Did a good deed and got rewarded !

so the other day someone calls me up and says he has a big piece of metal. when i get there he has about 2000 lbs of these machines to blow up bouncing houses . all they were were huge eletric motors surrounded by a little metal shaped like a box so loaded them up and took em home. over the past few days i tried everything to cut the box shaped metal casing off but it seemed the only way would be with a cutting torch. so today i loaded them up and dumped them off at the scrap yard as light iron (13/lb) i put them all to the side out of reach of the crane. i then went inside and told the guy at the window that i dumped them as light iron but theyre motors because they had the outer casing and that i put them to the side for them if they wanna tell the crane guy to grab them and bring em in. he says "wow thats nice of you thanks.'' he prints me out the original ticket then prints me out an additiona ticket for an extra 300 pounds . i thank him and leave.. thats why i believe in karma especially in this business.

If they were motors they could have been copper, a lot of copper wasted?

Holy crap I would have found some way to get those motors off. Even turning in the motors whole i would have gotten .25/lb each!

If you broke the motors down and tore out the copper you could have made a killing!!

I agree guys, but gameday is a fairly new scrapper. I would advise him to seek help from the forum before taking something like that in for shred price in the future.

no i knew i could make alot more but honestly im happy how it turned out ive been doing business with that yard for a while so maybe theyll gimme better prices and itll even out in the future. and ive been so busy lately i didnt have the time to cut them up honestly

If you haven't got a torch, a cheaper version of this works wonders:

http://www.northerntool.com/images/p.../399507_lg.jpg

It will eat through casings like a hot knife through butter.

You can sh!t in one hand and wish in the other and see which one fills up first. Scrap yards are in business to make money and lots of it. The yard did a great job of ripping you off congrats I guess. Think about it they gave you half the price you should have been given and the gave you 300 lbs over at 12 cents a lb. Do the math grab a calculator and some vaseline you are going to need it. If you don't have the time to work on them then you should have piled them up in the garage and waited till you had the time to mess with them or went on the forum first posted a picture and asked how do I get these things apart. Oh well to late now you just let the yard make 500 easy dollars off of you without even touching the material.

wayne i have one of those but the space between the metal casing and the motor was way to small to fit a sawzall would have been the only way and mine wasnt powerful enough to cut the metal and psp i understand they got the better of the deal but sometimes being a good person is more rewarding then making a bunch of money.

It doesn't matter so much if it fits that way or not. You are scrapping, so you don't have to be neat or precise. Turn the housing round a different way and cut it differently. Rather than top to bottom try left to right. Or diagonally. Basically, just chop the casing off and if the first one takes you a while and you end up with lots of steel on the floor the size of postage stamps then consider it an education. We all had to start somewhere.

Just bare in mind that if you chop into the motor a bit it's not going to matter, because after all the casings are off you should be chopping all the motors up anyway.

i usually dont take the copper out of motors i just cash em in as eletric motors and its tough to explain you guys wouldve had to see this thing to understand how annoying it was trying to cut it

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Originally Posted by gamedayron

i usually dont take the copper out of motors i just cash em in as eletric motors and its tough to explain you guys wouldve had to see this thing to understand how annoying it was trying to cut it

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I will take your word on it. There are plenty of times that I just say fark it and chuck it a different bin. All the while thinking what you guys would say to me, but some things just don't deserve the attention as others do when the garage is OVER full and there are other more profitable things to get to.

The yard could of said thank you and not given anything extra but instead gave an extra $39. You also let them know you understand the value of what your selling. I visit 1 yard 90% of the time (30 miles from home) and most of what I sell them is completely broken down, but if I am doing a pickup in town and need to turn items quickly I take them there and they give me better than shred (light iron) pricing. I believe in a good relationship with your yard and with your suppliers works to everyone's advantage.

ive seen those things... you probably just coulda turned them in as motors even with the casing.

Ive turned in motors with the machines still attached...

probably depends on the yard tho

Live and ya learn thats what I was always told