I helped another scrapper today, or at least I tried to
...but he either thought I was lying or didn't want to take it... or maybe he didn't see it.
While at a stop today - rare for me CL curbside ad that I drove to that wasn't far - I am loading/filling up the bed with steel, a dryer, a bunch of very heavy iron that I could hardly get in the bed, some aluminum and a trash barrel full of crushed aluminum cans and a bunch of thick solid core copper wire, and I see a red truck pulling a trailer with random metal items on it - he slows down and sees me - then speeds back up.
I flag him down and tell him that I am going to be full and that around the corner there's a water heater and some brake rotors - cause someone else driving by in a Tundra saw me and told me, cause he figured out I was a scrapper - talked for a few minutes told me how he used to scrap and how prices went down to 60/ton etc...
:-o
The other scrapper and his girlfriend/wife (I assume) thanked me and drove off.
Out of curiosity when I was finally done, I went around the corner and... the water heater and rotors were still there with copper pipe attached. I found a way to make it fit on the truck. Rotors of course fit. I don't know why he didn't pick it up.
I live in Denver with millions of people (Denver Metro Area - 2.8 million) and although there are a ton of scrappers there is so much waste that there is no reason why people shouldn't be able to find plenty of free metal, so although other scrappers are my competition, not to sound arrogant but they really don't affect me to the point where I don't mind helping them out to a certain point - (maybe cause I do this part time), or at least when I know someone else is going to pickup something anyway if they see it cause my truck is full and I have 2 more appointments lined up anyway and I am running low on time.
