nice! Man i wish i had that many car batteries lol!Originally Posted by rca987
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nice! Man i wish i had that many car batteries lol!
*i have scrap metal running through my blood and i love it*
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P.s your getting 6$ a battery? if so thats low my yard give me $11 per battery... ( 61x11=$671 )
New Guy
Holy smokes, I guess I have a bad eye for spotting car batteries.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
$450... Bought a bunch of ac compressors for cheap and cut them open with a grinder. Each one had a 40lbs plus electric motor inside and a little copper tubing. Load was somewhere around 1500lbs. The pics of the load are on my business facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/twofatguyswithatruck
I tried to cut the enameled copper out of the motors, but after the first one took me over 2 hours, I called it quits on that idea. I had 25 compressors to go through. Probably would've taken me a week for an extra 60-70 bucks.
I'll beat this eventually.
Experienced Scrapper
$3800 and change..... Paid $42 for the material, loaded and hauled in just that easy.... well kinda easy LOL Loaded 9,775 lbs in 191 lb increments. Had 2 helpers makes it easier lol
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
crap big blue you made out like a bandit
New Guy
Hello, everyone. I am a new member here, just joined today.
I have 33 cast iron radiators that I am removing from a commercial building. I took 4 in yesterday, and got about $370. My total ticket was $570 with some other misc. stuff. Copper, brass, electric motors, steel, etc. I thought that was OK. About 3100 pounds worth of radiators, alone. I have 4 more on the trailer right now, and should be able to get 1 or 2 more loads in on Monday. In addition to the radiators, I have the steam boiler with 17 cast iron sections and a bunch of cast iron pipe to take out. It sure is interesting moving these radiators that weigh about 790 pounds by myself!
Some of the radiators are fancy ones, and I hate to scrap them, but I don't know of an outlet to sell them. Any ideas? I have thought about craigslist and ebay, any more ideas?
kevlars
Last edited by kevlars; 04-24-2011 at 01:05 AM.
New Guy
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Howdy fellow scrappers. Just took a load in today consisting of aluminum, copper, motors, batteries, radiators and a few other micellaneous specialty metals and got $704.01. Most we've made in one run and still have more that needs to be taken in. That was all we were able to throw together last night. Got a job of tearing down some sheds for someone this evening and he's paying us $325 to do it. So I'd say that's not a bad day! Can't wait till this weather cooperates with us so we can get more money rolling in. The rain really puts a damper on things, haha.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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Cut the top off with a angle grinder & cut off disc.
Cut the wires inside that run from the motor to the outside of the can.
Pull the motor out & unscrew anything you can see.
Get the anglegrinder again & cut thru the copper wires where they emerge out of the top of the motor.
They will come off in bundles of 1/2 loops, with string holding them together, just to annoy you.
Now make a bonfire & chuck the motor on it so it burns off all of the varnish & insulation.
Now let it cool down & pick the long motor windings out.
Done.
First, with the varnish & crap there, it holds the copper wires together & makes cutting easyer, its also work hardened copper wire at the moment.
Second, after burning the varnish off, theres a lot less to hold the wires inside the motor & now the wires are 'annealed' & soft & it makes it easy to pick them out.
I did this last week & thought.
"Hell, nobody else does this, I can make some real $$$ outta the copper (3Kg? copper wire) & then sell the iron as its heavy"
The only down point was the oil... It ran everywhere around the shed. Congealed all of the dirt into oily gritty mud.
Last edited by eesakiwi; 04-29-2011 at 10:01 PM.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Wow, some serious bucks being made by some of you. I made $285 on my third run ever and that's before learning things on this forum. I know it could've been more now.
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heres something to shoot at, 2009. heaviest load. cottondale fl, to emfinger in Dothan AL. 50 miles. 14,400 LB #1 prepaired steel. truck and car frames. @ .11 cents a pound. pulled it with my 1090 3/4 ton Dodge and a 30 ft wench trailer.
Biggest pay day $4000 + 70 catolytic converters to panhandle converters in Dothan. Sadly those days are over for me, too old to hack it any more.
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You are right ! had casncer and am just getting back after 3 years, lost all my equipment and contacts, but Im coming back one computer at a time if thats what it takes.
Experienced Scrapper
Agreed on that one even aluminum breakage usually pays .30 to .40. But dont feel bad i was getting ripped everytime before i found this site.
Experienced Scrapper
Im not a pro myself but your doing like i used to. You should seperate that metal on front to back on your trailer. Take anything over a quarter inch thick and cut it into two foot sections. Then everything else sitck at the front as light scrap. Youll make a lot more. The Aluminum def. needs to be sorted through better as well.
Just trying to help. Good accumulation though.
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When I was working for my uncle I got a call from someone I had talked to several times to pull some of his junk cars out of his yard in Mesquite, TX. Well he passed away, and he had my card on his desk. His son called me and said I could have them all, no charge just get the out of the yard in 48 hours. 5 mid 80's suburbans, 5 caprices, and 10 other older chevys. I can't remember the total, but I think it was somewhere in the range of 3500 after I took several to the crusher, and the rest to the parts yard. That's the kind of stuff that makes me want to stick with it.
Experienced Scrapper
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scrap metalscrap metalscrap metalscrap metal i need to get myself some business cards and hope somthin simular to that happens! lol
Experienced Scrapper
162 dollars for 2 hours of work!
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YOU could do like I just did; go to Wally World and over in the office section buy a pack of Avery do it yourself business cards, go to the Avery website and download a logo or whatever then put your info on them and print them. I printed mine front and back. Costs me 3.67 per 100. This got me started cheap. hope this helps you without breaking your budget.i need to get myself some business cards
Last edited by Mechanic688; 05-16-2011 at 01:25 PM.
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+1 on that...cheap and easy and you can change the wording to fit your needs as you find out what works best.
Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesaler
Certified Zip-Tie Mechanic
"Give them enough so they can do something with it, but not too much that they won't do nothing."
most for me is a little under 500 with a load of steel and copper.
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