What did you scrap?

[OneBiteAtATime]

last weeks load in Ontario Canada

314 lbs batteries @0.20 = $62.20
21lbs #2 insulated wire @$1.10 =$23.10
20lbs #2 copper @$2.70 =$54
2 lbs popcans @$0.60 =$1.20
17lbs copper/al rad @$1.35 =$22.95
11lbs Die cast @$0.40 =$4.40
5lbs #1 copper @$2.90 =$14.50
19lbs extr al @$0.75 =$14.25
23lbs yellow brass@$1.80 =$41.40
20lbs stainless@$0.60 =$12
37lbs barebright cu @$3.10 =$114.70
123lbs #2 insulated @$0.80 =$98.40
89 lbs old sheet al @$0.55 =$48.95
59lbs christmas lights @$0.40 =$23.60

total $536.25

not bad for picking it all out of the garbage while driving the garbage truck. This is about a months worth and I doubt i get half the goodies. Nice little christmas bonus

Yes! Been wondering if some or most garbage truck drivers did this. Seems like the perfect occupation for a scrapper! Good mix of scrap! Man, $500/month; that's like an extra $6000 a year!

[davycoppitt]

I get most of my scrap from my garbage rout as well. Your numbers are about the same as mine. I'm the only driver who saves it from the company I work for.

[schilcott]

Same here....our other driver says he wouldn't want it messing up his truck. Him loss

[davycoppitt]

1992 ford escort (stripped)
Weighed in at 2200 @155/ton
$170.5

I payed 60 for it.

[adagirl]

last weeks load in Ontario Canada

314 lbs batteries @0.20 = $62.20
21lbs #2 insulated wire @$1.10 =$23.10
20lbs #2 copper @$2.70 =$54
2 lbs popcans @$0.60 =$1.20
17lbs copper/al rad @$1.35 =$22.95
11lbs Die cast @$0.40 =$4.40
5lbs #1 copper @$2.90 =$14.50
19lbs extr al @$0.75 =$14.25
23lbs yellow brass@$1.80 =$41.40
20lbs stainless@$0.60 =$12
37lbs barebright cu @$3.10 =$114.70
123lbs #2 insulated @$0.80 =$98.40
89 lbs old sheet al @$0.55 =$48.95
59lbs christmas lights @$0.40 =$23.60

total $536.25

not bad for picking it all out of the garbage while driving the garbage truck. This is about a months worth and I doubt i get half the goodies. Nice little christmas bonus

awesome! very cool that you do this! If I drove a garbage truck I would do it too! very smart!

[adagirl]

Same here....our other driver says he wouldn't want it messing up his truck. Him loss

I thought in Canada it was law that you have to recycle? That is what a former Canadian colleague told me. I guess some still don't seperate recyclables?

[Thogey]

Same here....our other driver says he wouldn't want it messing up his truck. Him loss

Bank teller or garbage truck driver, I would get fired doing either.

No work would get done.

[Thogey]

Where do you guys store your scrap, during the day?

That's got to be tough to run your schedule and pick metal.

Ya'll must hawk for the good stuff on the top and drive on..

[OneBiteAtATime]

This morning in East Missouri -

15# alum cans @ .55
3# bright copper @ 2.60
3# #2 insul wire @.75
28# MERRY CHRISTMAS! tree lights @.20
6# yellow brass @ 1.75
136# shred

$49.35

These metal prices STINK!!!!

[scrapman1077]

onebite, lot sizes are small, when I worked for a scrap ward, small lots like yours got much lower prices.

[OneBiteAtATime]

AHA!

[davycoppitt]

I store all my scrap in the cab. I usually empty the cab about 3-4 times a day. Large things I sometimes just set next to the dumpster and come back to get it. So far I've had no complaints, but I work in a small town and everybody knows whats going on. At most companies they would not allow this. I work for very small company and am good friends with the owers. With doing all this extra stuff I still get my rout done faster than everybody else.

[cwgii]

i sent a new personal best ...... 1460 # of glass in one load. now that we can break them. the limiting factor of 'space' has been removed.

[adagirl]

As I learn about scrapping (I have banked 35.50 so far in aluminum and a little bit of copper) I was wondering if there are any full-time scrappers on here. Or does everyone pretty much do this as a side line project for extra income?

[hobo finds]

i sent a new personal best ...... 1460 # of glass in one load. now that we can break them. the limiting factor of 'space' has been removed.

That's a lot of glass! Are they still paying .05 a pound? How do you store your broken glass? Box it up?

[Heartkill]

340lb. mixed steel/tin @ $240 per ton - $40.80

[hobo finds]

300 lbs sheet iron steel .095 a pound in So. AZ

TTL $28.50

[cwgii]

i sent a new personal best ...... 1460 # of glass in one load. now that we can break them. the limiting factor of 'space' has been removed.

That's a lot of glass! Are they still paying .05 a pound? How do you store your broken glass? Box it up?

i turn in each day. they are providing large 'bags' . which they are getting 2500+ pounds into. whereas before breaking, they were getting 700.

even a 'trash can ' of all broken is too heavy to lift. so , storing would be a problem. maybe if you had access to a bunch of 5 gallon pails. or banana boxes.

as they will be moving in a couple weeks. there may be a short timeframe where storing will have to be the option.

btw, they now would like it if it was sorted to color. brown, green, clear. i do use trash barrels for the clear and green, as there is only that much per day . ie 95% brown, 4% clear, 1% green.

[hobo finds]

Thankf for the info on seperating the glass.

[hobo finds]

Today in So. AZ
Al furnace 16 lbs @ .25 lb (+.05 from Nov)
Elect motors 90 lbs @ .30 lb (price same from Nov)
Paint Alum 33 lbs @ .55 lb (price same from Nov)
Compressor 24 lbs @ .12 lb (price down .01 from Oct)
Brass 3 lbs @ 1.75 lb (price up .15 fron Nov)
#2 Copper 4 lbs @ 2.60 lb (price up .10 from Oct)
Die cast 5 lbs @ .15 lb (price up .05 from Oct)
Auto batt 18 lbs @ .15 lb (price down .05 from July)

TTL $62.13

[hobo finds]

Today in So. AZ

24 lbs Alum Cans .74 lb (price drop .07 from Sept)

Thought this would be my last load for the year as it has been slow, but our dryer went out (17 years old!) So going to get a new washer and dryer. At least I'll get back .095 a pound on the old ones

[adagirl]

Today in So. AZ

24 lbs Alum Cans .74 lb (price drop .07 from Sept)

Thought this would be my last load for the year as it has been slow, but our dryer went out (17 years old!) So going to get a new washer and dryer. At least I'll get back .095 a pound on the old ones

Wow, you are getting .74 lbs for alum! Only .55 lbs here in GA

[hobo finds]

Hd to have a coupon or it would be .60-,68 lb

[saltydecks]

Grandfather had me clean out his back yard... lifted a tire, coiled up 2AWG copper. Got to find my utility knife, got like 50 lbs or so

[CrazyTom]

Took my last load in for this year.

Total take for the year, $1267.07!

Most of it was work metal and a little was my bike road metal.