Everyone's Averages?

Just checking if anyone wanted to post what they feel their daily, weekly, and/or monthly incomes before expenses was just from scrapping? I understand it can very widely, but if you could put a number on it... what would it be for you....



I thought it might be inspirational for others out there....

Personally... I'm so new, that I couldn't put a finger on it yet...

But what little I made has excited me tremendously...

Some weeks in the thousands....Some weeks in the hundreds......You get out of it what you put into it

kind of like playing poker for me. there are really no averages for a small scrapper untill the end of the year.

@olddude, I can understand that...

@mikeinreco, hundreds is crazy exciting to me, but thousands... I really wouldn't know what to think...

Thanks for your responses

I have made over a grand in a day with scrap metal.....Granted this is with a specific job set up and the metal is ready and just loaded and hauled....This type of job takes prep, planning, and of course money and equipment.....Anyways good luck and remember I haul with a long bed pickup and a 20ft trailer which I have hauled up to 5500 lbs of metal safely with this setup

average? $300-400 a week plus the escrap and whatever gets sold on craigslist. can be lots more or lots less depending on lots of things! lol

When I first started out I thought I didn't have time or space to deal with steel! I would pass it up and look for the "good stuff" Alum, copper, brass. I make more money now with picking up steel. Steel contributed 55% of all the cash I got last year! And it was 87% of the weight LOL

Originally Posted by hobo finds

When I first started out I thought I didn't have time or space to deal with steel! I would pass it up and look for the "good stuff" Alum, copper, brass. I make more money now with picking up steel. Steel contributed 55% of all the cash I got last year! And it was 87% of the weight LOL

Yep and u can get steel cheap or for free

Had a pretty busy year with other stuff. 2011 gave a lil over $15k in scrapping income. Almost $11k of it was iron & car weight.