profitable?

That's an awesome post Cory, and a great success story, along with some very interesting, cold, hard, facts, which touch on the flip side of your success ( I almost believe you'd be successful at most anything Cory, with your present frame of mind. So, the flip side might go something like this,

Originally Posted by Germanwolf

me and three friends. four people......me and my fiancee and my friend josh live in the one trailer, my friend and the other one live in the other trailer

To me that adds up to 5? Which one owns the property? He'll likely want(and probably get) the biggest say in anything happening there. You don't need something in writing there, you need it chiseled in stone.

Originally Posted by Germanwolf

we were planning on putting another trailer on his property

Who's supplying the trailer, who's bringing it in and setting it up, who's footing the bill?

Originally Posted by Germanwolf

could four people, two per truck, make enough to survive off just that? each truck hitting up diff towns on a route?

It's getting fairly rugged out there man, not wanting to burst your bubble, but just today I noticed on a quick trip to town, I took the dirt route, usually a clean air, totally "green"(except maybe in winter ; ) drive.
1. Saw on side the road a huge pile of trash (never seen this before, and I've known these dirt routes since I was born), but not just any trash, a huge big screen tv totally stripped of any innards and boards, two tires with the rims missing, and a golve box spare they didn't bother to remove the "tin" rim from, all just tossed on the side of the road.
2. In town noticed a guy walking down an old trashy drainage, his gf/fiance/wife , although reluctantly, not far behind. As I passed by his pickup noticed some rusted stuff in the bed, maybe a hundred pounds at best (worth about $6 here)
3. When leaving a care facility saw, for the second time, an old wheelchair and folded tin roof gutter from yesterday, behind the maintenence, with a new addition, some galvanized vents, adding maybe another dime to the mix.

some people get "lucky", but the odds are dwindling, and the competition is getting severe.
From 1. I deduced one thing, word gets around
From 2. I could only pity the couple, doing all they could find to do
From 3. I could only figure new accounts are few, far between, hard to find, and very slim

We really don't need more scrap, we need more jobs, I think you'd do well hoping for one too, where you could have a steady check, and your own (even if steadily rented) place


If you're planning to attempt this venture, I wish you well, although what I really wish is we had more jobs here, but it seems they've mostly been shipped to other countries, same as the majority of our scrap has been

Originally Posted by Germanwolf

minus gas and insurance would that be profitable?

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