I have a ranch in SW texas with huge metal buildings and silos. Is it worth scrapping? Going to need heavy equipment. Thank u for your replies.
New Guy
I have a ranch in SW texas with huge metal buildings and silos. Is it worth scrapping? Going to need heavy equipment. Thank u for your replies.
What is your shred price down there and will any of your yards drop a roll-off for you to load the steel in?
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Welcome Buck, kind of sounds as if you are asking if it is worth it for someone else to scrap the metals.
If so then yes you could sell the rights for someone to come in and remove them.
If you do it yourself you can make much more but not sure that is an option for you.
Please expand on this if you would.
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New Guy
Thank you for the replies. Would it be worth renting all the heavy equipment or sell the rights. I'm new to scrapping. There are 8 or 9 huge metal buildings. Probably 100 yards long and fifty ft. wide. 5 or six trucks over five tons each. Probably fifteen huge silos. Numerous electric motors,etc. Thank you again for all the replies.
It sounds like you're going to be better off selling the scrapping rights. Do your scrapyards bid on clean up jobs?
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Where in tx are u? what kinda split would u want on the scrap if u contracted the job out?
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You should call someone to haul the trucks for you, do all the misc stuff yourself and the see if someone is willing to tear down the buildings for the scrap if your not interested in doing it at that pointOriginally Posted by buck
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Good question, but you can move it can't you?
I've done that a time or two myself. Been trying real hard to be good. lol
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buck what part of texas are you in? I live in texas as well and run a scrap yard. I would not mind getting all of that taken care of for you if your not far from me.
Also on a side note...have you thought about renting it out? Some people would love to rent a building that size for there company or even park there cars/trucks in.
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I would start with the smaller stuff like the electric motors and trucks. Use the money from that to rent the equipment to do the larger stuff.
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Buck what part of texas are you in?
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Are you sure you can't sell the buildings at least as useable? I've bought a used metal warehouse once and resold it in the wine country for a wine warehouse. I just bet it's worth a lot more as a useable building or useable building parts than as scap even during these soon-to-end-scrap-bubble-prices.
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I know a guy who buys metal buildings from school district auctions all over the United States. He picks these up for around $5,000. He goes out there with a boom lift and takes it apart piece by piece. He them sells them to farmers on the condition they pay him to put them back up. He travels and picks up a helper when needed. Gets to the farmers proprty, parks his camp trailer on-site and lives there rent free for 3-6 months while he pours the foundation and puts up the building. Makes over ($300,000 was a typo and corrected) $30.000 a year and lives for free
Last edited by NoMoreScrapLeft; 01-07-2012 at 10:30 AM.
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He's there 3-6 months but makes 300k a year...something doesn't jive.
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I'm sorry I ment to type $30,000. I accidently put in an extra zero. My bad
He does between 2 and 4 buildings a year with around over $10,000 profit on each one.
Last edited by NoMoreScrapLeft; 01-07-2012 at 10:33 AM.
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Thanks for the correction, makes more sense now.
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Sorry to say I think Buck is no longer with us!
No No I don't mean he passed away but He post 2 times and has not been back! But with or without Buck the thread must go on!
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Is that like passing the Buck?
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Or, The Buck stops here!
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