Electric Motor Haul

Scrap electric motors were in my way and I finally had to get them out. Local yard would only pay 12 cents a pound for them...I needed to go pickup a drum of oil about an hour away from me, and I located a yard right along the way...the quoted 25 cents a pound!

They seemed really nice, while they wouldn't give me the 25 cents a pound for a huge Copeland compresser and some transformer type welders, they paid 15 cents a pound which I was happy with.

1866 pound of motors at 25 cents a pound
866 pounds of "Sealed unit" at 15 cents a pound

Payout was $596.40, sure helped pay for the oil I bought!



I need to see if they will send roll offs down here, its nice to deal with a yard that is friendly and pays fair prices!

I recently had 1200 lbs of electric fan motors, if i had taken them in as is would have made $300 off them

Instead i took them all apart and recovered 165 lbs of number 2 copper, @ 3.40 per lb, got $561

I also got 72 lbs of cast aluminum, and the rest of the metal to turn in.

Awesome load, But I want to give you a little advice on the copeland compressor. If you return them to most HVAC supply houses you can get paid a core fee for them. This can be anywhere from $35.00 for a "K" body and up, I recently returned a Cope compressor to my local supply house and was paid $790.00 and I paid the guy cast iron price for it. Great day that day lol

MDJ, is that for the semi-hermatic compressors?

10-4 good buddy