Serious Collapse Of Steel Racking

OK so this was odiously planed and took over an hour of prep work but man this was cool

and I guess someone will eventually ask where this was and why were we taking down a store rack well...... I bought Zellers Store #4XX for the sum total of 15% of the scrap value of what we remove which is everything.....there was a great many Scrappy Mc Junkies buzzing around for scraps but the fact of the matter is that there is not very many people in my area that can organize and clear out wall to wall a DEPARTMENT store in 6 days.

15 Percent seems kinda low to me. I wouldn't do it for less then 50/50 at the minimum. Shoot high or else you are never gonna reach the stars.

You couldn't have paid upfront due to not knowing what the end weight would be. How did you work that out? Great score guys. Keep up the videos also......

Originally Posted by PistoneScrapProcessing

15 Percent seems kinda low to me. I wouldn't do it for less then 50/50 at the minimum. Shoot high or else you are never gonna reach the stars.

50% was the labor cost at minimum wage for 6 guys so sounds like you have never been contracted to take down racking before..... no offense

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

I did a Rite Aid one time wall to wall metal shelving.....I think it ended up being round $2000 in scrap.....Sorry to say but 6 days is a little slow.....I did it in 3 LMFAO.....Oh yeah that is with only one helper

6 days, 6 employees, 2 1000 lb safes, one 40 yard bin every day, 46 tonnes of bail total, then if you notice there were bassists on both sides of the fixtures had to be separated....(with copper wire ch ching).... and then the store was empty. I did very little of the work myself in fact I almost did nothing but stand around and talk to people.

Originally Posted by jackshmuc

I did very little of the work myself in fact I almost did nothing but stand around and talk to people.

Some days it good to be the Boss

Originally Posted by divapickers

You couldn't have paid upfront due to not knowing what the end weight would be. How did you work that out? Great score guys. Keep up the videos also......

it depends on the liquidator consultant if they want a lump sum (which I offered) or if they wanted a percent with my crew doing the labor. this time it was a percent. I like the lump sum buy out because then i can remove every thing early and not have to go back after. I also like the percent because this time when the prices were going down it helped i ended up paying less then my offered price less of a chance that way of loosing to much cash.

after the store is empty I just bring in the scrap yard slips and pay a percent of that.

Originally Posted by JohnC4X4

Some days it good to be the Boss

if you can handle the stress its always good to be the Boss

Originally Posted by jackshmuc

if you can handle the stress its always good to be the Boss

The Stress is why I said "Some Days"

I have taken apart plenty of pallet racking in my lifetime but I just always grab it with the bobcat and grapple bucket and rip it apart and smash it into a container. No need for labor that is what they make machines for. Way easier to do it that way to.