What is your bottleneck?

[cmw]

Been thinking about the variation in my sorting efforts, and the different factors that come into play from week to week.

Some that come to mind are:
Speed of sorting -manual or machine
Availability of unsorted coins
Dumping limitations
Limits on capital to tuck away as Cu
Limits on liquid funds to have in play
Space for storage
Tolerance of spouse/SO WRT to any factor...

From time to time each of these has restricted my efforts. Right now for me the limiting factor is time -lack of time in my schedule to pickup, sort, and dump is holding me back from what I could/would do otherwise.

Anyone else want to elaborate on what might be holding them back?

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[HoardCopperByTheTon]

I have experienced all of those limitations except the storage space issue. Surprising how small the footprint of a ton really is.
Time is my main limitation. The day job comes first and that has been consuming a significant amount of my time lately. The beauty of this hobby is the that you can ramp up or ramp down to match whatever time you have available.

[pennyguy]

Not being able to get bags from banks,
Takes forever to cut open rolls,
Then dumping of the zinc

[doug]

second me for time also.

[RichardPenny43]

Right now my limit is how much money I can put into Cu every week.
I have no issues with time, pick-ups, dumps.
I think I might cancel cable tv, that should free up alot of cash and time.

[m83striker]

1. not being able to dump zinc at the bank unless its rolled
2. time/wife constraints

[chris6084]

I have experienced all of those limitations except the storage space issue. Surprising how small the footprint of a ton really is.
Time is my main limitation. The day job comes first and that has been consuming a significant amount of my time lately. The beauty of this hobby is the that you can ramp up or ramp down to match whatever time you have available.

Storage space can take up a small footprint. But two warnings about storing in a small footprint.

1. You can crack your foundation with your hoard.
2. Tyvek bags seem indestructible. When you stack hundreds of pounds of bags of pennies on top of each other, the bags on the bottom will disintegrate.

[knibloe]

I have experienced all of those limitations except the storage space issue. Surprising how small the footprint of a ton really is.
Time is my main limitation. The day job comes first and that has been consuming a significant amount of my time lately. The beauty of this hobby is the that you can ramp up or ramp down to match whatever time you have available.

Between my day job, my family, working w/ church, Boy Scouts, part time farming, time is my biggest limitation also.

Next comes dumping.

[Rosco]

In my case enthusiasm dropped with lower percentage and source has been Difficult, Time not problem for OLD retired fellow

[SilverDragon72]

Um....a basic lack of any extra money to put into my hobby as of late. Other bills are a priority, for now.

End of the month could bring some reprieve

[John_doe]

1. DUMP BANKS
2. DUMP BANKS
3. DUMP BANKS

[NHsorter]

Time.

[spacemanX]

1. getting enough stock to sort without using a lot of gas.
2. dump banks, closest without haveing to sort is 12 miles away.

[inflationhawk]

Hand sorting the coppers for wheats and Canadians and then rolling and boxing. I probably don't need to do either, but I think it will make it easier to sell later.

[duane1966]

As a husband and father I struggle with finding the time to sort like I would like and also be the husband and father that I need to be.
I have no issue with getting pennies or dumping. I run a delivery route and go by so many banks it's crazy. Since its a company van it doesn't cost me any gas to pick up or dump.

[penny pretty]

seems as I grew more into this hobby, My work hours have increased. They laid a shift off at my plant, and put those of us left on 12 hour days, 5 or 6 days a week.(saves them the health insurance costs for headcount) By no means Im complaining, thankful Im still working, but it puts a crimp in the time I get to sort, but mostly having time to pickup.

[thripp]

I still haven't found a source for loose cents, so unwrapping the coins is my bottleneck.

[BooBoo1000]

Has anyone noticed the prices for one roll of unsorted pennies on the Bay???

[willy13]

time, since i hand sort

[Engineer]

My bottleneck is customers for the finished product. I have no desire to sell on ebay, and not too many CTUs seem to move here lately.

I wouldn't mind sorting a quarter ton or more for a committed buyer, but prices simply aren't high enough to justify doing it as a speculative venture.

[Silver4face]

BUMP!!!! There are two other bottlenecks that nobody mentioned:

#1 Banks that only have BRAND NEW rolls of coin

#2 Banks that will not sell you coin unless you have an account. This is especially true for credit unions as they are very strict with this. It's been YEARS since I have attempted to "mine" a credit union.

[cwgii]

BUMP!!!! There are two other bottlenecks that nobody mentioned:

#1 Banks that only have BRAND NEW rolls of coin

#2 Banks that will not sell you coin unless you have an account. This is especially true for credit unions as they are very strict with this. It's been YEARS since I have attempted to "mine" a credit union.

Lol. That is why I had 17 accounts arone time. Now down to 4.

But, one cu will order boxes once a month. Other one sells me bags from the counter. That is More than enough

[cwgii]

As to solid date new....I got $10 cwr that was exactly that. I believe there were 10 cu.

[Lemon Thrower]

impossible to dump here unless rolled.

[TXSTARFIRE]

Interesting. Around here if you bring in rolled coin they will crack the roll open and run it through the machine or you need run your coin through the lobby counter.