Printable View
I was out visiting my parents for the day and they had a washer and dryer being delivered by Lowe's. After the truck arrived, I found out that they take the old appliances and store them in a storage container. I gave them a card and talked about what I recycle. They said I could have everything off their truck if I wanted, that it would save them paperwork and unloading. Sure! I got a refrigerator, wash & dryer and 3 stoves.
thats pretty cool, good thinking. How many stoves have you found to have them silver buttons?
Only a few
Large places like that usually work with recycling companies (see https://www.jacoinc.net/) to take away the appliances they end up with from the "free removal of your old appliance" deals. The companies themselves (like lowes) deliver and remove old appliances, and also they contract out some of these deliveries to a third party sometimes. It's good to find these third party places to start with. You can just place a trailer or container at their warehouse and empty it every week or so.
I talked with 2 guys from a large box store they said if there paper work shows they are removing the old items they had to return to the warehouse with them. I did get a washer and dry that the customer chose at the time of delivery to have the old items removed and the paper work didn't say anything about a pickup so they gave them to me so they didn't have to do paper work on it.
I took all six appliances in after stripping everything from knobs to motors. I am very lucky because my dryer at home has a broken bar for the tumbler and I scrapped the same model. I stripped all useable pieces to trade out for future problems. I had a little over 900 lbs light iron @ 100/gt, 7 lbs #2 insulated at .47/lb (didn't sell that), 2 lbs Aluminum and 35 lbs of motors. Only one motor was copper. I walked away with $36 just for iron shred.
Now my next door neighbor said he took in 1200 lbs of chain link fence and they told him they no longer take it because it jams up there shredders. He was so baffled, especially when they still unloaded it and dumped it in their shred pile.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollyrogers33
I presume they paid him if they took the metal. Perhaps they did not want to leave him high and dry...
They left him high and dry. I admit it is tough out there and everyone is trying to make it one way or another. Its hard to admit but it is happening everywhere.
Last week I was at my plastic buyer getting rid of junk. The owner actually came out to inspect my stuff. He went through everything, everything! I am not there to rip him off. I am there to make money and get rid of junk. My stuff that I sell there doesn't make or break me, but makes that little bit of extra stuff. Anyways, I had 50lbs of mixed plastic, VCR's, Blu-ray's and other junk. Plastic is .05/lb, white plastic is more if separated and all electronics are .05/lb. Anyways he started picking plastic out…this is garbage, this is garbage…ABS only!!! I didn't know, now I know. Thank you. No metal mixed in…Can't buy it…Ok, but you buy dirty plastic so I sell it and take the hit…Its fine... Later when they took my load to the scales they had everything on one skid. I saw a young guy going through my load talking about the white plastic and trying to separate it. Boss said leave it and weighed everything up together and bought everything at .04/lb…I didn't find out until they were paying me my money.
300lbs of junk at .04/lb…No big deal? Its all principle. You can't see the scale weight that comes up, so they are probably shave pounds off too. I was so irritated…
Like I said its going everywhere and almost everyone is struggling. Some that are weak will cheat and do shady things to get ahead…not me!
Man, I would appreciate a plastics buyer within a reasonable distance.
No one nearby and no ability to store up quantities that make transport feasible.
Into the trash it goes.
One of the uses of chain link fence I have seen at scrap yards is as a big broom. Here they sweep the shred pile with it to get the smaller bits up toward the pile giving a safer place to back up to. Mike
As above it makes a good broom. My local (hour away, all relative I guess) shredder didnt used to take wire at all, for the reason of it wrapping up in the shredder. But they've got a big baler now, so they take all the wire and crunch it into a square. Pretty easy to stack too.Quote:
Originally Posted by miked