I know I don't post here all that often, but I'm on the site 3 or 4 times a day. Anyways, thought I'd upload a few pics from a weekend cleanup I did for an old friend. They owned a garage here in town for years and years, and actually helped me get my start in the salvage business, and my own wrecker business. While I no longer scrap full time (took a job with benefits a few years ago and just scrap on the side) I stayed in close contact with them. Sadly, the owner passed a couple months back and the family decided to close it down and liquidate everything. After they had gotten what they wanted they called me to clean up the leftovers. So I spent the long weekend loading junk onto trucks and this week it'll all be hauled in.
A load of heavier scrap stuff. Frame pieces, road tractor parts, etc. Will post a weight once its gone.
Cleaned out a wrecked 48 foot, semi trailer van body they used for storage. This load is all aluminum, radiators, starters, alternators and other non-ferrous things
Same load on the other side, not pictured are the buckets of brass fittings they had kept. They were packrats!
And heres the trailer it was in. 48 foot aluminum body, aluminum floored, with no axles. Quoted price at the yard is .19 a pound. I'll update with a weight once it makes it down there, but I estimate 10,000 pounds.
Also not pictured is a dump truck load of small parts, bolts and other random junk that was in there. Yard paid me $.04, had 7000lbs on it.
I know this is not the normal stuff posted here, I just wanted to share my weekend with you all, as I enjoy reading all of the posts and seeing what others are getting into. Hopefully someone else can enjoy this. And I wanted to say that fostering those relationships will bring you this kind of result in the long run. Yes I'm going to make some money here, but I did a lot of really crappy cleanups for these folks when no one else would. And heres the end result. Build relationships!
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