How I organize my scrap area, making scrapping easier and more efficient. - Page 3

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

You mean the power supplies .25lb and cd/dvd drives 1.00+ lb all make it to the shred pile?? Or did I miss something??



If I missed something, I apologize,,,,

Unfortunately I don't have any buyers for power supplies or cd drives around here. They only take them as shred. So I take out all the goodies and shred the rest.
I said carcasses, meaning Ive already stripped the goodies out.

The Power supplies that you see in the back of the truck are still whole though. Sometimes I get more material than I can process in my free time. I sometimes sacrifice some power supplies to knock down my to do list. For me they are to time consuming for little pay out. I end up breaking down about 60% of them. Sred for the other 40%. Depends on how slow its been.

Any more guesses on the weight? It might be hard to tell, but in the trailer they are stacked 2 high.

Ill give other people a chance to guess. I'll give the answer in an hour.

Boooo! you guys are lame.

3340 lbs.

Originally Posted by ParkerFlyer4

Boooo! you guys are lame.

3340 lbs.

I would have drastically under bid . Glad it was over my expectation and here is my mess

Oh almost forgot here is my shop supervisor , he never a misses a beat or a treat .

The boss looks like a hard guy to work for.

Good size load this week. Got a lot of work ahead of me. Everything is piling up and I don't have enough time to keep up! Some would say its a good problem to have. But for me, it stresses me out not being caught up and cleaned up.

When I get a large load like this I make sure to stack same types with same types. Makes the breakdown process more efficient. You get in a rhythm and go way faster when you work on the same type. Then, if you start dragging, start a new type for a while. One thing is a break from another.

I read this thread to find tips to organize my shed to be a good place to work. It has shown me thus.
1. I have a lot of cleaning and moving around to do.
2. I need a LOT more boxes for parts, really need to label as well.
3. Now I have a goal to how full/amount of stuff I should be breaking down one day down the road.

On a side note, with only having so much room what do you all do with larger objects? I want to stick with E-scrap as a hobby but from time to time I see larger stuff. I know my yard will only take shred if its 100+pounds, I don't want to store stuff and junk up my yard/smaller shed but can't really pass up free cash. It may end up with me breaking and turning the back corner of my yard into a "hold till full spot"

Originally Posted by Trickcard

I read this thread to find tips to organize my shed to be a good place to work. It has shown me thus.
1. I have a lot of cleaning and moving around to do.
2. I need a LOT more boxes for parts, really need to label as well.
3. Now I have a goal to how full/amount of stuff I should be breaking down one day down the road.

On a side note, with only having so much room what do you all do with larger objects? I want to stick with E-scrap as a hobby but from time to time I see larger stuff. I know my yard will only take shred if its 100+pounds, I don't want to store stuff and junk up my yard/smaller shed but can't really pass up free cash. It may end up with me breaking and turning the back corner of my yard into a "hold till full spot"

Get a small trailer to load up your shred or flatten what you can like towers and store it in the shed. I keep mine out of sight behind the barn . But a lil awning might work for you .

@Matelbestos: A trailer is is on the "To Get List" (small list I made with stuff to help out /speed up scrapping stuff, tools, shelfs, ect) but that is down the line. Even then parking a smallish trailer in side my back yard will eat up a good bit of it.
@Mechanic688: That could some what work. Behind my shed is were I keep my old popup camper, still pondering if I should sell not much of a camping guy, right now I'm using the small gap between my shed and chain fence to hold stuff. Got a lot of copper clad wire there right now , did get a few cable/sat boxes so not a total loss.

Been lucky and found some good plastic storage bins tho (FREE) so my space is coming along a bit. Just passed up a old rusted electric smoker the other day, piss off wife with clutter or keep for a few coins. Just want to keep this a hobby but would like for it to be some what self paying.

In my case my wife is the clutter collector. I have to clean up after her and the kids most of the time.

I Bought my trailer (the red one in my pics) for $800 on craiglist. I keep it parked on the side of my house and fill it with shred. Once its full I take it to the yard. Shred is the biggest bulkiest scrap so a trailer is a must for a out of home scrapper. Unless you have property and privacy.

I got 20 of these. Not sure what they are. Server switches?



Each one had both of these boards.(front and back)
and a power supply board(not pictured)

Those are data switches and are usually between 24 and 48 ports each but can be as small as 6 and 8 ports. I sold the boards from some last year but cannot remember how they graded them. I have a box just for data switch boards. It makes it easier when I sell them.

Thanks. I will make a data switch box as well. Would smaller, router boards fall in the same category? Like Belkin and Netgear stuff? I get a bunch of that stuff, but I have been selling the boards with my motherboards.

The board in the middle pic was for the LED lights. What grade would this be?

Originally Posted by ParkerFlyer4

Thanks. I will make a data switch box as well. Would smaller, router boards fall in the same category? Like Belkin and Netgear stuff? I get a bunch of that stuff, but I have been selling the boards with my motherboards.

The board in the middle pic was for the LED lights. What grade would this be?

I'm not sure about the middle pic but yes I put the small router boards in the same box.

Some pics of my stash:

Computer stacks are old pics but good ones. All have been broken down a while ago.

CD/DVD drives to break down later.

Bunch of laptops. I HATE laptops. I will be looking for a buyer as soon as I can fill a pallet.

My hard drive tower. I've pulled all the boards, and I'm trying to decide if I want to break em down completely or sell whole......... Seems like a daunting task. There is around 750 there.

More of the ole' stash

-Another daunting task. Separate the copper from the aluminum. This is work saved for slow days.

-My motherboards in Dino Bags. Can fit about 140 lbs. in each one. My barrel full of gold plug ends. Still haven't decided what to do with these.... 5 gallon bucket with wall warts. Will pull (smash) the transformers out later.

-Power supply ends and other ends w/out gold. What do you guys do with these? are they worth saving at all?