What scrap won't you pick up

**jimicrk** · 04-18-2015, 06:00 PM

Everything I scrap is from telephone systems and data equipment. I don't take CRT's unless I can get a fair amount of PC's also. I've got one guy trying to give me 2 pallets of monitors and a few printers but I just smile and say nope.
I took a load of empty PC cases to the yard today and I couldn't believe what people were throwing away. Right there at the edge of the scrap pile were two huge cast aluminum grills. DA's!!
I unloaded and threw 1300 pounds of metal right on top of the grills covering them completely. I figured this would keep other scrappers honest.

**CRTplauged** · 04-20-2015, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by greytruck

No CRT'S, Coffee makers, Carpet Scrubbers, Boom box's. sure there is more

No CRT's for the reasons everyone else states, but I will do coffeemakers: usually there's a small board in there and the heating element is often cast AL. My yard will not take that shiny (#5?) plastic, which a lot of vacuums have. I take the vacuums and will strip down motor to copper wire if I can't sell a working motor on Ebay.

**kevath** · 04-20-2015, 06:43 PM

Printes, not much scraps and lot of plastic going to landfill... my city recycling center dont take abs and pvc plastic, but they take whole printers lol

**Copper Head** · 04-20-2015, 08:45 PM

I scrap any thing that the public uses

**dwaggs** · 04-20-2015, 09:56 PM

I don't scrap anything with freon. Not my line so I let the guys who can reclaim freon. Other than that I don't turn much down.

**Copper Head** · 04-21-2015, 08:05 AM

I'll say it just once (cause to me it's the best kept secret ) But CRT TV's are a great sorce of copper some AL & depending on yard
Copper Bearing there a fine scrapping item .
Other then that yes please leave them for me !!
way to much work
heavy
Don't forget you can get jolted
Leave em for me !!

**Abuilder** · 04-21-2015, 09:22 AM

Originally Posted by Copper Head

I scrap any thing that the public uses

used toilet paper.

**hobo finds** · 04-21-2015, 03:52 PM

Anything from the scrap yard without asking.

**BRASSCATCHER** · 04-21-2015, 03:59 PM

Things that belong to someone else!!!!

**hobo finds** · 04-21-2015, 04:22 PM

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Joe Garagiola

**Abuilder** · 04-21-2015, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER

Things that belong to someome else!!!!

Somehow or another you made recycling sound criminal. LOL

**bluemeate** · 04-21-2015, 07:03 PM

I can never find my snips in my truck so i stopped cutting cords :/

**hobo finds** · 04-21-2015, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by bluemeate

I can never find my snips in my truck so i stopped cutting cords :/

#2 insulated down to $.78 a pound here

**Scrap808** · 04-21-2015, 09:46 PM

We don't make it a habit to refuse anything. Our marketing is based on saving the environment and saving space in our dwindling landfill space (it's a huge problem here and the government hardly recycles anything). So by refusing, we are contradicting ourselves and would turn off customers. Luckily we have a free CRT drop-off for processed CRTs once we are done with them. A big issue with us is plastic. We get a lot of it in fans and the like. We're trying to find a responsible place to send it (even if you have to recycle these things at a loss, claiming you are zero landfill is a big plus).

Also, we pick up fridges and air conditioners and microwaves but we don't process them. We take them directly to the scrap yard.

**newattitude** · 04-26-2015, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by AdmiralAluminum

You should be rejoicing in your competition's stupidity (especially on the PCs, since they're so easy to tear down)! Don't be upset they got it, be happy they didn't get what they could for it and may one day quit because "scrapping just isn't profitable"!

Hey now! We are all essentially his ''competitors'' and just because I don't sell things online doesn't make me stupid! Wtf?

**newattitude** · 04-26-2015, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by ozzy214

Um with a screw gun i can rip any major appliance, down to a shell in 10-15 mins. 15 x 4- 10 hour a in scrap!!!

If yall want save the motors and ship them to me. I dont know if it is worth it, but i would probaly pay 30c a lb for them. But they are heavy and I think cost of shipping will far outweigh it.

And no Im just tryimg to educate is all. It drives me nuts when I see 10 a/c units thrown in the shred pile or 20 pc's. Or a washer, that takes 30 sec to rip the front panel off. Then at least you could make $40 in switches if ya dont want to mess with the wire. And then I sit here looking a g in the shred like omg, I need that money \to pay my bills. And somebody tossed it off for 50 bucks. Just my pet peeve

I don't think we are all as dumb as you imply. What works for YOU doesn't mean it works for others. So don't imply you are so all knowing and perfect and the rest of us suck which you just did.

Also, the topic of the thread was ''what won't you pick up'' not, ''WHY won't you pick something up, tear it down and 500% maximize on said item like perfect little boys and girls.''

**alloy2** · 04-26-2015, 12:11 PM

Machine Swarf

**bigburtchino** · 04-29-2015, 04:33 PM

Machine Swarf if it comes pre-packed in 55 gal. drums I'll work it all the way to the scrap yard, but those contacts have to be cultivated, that doesn't happen in a dumpster or shopping at curb-co.

**dsroten** · 04-29-2015, 05:01 PM

I take pretty much everything, as I own a full scale auto wrecking yard I've found a way to properly dispose of pretty much everything. Propane tanks, I use the propane for personal stuff and then shoot a couple holes in them from long range before torching them up. My yard will take oil barrels as long I cut a "man sized hole" in them and drain them, but I only take them if empty.

The only thing I really shy away from is campers and house trailers. To dispose of the construction debris properly is costly here (no burning - that stuff is just nasty), and for the little bit of aluminum sheeting, copper wire, and steel frame, I just cant really come out on them in the end if I figure in my time and fuel.

**hunterandscrapper** · 04-29-2015, 06:42 PM

I will scrap pretty much anything with propane tanks I shoot them, couches on and recliners and mattresses I burn (it's what we do around here)

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