We're now at 38 cents a lb. for batteries.....
Experienced Scrapper
We're now at 38 cents a lb. for batteries.....
Experienced Scrapper
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All you guys know you can keep editing you craigslist post and the flaf meter restarts so if it takes 10 flags to finally flag ur post and u have 9 and you edit the post it starts over and takes another 10 to flag the post
Get outtta here you scrapper
Experienced Scrapper
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After lurking around the site for 2 days, I decided to join so I could post to this thread. Mid January I got .27 for a pile of deep cycle batteries. They came inat 947 lbs. It was a good haul.
Business really dropped off at Christmas time. I started scrapping stuff in my yard. Since then I have been splitting my time between the shop and scraping.
P.S. ....I am in Abq, NM.
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Welcome to the forum, there's lots of good info available here,,, Mike
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Welcome from another nub.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Here in Illinois we are paying .40/lb for batteries delivered to our location.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
So what's the average weight or a single car battery?
Was wondering if it's worth paying the $5 to end users... We're getting about .30 per lb. on batts.
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Industry average for an auto/light truck battery is 35.4 lbs. Motorcycle battery is 9.4 lbs.Originally Posted by JunkyBusiness
People may laugh at me, but that's ok. I laugh all the way to the bank.
New Guy
just cashed in 3 yesterday $12.16 each
Experienced Scrapper
Just hauled in 9,775 lbs (yes almost 5 tons) of batteries today at $0.39/lb. I asked for a better price since I brought em a large amount. They didn't have a problem with that :-D I have about another 4,000 lbs of them to take in yet.
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Now that's a NICE load of batteries!!!!!
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Cha-Ching,, good job Blue.
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NICE!!! thats nuts with i had that much battery weight!!!!!!! good job
*i have scrap metal running through my blood and i love it*
Experienced Scrapper
Haha thanks guys, i'd post pics of it but I'm pretty sure I don't want DOT or state police to stumble across the pic LOL my trailer is a 22' tilt deck car hauler with two 3500# dexter axles, load range D trailer tires, brakes on both axles. We had em all directly on top of the axles. It squatted the trailer until the frame rails were resting on the axles. Trailer weighs 2500# so you should only have 4500# load on it. Can't believe it didn't bend an axle, bust a hub or rip a tire off the bead. This wasn't intentional but the trailer was off road on unlevel ground when we loaded it and didn't realize the amount of weight we were putting on it. Once I got out on level ground and started to actually move the load down the road I realized it was waaaay heavier than we might have thought... Ya'll would really crap if ya knew what we paid for the whole load hahahahahah............. ridiculous profit margin is all I can say. They weren't free but close enough!!!
Crazy thing is the total load size was 5' x 8' x 3' tall. Didn't take much deck space on the trailer considering the weight.
Dexter makes some really freakin' tough trailer axles that's all i gotta say!!!!!!
PS- worth mentioning that I hadn't been saving these up for any amount of time. Picked them up at one location, and as mentioned, there's another 4,000-5,000 lbs worth of them there yet to go. That makes it even sweeter not having to handle them more than loading them once and not sitting on them for any period of time! Woohoo!
Last edited by Bigblue12v; 04-19-2011 at 06:38 PM.
New Guy
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I'm getting between $0.14 and $0.17 a pound. Needless to say, I'm jealous.
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Do not know whether to laugh or cry. The one load that I hauled was close to 2 ton and the yard would only give $0.19/lb. They said if I could bring in 2 to 3 ton a week I could get up to $0.65/lb.
The 2 ton load was a years worth of sitting on them. LOL.
Good going Bigblue!!
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Blue, you might not want to press your luck with those axles. Those sound like mobile home axles, and they'll take a load, but when you break an axle and tear off the spring hangers; what a mess they'll make. I escorted a mobile home one time that ripped the axle clear out from under the frame when the driver braked and it went up thru the floor into the back bedroom of the coach. Whew, what a mess that was, all over a 2 lane highway.
Experienced Scrapper
Mechanic, it wasn't intentional to have that much weight on 'em believe me! They aren't mobile home axles, they are Dexter trailer axles. Its a factory built car trailer. Again I would never overload them like that again it just happened and didn't have any choice in it by the time I realized how much weight it was. Just had to get where we were going very carefully and safely. And we did and it appears the axles have survived with no damage thank God!
Experienced Scrapper
I'm sorry your yard wasn't more agreeable. If I was you, I would have taken the time to drive them to another state to get a better price.
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The yard is the yard.
To many ports to go through without the Haz. Mat. endorsement on the license.
As I previously posted, I now just sell to the other scrappers in the area for $6.00 a batt. and go on.
Last edited by Patton; 04-20-2011 at 01:23 PM.
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