Great telcom score from my first trailer load

**kss** · 11-04-2020, 05:05 PM

This first job with my trailer, which ended up being 6 trailer+trucks loads, and 2 just truck loads, over the course of 4 seperate days, Got rid of all the non-ewaste stuff first (steel/light iron/wires/etc) so thats all gone and moved through, now just have all the telcom stuff left and decided to take some pics of it to share here. It is about 1 5x8 trailer load, around 1 ton of stuff by my estimate. Brought this stuff back to my place to take apart where as the rest just went straight to the yard.

https://imgur.com/a/ayal4mC

**JJinLV** · 11-04-2020, 05:12 PM

Nice one! Looks like a lotta great boards in there. Should be a nice payday for you!

**kss** · 11-04-2020, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by JJinLV

Nice one! Looks like a lotta great boards in there. Should be a nice payday for you!

I'm hoping so! Getting a pallet ready to cash in on the e-waste/circuit boards. Super excited about it, just gotta find the time to sort out all the boards, palletize them, and take the remains to the scrapyard. Sometimes having a day job really gets in the way of my scrapping! lol

**JJinLV** · 11-05-2020, 11:01 AM

Luckily there are several reputable buyers on this forum within quick shipping distance of you that are happy to do a sort and settle if you don't have time to separate everything perfectly. And if the freight cost is low enough you might consider some of it whole as is and getting a disassembly price for it instead, leaving you with more time to pickup more material

**kss** · 11-05-2020, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by JJinLV

Luckily there are several reputable buyers on this forum within quick shipping distance of you that are happy to do a sort and settle if you don't have time to separate everything perfectly. And if the freight cost is low enough you might consider some of it whole as is and getting a disassembly price for it instead, leaving you with more time to pickup more material

Oh yea, I've used the buyers on here many times. I like taking things apart and this is not a typical load for me so definitely will take the time to take apart and maximize the earnings. If loads like this start becoming commonplace (which would be a good problem to have!) Then I might consider sending away whole.

**JJinLV** · 11-05-2020, 04:07 PM

Am coming at it from the perspective of someone who's day job is scrap metal so take that into consideration. But from an income perspective and a aggregate recycling mass perspective, all opportunities to profitably turn and burn lets you grow your client list and serve a larger part of your local market, which also gives you more time to land the occasional whale that is worth dedicating a lot of time to. But that's just an economic look. If the fun of it is the main point then everything I just wrote is immaterial. It's a super fun and occasionally very profitable hobby and $ doesn't need to figure into the decision much at all. Like at this point I've outsourced virtually all my computer repair to a local shop that handles non-scrap electronics sales for us, and another client does the gtsv for restaurant appliances and equipment and so on. I plan my margins for just scrap and take everything else as bonus pretty much

**kss** · 11-06-2020, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by JJinLV

Am coming at it from the perspective of someone who's day job is scrap metal so take that into consideration. But from an income perspective and a aggregate recycling mass perspective, all opportunities to profitably turn and burn lets you grow your client list and serve a larger part of your local market, which also gives you more time to land the occasional whale that is worth dedicating a lot of time to. But that's just an economic look. If the fun of it is the main point then everything I just wrote is immaterial. It's a super fun and occasionally very profitable hobby and $ doesn't need to figure into the decision much at all. Like at this point I've outsourced virtually all my computer repair to a local shop that handles non-scrap electronics sales for us, and another client does the gtsv for restaurant appliances and equipment and so on. I plan my margins for just scrap and take everything else as bonus pretty much

Yea maximizing profitability is part of the fun, but for me I'm not doing it entirely for the money. Just like taking stuff apart and finding trash treasures and saving the earth by keeping stuff out of landfills. Yes I do like the money, but overall my scrap earnings are like <10% of my actual day job income. I don't think I could scale enough to fully replace my day job with scrap income but would be neat if I could! It's just a side hobby for now and/or what I'm going to do to keep busy when I am financially independent and don't really need to work any more (still many many years off)