no one around buys appliances

I thank both of your responses. I did take a motor off of one of the washers to haul in, with other motors I had, but turns out it was a aluminum wired motor and not worth the 25/cents a pound offered for copper motors I guess I have a lot to learn.

Another thing to look for is on the dryers if you take the drum out from the top quite often you will find loose change in the bottom of the dryer (usually better than half the time). It may only be a coin or two, but I have found almost $20 in change in one and about $15 in another, so you never know. Some folks have found an occasional small piece of jewelry (I have found 2 gold filled, no solid yet). Also, save your small pieces of scrap steel/iron, and when you are ready to scrap the washer or dryer, throw the small pieces in the drum. Needless to say will add weight, and gives you something to hold the small pieces.

Since your yard won't buy appliances, after youstrip the goodies, make a cut down the side of the body, flatten it out & sell it as tin.

Welcome to the board. I'm in your state in the cities. Good luck with your scrapping, You're ahead of me since I've never done cars or appliances...yet. I stick to small stuff for the most part.

You've had some great tips already.

i dont understand why your yard wont take appliances. does anyone else on here know why or go to yards like this? All the local yards around me take them.

Some yards call it "white metal" and don't like to take it b/c of the coating that is on the out side. I've only heard of yards like that as mine will take everything. Personally I would look for a different yard.

Some yards call it "white metal" and don't like to take it b/c of the coating that is on the out side

Does that mean they won't take auto's or auto body parts? (their painted also)

Really the reason that some yards still don't accept them is earlier on this century(21st) there was a huge amount of cheap steel coming out of China and steel mills couldn't make any profit from refining so a lot of them shut down. There are only twenty-something steel mills left....... thats sucks compared to how many there were in the 40's. Now that prices have gone back up not many scrap yards will refuse white goods. I believe the paint on an appliance is different than that on a car, so there shouldn't be any problems with a yard taking them. White goods are coated(usually) with an epoxy powder.

Thanks you all for the good tips. It is much appreciated. The two local yards in the area, both owned by the same company, call appliances "white metals'. This includes any household appliance, such as fridge, oven/stove, furnace, hot water heater, microwave, dishwasher, etc. They wont even take car batteries. Well, I think they will take them but not pay for them. I've tried searching on the internet for any yards within 150 miles and nobody I've found will accept white metals.

Appliances are 90% of my weekly income! My yard loves them, I love them, and people give them to me for free nearly every day now. I honestly probably wouldn't be in this business without them. Sometimes I'm not even able to break them down at all (besides snipping a cord)...just too many to haul and on the flip side, I sell all my working ones to one of two local appliance dealers, who, more often than not, will buy and refurbish them for sale.

I've now got into the realm of selling parts and accessories (mostly off of refrigerators/dishwashers) on eBay. Another revenue stream that is very untapped.

Good luck!