Anybody ever been called on to scrap a boat and trailer?

**BurlyGuys** · 03-21-2012, 10:29 AM

So I have this customer that wants to scrap a boat. From the pics I'm gonna say it is a 30 footer, and it comes with the trailer. There is no scrap metal value to the boat, in fact it is fiberglass and wood and they started filling it with crap, and it has zero resale value so I am going to have to pay to dispose of it. The trailer is in good shape and all I have to do to take it away is inflate a tire.

My questions are:
1.) What ballpark figure is the trailer worth? Certainly more than scrap value!
2.) How do I dispose of the boat? Break it up on the spot? Tow it away and break it up? Is there somewhere I can take it where they will take if for the usable parts?
3.) Am I crazy for considering this?

My thoughts are to charge the guy $600-$700 for the removal (but he''ll squawk over that) and then figure the rest out later.

**EcoSafe** · 03-21-2012, 10:37 AM

boat parts are worth money. all the brass fittings etc. the trailer is worth $300 to $500 as is. stearing cables if operable are hi $ the fiber glass is a pain in the butt, but can be sold as a fish pond or a decoration to a mini golf place or amusement park.

**BurlyGuys** · 03-21-2012, 12:39 PM

Thanks, olddude! BTW are you serious about somebody actually wanting the hull?

**thortek** · 03-21-2012, 12:45 PM

there is a bar here that has a boat sitting in front all decked out like Gilligan's island! You're in Florida...Post a listing on Craigslist for JUST the boat for $100 No title as is...it'll be gone in a heartbeat!

**IdahoScrapper** · 03-21-2012, 04:01 PM

If the suggestions given don't work out you could take it to the dump. I wouldn't spend time trying to break it up. Fiberglass sucks.

A few years ago I was headed to the dump and on the way I saw a guy coming back with an empty boat trailer. I arrive at the dump and sure enough, there's the boat in a sea of trash.

**Bear** · 03-21-2012, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by IdahoScrapper

A few years ago I was headed to the dump and on the way I saw a guy coming back with an empty boat trailer. I arrive at the dump and sure enough, there's the boat in a sea of trash.

lol Idaho, i like the way you saw that ; ) was it still afloat?

**BurlyGuys** · 03-21-2012, 06:54 PM

I quoted the guy $650.00. I could hear him scream from 1200 miles away!

**EcoSafe** · 03-21-2012, 09:48 PM

down here people burry them and make fish ponds out of them, also every mini golf place has one or two sticking out of the ground.

**mikedmissouri** · 03-21-2012, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by BurlyGuys

I quoted the guy $650.00. I could hear him scream from 1200 miles away!

Did he turn you down?

**danielms** · 03-22-2012, 12:55 AM

if the trailer is nice it should be worth $500 to $1000 if aluminum with good axles triple that as for the hull $100 and then sell them the trailer.

**IdahoScrapper** · 03-22-2012, 02:26 AM

Originally Posted by Bear

lol Idaho, i like the way you saw that ; ) was it still afloat?

Kind of. Floating on top of the trash, though not for long.

One of these came along...

**BurlyGuys** · 03-22-2012, 07:47 AM

Oh yeah, he turned me down.

**miked** · 03-22-2012, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by BurlyGuys

Oh yeah, he turned me down.

Having cut up and disposed of a small fiberglass boat I think you may have gotten lucky he did, Mike.

**wescrapmetal** · 03-27-2012, 07:31 PM

hmm accidental boating accident and sell the trailer afterwards

**hobo finds** · 03-27-2012, 08:04 PM

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...82Q01L20120327

**wescrapmetal** · 03-27-2012, 08:08 PM

if the boats fiberglass it can easily be repaird we have taken boast and widen them and lenghten them my father owns a boatshop

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