Scrapping several mobile homes

I have been given several mobile homes to scrap 12x80 foot can anyone give me the most effenciant way of scrapping them from walking threw the door walk me threw it?

I would try to sell them as is to someone else. There will be a lot of waste material that you would be better off having roll off containers delivered to save yourself time a fuel. With the price of shred in many parts of the country at $100 or less per ton, you will not make much money from the metal frame. There will be some wiring, but it won't be much. If you have the time, you could try to sell doors and windows from people wanting/needing to repair their own mobile home. I'm usually very positive on most scrap jobs. However, I don't even look at mobile homes unless someone is paying me to remove it and scrap it.

Thanks Numbers guess I went blonde there for a min when I wrote that post forgot to say they are paying me to remove them and there are 3 of them. I own 10 flat acres where I can park them to tear them down. A friend is going to pick them up FREE for me and i'll have 6 people besides myself working on stripping them all down. I've got TONS of items to work with everything from 5 power saws to a cutting torch. I just lost my daddy on Aug 18th 2014 so i'm taking up his favorite hobby before he retired he was a fabricator/head of mant. So i've pretty much got a little of everything...LOL

There is some information here as well as YouTube.
You will find that there is a lot of " fluff", material that you'll have to dispose of .
Do your research before you start.
Good luck.
Be safe!

Look below the last post and there is some "similar threads" listed, might have some extra info for you.

Thanks Guys, We're getting ready to leave out to take a look at them and see what they are then will go back with 2 tractor and trailer to get them out Sat Morning.

gut them then burn them. My landlord is the fire chief of our city. All I do is take all the aluminium,copper, and other stuff I can get. I tell him I have a training building for him, he does his thing. I go back in and get the frame and any other copper etc . Run a tractor over the property then I'm done.

If you can get access to a small excavator it will make the job a lot easier. I know a couple of people who set up and remove mobiles where I live both use excavators, order roll off dumpsters, and a couple of people on the ground wth rakes to make piles of small stuff. Your dad may have known someone with a machine or you might be able to rent one just has to be able to reach a little above the roof of the mobile. Takes a little practice but is fun to learn and the only thing you need to be careful of is people (#1) your cars, trailers, tools, and the trash bin. Anything you want to save take out by hand then have at it, after mobile #1 you'll be a pro and the others will go quickly. You will end up with mostly dirty aluminum from all the staples but will have saved a lot of time and can use the machine to load the scrap on your trailer, after plenty of practice on the mobile. Make a pile of burn able stuff to save on trash fees. Remember your being paid to remove and dispose of the trailers any scrap you come up with afterward is a bonus that will help pay for expenses as it will not cover the cost of trash alone, and then there's your time, fuel, vehicle maintenance, tools ect. HAVE fUN!! If there's a big enough need in the area maybe you can turn it into a business.

Again your ALL great Thanks so much. one of my crew has access to all sorts of different equipment and is working with me just for the frames under the trailers to make lowboy's out of using my cutting torch and my portable welder he might live 1,000 feet from me and has 2 huge fields to work in Besides the 10 acres I own so what we will do is drag the trailers back here and work on site taking them down so we have access to all the different tools and equipment we may need. Ron has a peace of equipment where u can work from the top and tear down but we're gonna use that first to take down my corn crib and barn. We're both wanting to get our places back into what today's world knows as Homesteading I just always knew it as country living as a child raise ur own food and depend on yourself to make it and not a bossman. I've already found with good ads you'll have more work than u can handle so far we've had 10 trailers one is a doublewide offered to us and with this lot of goodies i'm expanding my doublewide with the addition of the other one i'll have a 2,500 square foot home. Ron is using one that's in live in condition for his father in law a place to live on his property and a few will be use as storage, animal Etc buildings and fencing we're gonna have a lot of WOOD why not put it to use right? I am eager for knowledge and i've found in my 50 years on this earth it's best to jump right in with knowledgeable people and get er done...LOL

When I was down in Kansas there was a guy that used a trailer frame to cross a small creek, as the bridge framework. Beefed it up some then added the wood planking. Pulled the axles after setting it.

I'd burn everything you can legally burn it reduces some waste