what do you stuff your scrap vehicle full of for more weight?

You stuffed a car with aluminum frames??? I just fill cars with general junk. I've got a pile I fill oil barrels that have been cut in two, refrigerators/freezers/stoves and anything that will hold something. But window frames get torn apart for (approx) .54 vs .05 a pound.

Since I usually keep the spare wheel/tire assemblies, I've found that the spare tire well of a junker is great for filling up with low-grade small metal junk from my shop. Oil filters (drained, of course), wiper blades, steel cans from oil/transmission additives, rusted-out mufflers and things like that. My yard treats me good on my steel, cars and aluminum, so I make sure anything I "stuff" with is strictly metal. They're probably glad to see my stuffing compared to the guys who try to sneak in wood, extra tires and junk like that.

I also get plenty of excess exhaust pipe that I cut off of my cats from my core business, so that goes in the clunkers, too. The good stuff like rotors, drums, steel wheels and hub assemblies get saved up for their own load. I need to stuff and scrap a car soon, my tin pile is getting huge

Aluminum window frames are ridiculously easy to disassemble. Then take the die cast out of the corners. Die cast goes in one bucket. Glass goes to the landfill and aluminum goes in Extruded Aluminum barrel.

I stuff them with carcasses from microwaves, air conditioners, humidifiers. Nuts, bolts, nails, screws, all the smalls and anything I don't want to handle again.

Originally Posted by valleyscrapping

my scrap yard does not care if i have the glass in them, there are already windows in the truck so they dont mind. i started this thread to get some good ideas to what common things i could throw in the vehicles to get alot more weight. i dont see why aluminum is not cool, it would still end up in the tin pile with the cab. my scrap yard seperates the cab and frame so they would end up in the same place

Yes, but this forum is about maximizing profits and learning, so when you say that you are getting shred price for AL window frames, its like swearing!!! For us, its like throwing money out the window.

You can get 0.55 to 0.75 cents a pound for extruded AL instead of .08 to 0.12 cents for shred...

Anything that isnt non ferrous or cast like brake rotors. I throw in computer carcasses, old car parts, rims, anything ferrous really...

Why not put brake rotors in as well?

Originally Posted by JunkLady

Why not put brake rotors in as well?

Because brake rotors will bring #1 iron pricing.

lawn furniture, appliances, ewaste leftovers, basically anything with ferrous metal on it except drums, rotors, and clean steel rims, I will toss in the odd bucket of wire insulation from stripping wire. I will also pour the used oil from my truck or doing oil changes for others in with the oil of a scrapper.

I have known of people filling gas tanks with water or hosing down cloth seats but I won't do that since I like being able to go to the yard I go to and don't feel like getting banned, now if the windows are down and it happens to rain thats different

Originally Posted by shaun319

lawn furniture, appliances, ewaste leftovers, basically anything with non ferrous metal on it except drums, rotors, and clean steel rims, I will toss in the odd bucket of wire insulation from stripping wire. I will also pour the used oil from my truck or doing oil changes for others in with the oil of a scrapper.

I have known of people filling gas tanks with water or hosing down cloth seats but I won't do that since I like being able to go to the yard I go to and don't feel like getting banned, now if the windows are down and it happens to rain thats different

I think you mean "ferrous". What is the "oil of a scrapper"?