beneficial to the community so here goes. First don't know how many others will be in this situation but if you are then this will be the thread to follow.
First off some small ground work. At the moment the wife is the only income source (times are tough) and she works for an answering service where she has to answer phones for companies and write messages. Because of her diabetes her eye sight is starting to worsen which is effecting her job performance and has already been given a warning about errors in her message tickets. Soooo, it has become obvious that we need an alternative income source that isn't dependent on getting fired, layed off, etc. For that I chose scrapping. Now we live in an apartment complex and have no vehicle, truck, etc.
What I do have for this adventure is a bike and trailer. What I need to be able to do with this rig is at least make enough to pay the rent to begin with and work up from there. The plan is just to ride around dumpster diving, hunting, etc for scrap (aluminum cans, cast aluminum, copper, brass, what ever can fit is trailer). I'll not using the local scrapyards because there are buyers that you can meet, in various places, around town that will buy. Most of them only buy aluminum cans and plastic bottles but I did find one guy that purchases all metals. The going rate in Vegas right now is $1/lb for aluminum cans and .30/lb for plastic bottles. The scrap yards are worst at .38/lb for cans and I don't know what they pay for plastic bottles but I'll assume it isn't good.
That's all for now. Tomorrow I'll be starting and I'll keep this post as my diary to track progress and fill people in on my thoughts, tips, things I've learned etc. For those interested I'll post a picture below of my rig.
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