parrothead 
OK, ever since I moved here I had to drive to Fort Pierce to sell any scrap I had. It is a 33 mile round trip which takes exactly 3 gallons of gas in my truck. So, I never bothered making the run unless I had a full load to offset the gas price.
As of tomorrow, there is a brand new non-ferrous yard opening up just 10 blocks from my house. I am crossing my fingers that the prices are comperable to the yards that are a 33 mile round trip.
I have been stopping by this place off and on and never found anyone, but finally got someone on Saturday. Glad I did.
This is fantastic. I save all of our cans and it gets to be a mess in the side yard. It was never worth the drive, I just crammed a few bags in to fill up the load. Now I can run over there as soon as we get just one good bag of cans even if it is just 4 or 5 dollars. This makes a huge difference for me on space.
Along with this, the guy said he would be buying boards. Not sure what he meant, but will find out tomorrow. While I doubt they can beat the buyers on here for the good stuff, I am hoping that they are buying lowgrade boards which I never had the room to save before. I will now be able to throw 2 or 3 totes with a total of 100 pounds or so of low grade and just run over there and get rid of it even if I just get $10 dollars for it.
I never saved them before because it would take about 150 pounds just to break even on the gas not to mention the wear and tear on the truck. And as you know those boards can be bulky and take up space.
So besides the gas savings, I get some space savings (with the cans) which will allow for me to save the crappy boards that I never was able to save before.
Worst case scenario, if their prices suck, I will still take my cans there whenever I get enough, and I will still be able to add the low grade boards to what I save up and sell.
win-win either way.
Happy day tomorrow and I am sure that biggerhammer will be posting soon about this as well as it will be a big help for them too.
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