- This our dump. What should I be grabbing that's fairly quick to get?
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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Easy targets: Brass valves + copper pipes left on the hot water tanks, electric motors, car/truck batteries, aluminum house siding, aluminum barbecue grills. Propane tanks have their own forum thread, it is very important to read it if you want to deal with. Lawn movers are a pain to separate clean cast aluminum from iron and usually very oil and grease dirty. If you want to take a picture with your cell and post it here, we can have a look and see if we spot something else.
NEW TO SCRAPPING? READ THIS: Build up your horde of magnetic and non-magnetic metals in two piles until you have a better understanding of the business. Magnetic material has low value and is mostly always steel / shred / short iron. Read old threads about non-magnetic metals and ewaste (and how to sort them), but don't forget that they generally have absolutely no tolerance for contamination (screw / iron / foreign material).
Experienced Scrapper
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Yeah, I will take some photos when I go up. I have to get rid of the plastic and crt shellfrom last nights van session so I'll give it a good scan. Do you just take a hacksaw and cut them flush with the tanks and separate later usually? I imagine it would attract attention if you were sitting there with a grinder or sawzall. I grabbed a bbq shell last week that was cast aluminum. Probably ten pounds or so. What do yards pay for batteries usually? I think there's a place in Fort St. John that buys them for like $5 each or something like that but I don't know if they are on par with other places. I guess I can take one to the yard and if it's less than $5 just take it to the other place or hang on to it.
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