What did you scrap?

[hobo finds]

100 lbs sheet iron
320 lbs prepared steel

$32.55 total

[hobo finds]

Today in the rain...
180 lbs dirty alum @ $.27 lb
21 lbs dirty brass @ $.62 lb
19 lbs die cast zinc @ $.45 lb
64 lbs sheet iron @ $.055 lb

$73.69 total

[hobo finds]

Today rain again!
12 lbs MLC alum @ $.48 lb
44 lbs auto transmissions $.18 lb
11 lbs compressor @ $.15 lb
6 lbs. rechargeable batteries NiCad and NiMh $.23 lb
100 lbs sheet iron @ $.055 lb

$22.21 and a trip closer to getting the $.10 bonus pricing

[hobo finds]

46 lbs Extruded alum @ $.70 lb
40 lbs Prepared torch steel @ $.0675
34 lbs #1 plastic bottles @ $.40 lb

$48.50 total

[hobo finds]

17 lbs brown circuit boards @ $.10 lb
7 lbs green circuit boards @ $.15 lb
12 lbs cast alum @ $.55 lb
47 lbs auto batteries @ $.27 lb
14 lbs stainless steel @ $.45 lb
10 lbs dirty stainless steel @ $.12 lb.
4 lbs #2 copper @ $2.30 lb
10 lbs lead @ $.40 lb
399 lbs electric motors @ $.20 lb.
11 lbs copper content @ $.10 lb.
52 lbs sheet iron @ $.055 lb
59 lbs newspaper @ $.02 lb
3 lbs #1 plastic non CRV @ $.30
5 lbs #2 plastic natural color @ $.10 lb

Total $129.35

[cwgii]

17 lbs brown circuit boards @ $.10 lb
7 lbs green circuit boards @ $.15 lb
12 lbs cast alum @ $.55 lb
47 lbs auto batteries @ $.27 lb
14 lbs stainless steel @ $.45 lb
10 lbs dirty stainless steel @ $.12 lb.
4 lbs #2 copper @ $2.30 lb
10 lbs lead @ $.40 lb
399 lbs electric motors @ $.20 lb.
11 lbs copper content @ $.10 lb.
52 lbs sheet iron @ $.055 lb
59 lbs newspaper @ $.02 lb
3 lbs #1 plastic non CRV @ $.30
5 lbs #2 plastic natural color @ $.10 lb


what , no room for the 200 lb of wire???

have you tried to remove the copper wire from the windings on the motors???
Total $129.35

[hobo finds]

Went to several yards today in this one trip. Wire and brass maybe cans on Monday. No on the motors had everything from computer fan motors, small transformers up to pool motors

[Recyclersteve]

Steel 105 lb. @ $125.00/ton $6.60 (Mostly electrical panels and piping from our house)
Copper Ins. 90% 12 lb. @ 1.70 lb. $20.40 (Electrical panel wires from our house)
Copper Ins. #1, 80% 10 lb. @ 1.40/lb. $14.00 (Electrical panel wires from our house)
Copper Ins. #2, 40% 2 lb. @ 0.60/lb. $1.20 (Extension cord)
Aluminum, dirty cast 15 lb. @ 0.10/lb. $1.50
Aluminum cans 1 lb. @ 0.60/lb. $0.60
TOTAL $44.30

[cwgii]

short week last week. only 3 trips as she was closed-dr- rain and a day of taking in just steel.

beer== 1017
cardboard== 616
liq== 253
paper == 52

[hobo finds]

Today
177 lbs #2 ins wire @ $.96 lb
5 lbs auto rad @ $1.62 lb
7 lbs Alum Rdiator @ $.54 lb
30 lbs Brass @ $1.72 lb

All prices have the $.10 lb. BONUS DAY!

Total $233.40

[hobo finds]

well that was a fun few days of scrapping! Had to move out all my junk as my daughter was having a marching band party at our house last night! Prices are down but still some extra Christmas cash $$ and the $.10 bonus helped with the insulated wire price. Only metal left is some aluminum cans... now to start the piles of stuff again!

[hobo finds]

14 lbs aluminum cans @ $.95 lb
11 lbs #2 plastic color @ $.04 lb

$13.74 total

[hobo finds]

66 lbs aluminum cans @ $1.10 lb
120 lbs sheet iron @ $.055 lb

$79.20 total

[cwgii]

66 lbs aluminum cans @ $1.10 lb
120 lbs sheet iron @ $.055 lb

$79.20 total

1.10 huhm must have gone down to ''the clean and green'' .

I have not been there. how is it???


wonder if I can get norma to match it.

with holiday and her closing last tues for running out of money made for a hecktic week for me. I hade to break the glass . had all 10 barrels full. truck was sagging.



beer== 2654
cardboard== 1017
liq== 633
paper ==70

months totals were down
beer 6349'
cb 2971
lq 1561
pap 280

[hobo finds]

Went there with some plastic when Norma's was closed when she should have been open. Got $.40 for #1 plastic and they told me about the cans $1.10 but if crushed they can't be flattened sideways, so crush from top down or whole to get the $1.10 a pound. I am sure they want the UPC code on the side of the can crushed. I took my sideways / flattened cans to Can it for $.95 lb with some #2 colored plastic for $.04 lb

[hobo finds]

140 lbs sheet iron steel $.0575 lb. $8.05 total Needed an empty truck and did not want to unload and then load again

[cwgii]

week and a day .

beer 3248
cardboard 923
liq 680
paper 401

holding on to my wire... it dropped yet again . down to .79

[cwgii]

thrift store purchases.. bed head boards, iron shelving unit. which mama promptly wanted. grrrr

[hobo finds]

When I was at the yard I noticed they had a propane tank, I asked and they take them as is, no need to take off valve or have a hole in them like other yards want. I would always pick up the tanks if full and use them up, now I can get rid of the old ones that the propane place will not fill up as they are too old and don't have the new safety overfill device in them.

[Thogey]

When I was at the yard I noticed they had a propane tank, I asked and they take them as is, no need to take off valve or have a hole in them like other yards want. I would always pick up the tanks if full and use them up, now I can get rid of the old ones that the propane place will not fill up as they are too old and don't have the new safety overfill device in them.

Flame Propane in Prescott will recertify them for a few bucks. They are worth much more that way. Is there a Flame in Tuscon?

You can exchange your tanks without the OPD thing at one of those exchange racks. Again it's worth more that way.

NO yards around here will except or buy any kind of fuel tank no matter how pulverized it is

[hobo finds]

When I was at the yard I noticed they had a propane tank, I asked and they take them as is, no need to take off valve or have a hole in them like other yards want. I would always pick up the tanks if full and use them up, now I can get rid of the old ones that the propane place will not fill up as they are too old and don't have the new safety overfill device in them.

Flame Propane in Prescott will recertify them for a few bucks. They are worth much more that way. Is there a Flame in Tuscon?

You can exchange your tanks without the OPD thing at one of those exchange racks. Again it's worth more that way.

NO yards around here will except or buy any kind of fuel tank no matter how pulverized it is

Thanks, did not know that the exchange places would take the old, no OPD ones. I have and do exchange the ones that are out of date and have the OPD.

[hobo finds]

also just found out that stamped on the propane tank is the tank weight (empty) marked TW then a number. SO I will exchange the old ones and sell the empty ones at a yard sale, way better than $1.00 at the scrap yard!

[messymessy]

Thanks, did not know that the exchange places would take the old, no OPD ones. I have and do exchange the ones that are out of date and have the OPD.

Be careful where you exchange them. Some places will accept an older tank with no OPD as an exchange, but charge you LOTS more for the new tank with the OPD.

[AdamsSamoa]

New Years resolution... I am going to buy Alcoa (AA) stock with any scrap yard money I get this year... Already made my first purchase $20 dollars worth from soda / beer cans, a used Wok, and some shred steel that I gathered from the neighbors trash.

[hobo finds]

New Years resolution... I am going to buy Alcoa (AA) stock with any scrap yard money I get this year... Already made my first purchase $20 dollars worth from soda / beer cans, a used Wok, and some shred steel that I gathered from the neighbors trash.

Could be a good idea! http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/stockdet ... =INSFIST10

http://investorplace.com/2015/01/alcoa- ... LapPOo5CM8