Commercial Printers? - Page 3

Originally Posted by msmoorad

it will take more time & effort but try to remove all the aluminium & s/steel from those printers & other machines that you plan to scrap.

its will be worth it in the end- of course, if you dont have much time left to remove it or the distance you travel daily to get to this place is far & it will cost more in fuel, then u can work out for yourself if its worth it.

what i did was i got a lift with my friend - the guy who works at the company where i was given those printers.
he lives near me so i traveled with him the entire week- got there early with the employees & clocked off only when they did- so that way i saved on fuel & put in a full days work for each day i was there

then on the last day i got another friend to come haul everything & i paid him something for that service.
it seemed the most profitable way to do it.

but those printers u have seem much bigger- i would try to completely dismantle at least one- just to see how much of non ferrous in in them altogether so u can judge if its worth the time & effort to strip the rest.

I really wish I had the time to break these down. My property is too far away to make hauling them home worth it. It's a 60 mile round trip to my house and then it will be another 60 mile round trip taking them back to the yard once I break them down. I have been bringing a few items home and I might bring a few more items home this week but most of this has to go strait to the scrap yard.

I am pulling any easy to get brass, copper, wiring, motors, stainless and aluminum but I know I am leaving a lot of that on these machines simply because it won't be easy to get at it.

Well it looks like I will probably be breaking the big printing presses down myself and loading them onto a flat bed. No one in town wants to touch them except for one yard that wants to charge too much for the removal and not pay enough for the scrap.

The original owner(sold the business 2 years ago) stopped by today and gave me some pointers on how to separate the individual units.

I have had my 2 and a half year old with me so far on this job and she's been doing great between running around the warehouse playing with all the random stuff and spending time in the truck watching cartoons on my tablet. But if I end up messing with these big printing presses I am going to have to start working on them at night because she definitely can't be around when I am running a torch and lifting equipment that exceeds the rating on the forklift.

Lets do some math. I am thinking 60-80,000lbs so lets say 70k at $145 a ton= $5075. Flat bed fee will be 200 per trip to the yard so I can subtract $400-600.

I would really like to bring one unit across the scale so I can get a better idea about the weight before I commit to removing everything.

FML

You could try a truck scale. I think Triple t has one.

Drive on unloaded, go load up, come back check weight. Assuming a yard won't let you ride over theirs. CAT scales shouldn't have any problem with it, as your paying for it. I could be wrong but hey...it's an idea! Call first tho an ask. Been a while since I been to Triple T, so I could be remembering wrong about them having a scale. Think they do though as their the only truck stop if I recall near Tucson, rest are up around Phoenix if I recall.

Maybe @Gorven can chime in with if normal folks can use those scales. He's got experience with such I'm sure.

Good luck to ya 520. Oh an try the pie if you haven't. Triple T is known for it's awesome pie, or used to be anyhow. LOL.

Man I miss Arizona.

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Well it turns out the owner of the scrap yard I have been using has a big flatbed trailer and he will only charge me $50 to haul in one of these units. I think i'll haul one of them in next week so I can better estimate the money i'll make on the scrap and then i'll go from there. If the smaller units weigh 5,000 lbs then I am sitting on 100k+ at $150 a ton. That will bring in $7,500.

Sold the pallet racks from the warehouse for well above scrap today. They come on friday to break them down and haul them away. Might have the paper baler sold fingers crossed. Here are the 2 loads I hauled in today. The smaller machines are trimmers/cutters and the bigger green one is a paper feeder.



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Originally Posted by hobo finds

About how many tons of stuff was the "small stuff"? And what do you think the big equipment weighs?

I would have to look at my receipts to get a total on the smaller equipment. I hauled 24 loads total and probably averaged around 1000lbs per load. But I also hauled a whole truck load of wire and 120 lbs of number one copper.

I think the big equipment weights no less than 100,000 pounds. But the guy from CFS and a guy from another scrap yard both estimate 130,000-150,000.

Oh and it turns out that along with cats and stripped copper wire, scrap yards can't buy aluminum loading ramps. I asked if they needed to be cut in half before I brought them in and they informed me they can't buy them. But I guess they will make pretty awesome ramps for my forklift.

I have a guy who buys stripped wire and wire with varnish like from motors or CRT's as number 2 copper.

keep them pics coming...

So I am doing the whole warehouse clean out in trade for the forklift. So I spent the day doing demo on a few walls. I also got the small printing press disassembled into 4 pieces. Just need to strip the wiring before I haul it off. I was thinking I would load it on the big truck coming to get the big presses but now they will fit in my trailer. Here are some before and after pics.


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I was just put in contact today with a company that brokers the sale of big printing presses like the ones I have been planning on scrapping. Since I still have 6 weeks to get them out of the warehouse I am going to take a couple weeks and let them try to sell them first. I know some of you guys already tried to convince me to put them up for sale before I scrapped them but I personally don't know enough about the presses to sell them myself. The company I am working with seems to know what they are doing and hopefully will be able to get them sold.

good to hear..pls keep us informed as to how things progress.

Well I am on the home stretch! I spent the last week and a half disassembling/separating all the printing presses and today I got all of it loaded onto 2 trailers. The hardest items to load were some of the taller presses that needed to be laid down on the flat bed. Although a couple of the shorter presses took a few tries for me to get up the ramp and into the back of the trailer with high sides. It took me a about 6 hours to get both trailers loaded.

I will know the weight Monday morning!

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