What did you scrap?

[cwgii]

lol I bought 32.00 of xmas lights , just to cut them up. only thing is , mama decided she needed them for the yard. out of 14 bags , only one was broke. about 70 stands.

[hobo finds]

400 lbs sheet iron / steel $.055 lb. $110.00 net ton Said that price could drop another $10 a ton this month

[cwgii]

change format... instead of daily reports

for the week
beer== 1353
cb== 692
lq== 413
paper== 163

[cwgii]

this week was clean up the stockpiles

br==2735
cb==478
lq==340
paper== 153

lol this morning in the freezing Tucson morning. I was loading up metal and found 4 more barrels of glass.

[hobo finds]

8 lbs #1 plastic non CRV @ $.30 lb
5 lbs #2 plastic non CRV @ $.10 lb
42 lbs paper @ $.02 lb
43 lbs glass CRV @ $.04 lb
26 lbs glass jars / bottles non CRV @ $.03 lb
Sheet iron / steel 180 lbs @ $.055 lb

Total $16.14

[hobo finds]

150 lbs sheet iron / steel $.055

[hobo finds]

Prices are dropping even more...

#2 ins wire down to $.85
electric motors down to $.20

if prices keep falling not sure what to do, can only stock pile so much waiting for prices to go back up. I am holding on to almost 200 lbs #2 ins wire hoping for the price to go back to a buck, so far cost me $30.00 Sure gas is cheaper and lots less people scrapping so you can get more stuff...

[cwgii]

thrift store sold me 4 file cabinets for 12.00/// a couple hours of pulling the handles ]aluminum} . a pipe wrench to remove some of the spot welded pieces to get upgraded to 'prepared' vs the sheet price for the cabinets. and the bonus , one drawer had a 100 hanging file folders, another had 4 strands of xmas lights. which worked.

ouch to the wire. as I bought a tote full of nonwoking lights for 3.00

I complained about how the young men that man the scales were screwing over folks. .... made me had that they paid .10 ---copper content for motors.

[hobo finds]

yikes on the motor price!

[cwgii]

OUT OF ORDER BUT... 182 lb of plastic today. that is 8 weeks worth.

[cwgii]

yikes on the motor price!

this is what I am saying about the young bucks being either lacking in knowledge or just plain trying to f### over folks.

[cwgii]

oops. forgot to post last week.

beer== 1502
cb==774
lq==279
pap==90

this week
beer==1208
cb== 376
lq==345
pap== 89

#1 pete==182 lb

[cwgii]

nov totals

b==7102
c= 3358
l= 1311
p= 580

[hobo finds]

140 lbs Torch prepared steel @ $.07 lb
94 lbs prepared steel @ $.08 lb
16 lbs copper content @ $.12 lb
7 lbs dirty brass @ $.64 lb

$23.72 total

[cwgii]

picked up a big tote of xmas lights for 25.00 at goodwill. again mommma takes away the profit by taking some of the strands. .. lolol

at another I bought a low file cabinet. ??lateral file?? found out it was used as a kids toy chest as there were a bunch of crayons , pencils and misc power cords under the bottom drawer... and two dimes.

[hobo finds]

440 lbs sheet iron steel @ $.055 lb $24.20

[Recyclersteve]

Question for hobo finds and cwgii-- Do you guys (both in Tucson) drive around a lot to find the items you are scrapping? Do you mainly get items left out in front of houses for pickup or go to business dumpsters or do something else? It is amazing how much stuff you guys scrap. Any tips you could provide for the rest of us on finding scraps would be most appreciated.

[hobo finds]

Cut thru alleys when I am going somewhere. And then we have large item clean up twice a year in different areas of the city.

[hobo finds]

Question for hobo finds and cwgii-- Do you guys (both in Tucson) drive around a lot to find the items you are scrapping? Do you mainly get items left out in front of houses for pickup or go to business dumpsters or do something else? It is amazing how much stuff you guys scrap. Any tips you could provide for the rest of us on finding scraps would be most appreciated.

Also trying to get rid of most of the piles of stuff I have. The prices are falling but Christmas is coming! LOL

[cwgii]

once in awhile the craiglist curb alerts, finds in the travels. buy at thrifts.

[Recyclersteve]

What do you mean by craigslist curb alerts? Does that mean someone on craigslist says they have a bunch of junk in front of their home? If so, that seems dangerous (not for you, but for the person who is putting their home address out on the web for all to see).

[cwgii]

standard practice here. one way to get rid of 90% of stuff. lol lame when someone opens up a tv, takes the copper and maybe the boards and leaves the rest there for the homeowner.

[cwgii]

164 LB OF AL CANS ..special pay rate of 1.00

[cwgii]

weekly report

beer== 1465
cb== 962
liq==330
paper==140

[hobo finds]

Today in So. AZ

78 lbs sheet iron @ $.055 lb
63 lbs painted alum @ $.70 lb

Total $48.39