What did you scrap?

[Heartkill]

This morning's load:

880lb. tin - $116.60

[hobo finds]

270 lbs sheet iron / steel price up to .11 a lb.

$29.70 total

[cwgii]

mother in law 's arrival made me clean up the yard. 26 # cans, 76# of plastic. yesterday the yard was closed when i showed up at 4.30 sat. so i had to haul the load of glass home

[Treasurekidd]

I hauled in a yard waste bag full of cans, some old aluminum windows frames, a couple of old electric motors (17lbs each), and a few pounds each of brass and stainless yesterday. I don't bother weighing it all, but I got $90 for it, which is some good beer money. Time to start piling it up again!

[maoguinn]

36 lbs of elec. motors @ .15 lb - $5.40
72 lbs of #2 steel @ $240 a ton - $8.64
5 lbs of dirty brass @ .50 lb - $2.50
6 lbs of red brass @ 1.90 lb - $11.40
22 lbs of yellow brass @ 1.50 lb - $33.00

total - $60.94

[cwgii]

1220 # glass today

[cwgii]

down to 600#, as yet another bar got taken over by the competition.

[hobo finds]

yesterday in So. AZ 380 lbs sheet iron/ steel .11 lb

Total $41.80

[silversaddle1]

Kansas City, Kansas. 11,980 pounds of computer cabinets and mainframe chassis.

$1287.00

3120 pounds of insulated copper wire

Taking bids


Good week so far.

[hirbonzig]

53lbs AL cans @ .60/lb $31.80

[adagirl]

15 lbs of aluminum cans for $8.25

[hobo finds]

yesterday in So. AZ 300 lbs sheet iron / steel .11 lb

Total $33.00

[abe]

17 lbs alum. cans $11.05
old riding mower & tiller $41.40

$52.45

[hobo finds]

Today in So. AZ

200 lbs sheet iron price up to .115 lb
11 lbs diecast zinc .15 lb (price sam as last Dec)
6 lbs #2 copper $3.00 lb (price up .40 from Dec)
3 lbs #2 ins wire (price down .05 from Mar)
18 lbs #1 ins wire (price up .15 from Dec)
$78.20 Total

The guy at the scale told me that all the wire was #2. I showed him the #1 stuff he pulled out a few pieces than said ok. I go into get paid and see that he mixed up the weights on the #1 and #2 insulated in my favor. I told the pay out guy he could switch them back as I will be overpaid on it. He said ok, but kept it the same so I made an extra $11.25

[adagirl]

good for you!

[hobo finds]

410 more pounds sheet iron / steel @ .115 lb

$47.15 total

[cwgii]

how did i get the same >???

50 pounds of plastic at .30
50 pounds al cans also.

now that the baler is working at my drop off .......... maybe those beer boxes will be worth something.. btw. 50 boxes.==35 pounds.

number 2 plastic may also become saleable.

5 hours work== 459 pounds of broken glass== 27.54

[hobo finds]

Look at this home made baler. We should make a few and sell them. http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/topic/vermicomp ... 73-12.html

[cwgii]

not sure if it was just me, but i did not see any attached pictures.

1755# of glass, sunday+monday

[adagirl]

not sure if it was just me, but i did not see any attached pictures.

1755# of glass, sunday+monday

I didn't see any pictures either.

[hobo finds]

No pics... But if I build it I will take some

[adagirl]

No pics... But if I build it I will take some

excellent!

[cwgii]

520 pounds of steel on friday. /012

420 steel today
66 of motors at .30

[fansubs_ca]

This week 250 lbs of steel at 10¢/lb for $25 total. They seem to have one price for steel
and not care about any glass or plastic on it.

Most was from the dishwasher I replaced last fall and the stove my immediate neighbor
was getting rid of a few weeks back. That dishwasher had a _lot_ of metal in it! (I think
it was older than me. ^_-)

Took 2 trips (by shopping cart, no vehicle), on the 2nd trip the bin they keep near the
front for small loads of steel was full so they told me to take the second load around
back where larger loads are dropped off. Of course there is no employee back there
to give directions or signage so I had to rely on other customers to tell me where to
toss the stuff. These guys run a pretty big operation for the tiny space they fit it into
but since they are closest that's where I go. Though if I was using a vehicle I'd
probably look for some place with a drive through scale rather than this goofy
situation where people have to back into an enclosed space to be weighed, drive
around back to unload, then come back to weigh out. At least at that point the
shopping cart becomes an advantage over a truck because it's more manuverable.
The space is literaly so tight you wouldn't be able to use a trailer on a vehicle!

Sometimes they have me weigh out after unloading, sometimes they just
assume a weight for the cart. Hard to know what I'm supposed to do when it
changes every time and it's to damn noisy to hear anyone.

Still have a little bit of steel and I'm getting close to a full bag of Aluminum cans
to go. The shell from the dishwasher is bigger than the cart so I'll have to put it
over top and find a way to tie it down.

[Rosco]

Helped on a Habitat for Humanity Sale an got 6 AL kettles to start this year. GS sales are more frequent now that it warmed up I hope for another $60+ score for light duty scraping