Aluminum Types and best method to scrap.

I brought a pretty heavy load of aluminum to the scrap yard a month or so ago. A full pickup truck along with a trailer full.



HERE IS A GOOD QUESTION : THIS LOAD WAS CLEAN AND PREPARED LOAD, NO RUBBER, OR PLASTIC ATTACHED TO ANYTHING AND NO STEEL NOTHING A MAGNET WOULD GRAB ONTO. AM I WASTING MY TIME PREPARING THE LOAD ?????????????

It was a mix of aluminum hoods, aluminum fenders, a few allow aluminum wheels, some various aluminum plates from 1/4" thick to 1/2" thick. screen doors, lawn chairs and what ever, all prepared.
They weighed me on the scale then I dumped the material in a few different piles.
One pile had all allow wheels.
Another had screen doors and thin aluminum.
And the last pile was the heavier material.
They paid me for aluminum ??????
Why is it every time I go to any scrap yard I FEEL LIKE A NEW BRIDE?
They really don't tell you what they are paying you for until you are leaving the yard and your at the office.
Up until that point you are just weighing in and unloading and then going back on the scale for your tare weight.
Like everyone on her, we are putting in the time to collect, prepare and we want the max dollar for the load, but I feel I can't get there !!!!!

There is 2 yards I go to yard #1 and yard #2. #1 separates all aluminum and #2 mixes it altogether. I take my sheet and cast to get mixed because yard # 1 pays less. #2 don't care if there is screws as long as there is no plastic or wire, then its breakage. yard #1 I take my wheels, radiators, extruded, and steel because yard #2 mixes it all as shred and #1 buys it as clean with no plastic or garbage, shred, auto cast, and heavy. The stuff that goes to #1 has to all be cleaned (non-ferrous) but the price on wheels, radiators, and extruded is higher than the mixed price at #2

Originally Posted by Ironhead

Why is it every time I go to any scrap yard I FEEL LIKE A NEW BRIDE?

You can easily have that annulled, up until the point where it's already been consummated ; )

The mistake you made was when you went to the first pile after you unloaded,you should have went back on the scale or the yard guy should have told you to do that,that said I would not go back to them again,some times I go back to the scale five or six times, you separated the load for them and they paid you for all sheet nice guys

Originally Posted by 1956

The mistake you made was when you went to the first pile after you unloaded,you should have went back on the scale or the yard guy should have told you to do that,that said I would not go back to them again,some times I go back to the scale five or six times, you separated the load for them and they paid you for all sheet nice guys

True Dat!