its been sloooow

its slowed way down for us ive been at my girlfriends house everyday before 6 and a few weeks ago i wasnt getting done until after dark, i was thinking the way we were killing it thru the winter spring would be awesome, instead we have had several lazy days, we have only bought two cars since friday and hardly no calls. we got a call to scrap a greyhound bus only to get there and the guy took all the easy stuff, he cut the whole middle out left us with the front and the rear, he was under a deadline because the house was sold so we were the ones to get called got it all done on monday. before i get any grief on not separating it me and the yard found a price between torch and breakage we could live with. we did cut several lbs of brass off of it and a radiator about 4 inches thick. being slow gives me time to clean up the yard i guess and it for sure needs it. just wondering how everyone else is doing or if its just us??

Hopefully you haven't mined your area out yet. How many fire extingishers do you have left to cut up?

I'd let you know, but I havn't even had time to scrap lately...

bunches of extinguishers to cut up, even found some more aluminum ones, findem all the time, thats the majority of my yard clean up i need to do, i got a few cars and countless alum rims and radiators to breeak down even a few computers, i like breaking stuff down alot but it doesnt compare to answering the phone and rushing out to see what you get i guess what im saying is the stuff in the yard is already money in the bank, i got 10 acres here to fill up

It has slowed way down for me too. Last summer I was doing 6 cars/trucks a week, this winter it went down to 3 a week, which was honestly better then I had thought it would be. Now I'm down to about 1 vehicle a week. Time to start looking into more advertising.

I am with Skippy, Just started looking at that market!!!

Steel was real slow all winter. When the weather broke, the pickup service has been non stop. The carry ins are up too. I took the week off to spend with my kids on their spring break. I have only moved 12 vehicles since Monday! I have 3 waiting for processing in the lot and then we may go shroom hunting Friday.

we advertise pretty good, i just posted on kzs post a couple days ago about appliances i had to cancel it because we had so much going on, thinking about reposting it, not gonna rush into it tho it does seem to go in spurts, i know we have been spoiled i do remember when we first started back in the fall we would only get a car every week or two

Things are picking up this week, I just grabbed a 02' Saturn and a 91' Cavalier today. I have a pickup load of mixed iron tomorrow to pick up and a Grand Marquis tomorrow.

i know it goes in spurts and i guess i griped too early have to agree we got two today, a ford thunderbird, and a buick century. got hooked up with a wrecker service today paying a little more than i should but it will be a steady flow of vehicles getting 4 from him tomorrow plus get to buy 20 alum wheels, as a bonus its only about 10minutes from my house. he said he cant afford to scrap them it seem eveytime he goes to the yard he misses out on a tow. see how it goes but he liked the prices we quoted and i learned an expression from him today and liked it alot. you can shear a sheep forever but you can only skin him once, pretty good advice if you think about it

lol cory, that's a good one

lol the guy was telling me that while i was getting my price ready, i took the hint, you cant BS a guy that has probably scrapped more cars than you, but at the same time he left me enough room to make a decent profit

and i hope to shear him for a long time

lol, again, yep! ; )

talk about a roller coaster, got a ford ranger this morning bout an hour away, then i got 3 from the wrecker service today (he loaded them with a forklift) getting 3 more from him 2 tomorrow and i got a taurus station wagon tomorrow from an individual. called out from work tonight, i got 7 cars in the yard and rumor is prices are going down next week. i hate to let go of my job but ive got to make a decision soon, my body dont take the long days like it used to.

Tough choice to make Cory!