You guys get much stuff off the side of the road? - Page 2

in suburban city streets...just got some aluminum screens, a snow blower, and a tv. not bad for my drive home from work.



seems like a lot of work for springs.

Originally Posted by Kris Kringle

Yeah y'all can have the Found mattresses and the bed bugs that come with them I don't need money that bad.

brings new meaning to the term "bitten by the scrap bug"

Now I could see the box spring....I have removed the metal frame inside of one in an alley several times....Takes about five minutes if you know what you are doing
They take up alot of space and don't weigh anything, Felt kinda silly with a couple grand in my pocket beating out old box springs but whatever it takes I guess

those mattress springs are heavy guys they add up fast

Are the springs steel then? I always assumed it was cheaper shred quality.

Originally Posted by Onee

Nothing wrong with that. If you actually did go through bins you would probably get a hell of a lot of scrap but someone would probably call the police.

As long as you don't live in the state of california, u should be ok. the curbside is public property, and when they set something out on the curb for garbage, they are forfeiting their ownership. I'll go through cans, in fact, because lots of cities are going automated, a majority of metal is hidden inside the carts. Around Christmas time especially, i went through one cart and got about 100lbs of christmas lights.

You have to watch it with trash-picking though. Some communities are saying that once property is abandoned at the curb is is either the property of the municipality or the trash company. I don't know whether enforcement is a ticket or what.

Here on Long Island its common knowledge that if you put something at the curb it will get picked up. I get loads of monitors and tv's etc on garbage nights

I tryed stripping mattresses once. The metal seemed to be light, generated to much trash, and to much work for the little bit of money. Yard wouldn't take them unless completly striped down.

I have heard that the wire framed mattresses are good for burning copper off on.

He put something down on the ground to lift the mattresses off the ground a few inches & then laid all of the copper wire out on it & lit one corner & watched as it burnt from one end to the other.

This was at night in the country areas soes its safe.

Originally Posted by Backwell

Are the springs steel then? I always assumed it was cheaper shred quality.

Not to be rude but that is what shred is.It's steel.

The scrap yard I frequent have several people with stripped down mattresses on their load. I often see guys with 6-10 matresses springs stacked on their load. It seems like a big hassle that would generate a lot of trash. But I am sure after you have stripped a few, it would go fast.