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Post by toldya on Jul 14, 2024 10:45:13 GMT -5
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Jul 14, 2024 11:35:38 GMT -5
My back hurts just thinking about lifting one of those 5 gal buckets.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jul 14, 2024 12:01:18 GMT -5
I had an old friend that owned a one man land clearing/site prep business. He lived in one place for about 25 or 30 yrs and basically worked out of his backyard. He decided to sell his place and needed to clean out all the scrap and wore out equipment that he had accumulated over the years. He sold all that junk for something like north of 75 grand if my memory is correct. He never threw away anything and it paid off big time.
Another thing that he taught me was that he never made any real money with that equipment but it did open up opportunities to buy and flip land, that was where the real money was. He was a wise old man, I wish that I had listened to him.
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Post by cyclist on Jul 14, 2024 14:57:12 GMT -5
Good on you, a valuable resource that is going to be used again. I hate to see usable items as trash because folks don't want to spend the time to do the right thing. Many kudos!
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Post by toldya on Jul 14, 2024 18:04:50 GMT -5
Good on you, a valuable resource that is going to be used again. I hate to see usable items as trash because folks don't want to spend the time to do the right thing. Many kudos! I don't know where to draw the line on environmental issues but I'm cautionary , I guess. Back in he 60's cars had to be burnt before they were taken to the scrap yard. Flipped upside down and torched to burn off anything that wasn't metal . We've come a long ways since then . I had a pile of about 60 AC compressors in the shop that I recently scrapped. I collected what oil I could from them before stacking them and when I broke them down the remainder was captured and disposed of. I won't dump anything on the ground. I'm sure tonnage of metal recycled uses a lot less energy than mining it. |
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Post by toldya on Jul 14, 2024 18:44:18 GMT -5
I had an old friend that owned a one man land clearing/site prep business. He lived in one place for about 25 or 30 yrs and basically worked out of his backyard. He decided to sell his place and needed to clean out all the scrap and wore out equipment that he had accumulated over the years. He sold all that junk for something like north of 75 grand if my memory is correct. He never threw away anything and it paid off big time. Another thing that he taught me was that he never made any real money with that equipment but it did open up opportunities to buy and flip land, that was where the real money was. He was a wise old man, I wish that I had listened to him. It adds up . I was kinda a hoarder too, but on a smaller scale. Something to fall back on if things got too tight . I could just sell off this pile but I have the time to clean it and don't mind doing it. If a person was going to make a living at it they would have to have a bigger operation . |
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Post by bswiv on Jul 14, 2024 18:48:16 GMT -5
Just came in from the garage where I finished up separating some brass steel fasteners so that the scrap yard will pay clean rather than dirty price.
When it's all said and done the scrap is probably a loss based on time and effort.......but....as CYCALIST noted......the tossing of it into the dump when some further use of it can be made just seems wrong. And of course I get some exercise messing with it.....and quiet time with a audio book while out in the garage alone.
In a way it's like the things Louann insists on picking up and dropping off at the battered women's shelter or the other thrift store so that they do not end up in the dump when a few dollars for a good cause and another use of the item can be made.
Maybe.....when it's all said and done we're wasting our time......but.....it fits in with the idea of donating to charity that we were taught as kids. That our mothers would approve is for sure......
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Post by toldya on Jul 14, 2024 20:46:49 GMT -5
Just came in from the garage where I finished up separating some brass steel fasteners so that the scrap yard will pay clean rather than dirty price. When it's all said and done the scrap is probably a loss based on time and effort.......but....as CYCALIST noted......the tossing of it into the dump when some further use of it can be made just seems wrong. And of course I get some exercise messing with it.....and quiet time with a audio book while out in the garage alone. In a way it's like the things Louann insists on picking up and dropping off at the battered women's shelter or the other thrift store so that they do not end up in the dump when a few dollars for a good cause and another use of the item can be made. Maybe.....when it's all said and done we're wasting our time......but.....it fits in with the idea of donating to charity that we were taught as kids. That our mothers would approve is for sure...... Back in the 60's my dad did some scrapping and I would help him. We were a poor family . Around Christmas time scrap would go from 10 dollars a ton to 20 a ton. We would be able to get 3 car bodies on a truck and would have a 5 ton load. 100 dollars was a nice chunk of money back then. I collected the other metals, but that was not the main focus at the time. Just the opposite now in many ways . My hobbies always revolved around making money - scrapping, ebaying and metal detecting. |
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Post by stc1993 on Jul 15, 2024 5:54:33 GMT -5
I don't throw aluminum cans away. My brother doesn't either I was letting him take them to the recycling place when he took his. He said he wasn't doing it anymore. So I took some in .67/lb. Last time I sold any was 20/lb about 7 years ago.
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Post by bswiv on Jul 15, 2024 6:59:58 GMT -5
I don't throw aluminum cans away. My brother doesn't either I was letting him take them to the recycling place when he took his. He said he wasn't doing it anymore. So I took some in .67/lb. Last time I sold any was 20/lb about 7 years ago. Prices for steel and aluminum cans are way down.....at least here in Palatka.......which makes no sense as the cost of the finished products made from them is up.....?? Somehow I'm feeling the hand of government policy.... |
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Post by garycoleco on Jul 15, 2024 21:03:30 GMT -5
It's a bit late. I'll post up a crazy story about scrapping 2100lbs of alloy 49
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Post by toldya on Jul 15, 2024 21:33:45 GMT -5
Cleaned this stainless steel commercial deep fryer this morning. Heavy sucker.   |
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Post by garycoleco on Jul 17, 2024 20:09:19 GMT -5
I was at an auction once and saw a random pallet of shiny balls. They looked like the 12 inch flow through balls in ball valves. They surface was slick as can be. I thought they were stainless and pretty cool, so I bid based on scrap prices. One old man offered $5 I countered with $20. He let me buy them.
The next week I put them in my box truck and headed to the Newell scrap yard. We already weighed then at 2100 lbs. I get to the scrap yard and they said oh you have stainless take them over there to drop the pallet. I get to the stainless Bins and one of the workers sticks a magnet to it and it sticks. He said I can only pay you steel prices. I said clearly these are stainless and he said if they're even slightly magnetic I can't pays you. He then says you can take these to our facility in College Park (GA) they have a spectrometer. They'll pay you if they they test stainless. Cool I'm headed that way.
I get there and the manager comes out with the spectrometer and burns a spot. He looks at the display and says I'll be right back. 5 minutes later he comes out and says it's Alloy 49 and I can give you $5.19 per pound. He then says I might can get you 15 cents more if you let me shop it for a week. I said nah ill take the check now. Almost $11k
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Post by bswiv on Jul 17, 2024 20:25:26 GMT -5
I was at an auction once and saw a random pallet of shiny balls. They looked like the 12 inch flow through balls in ball valves. They surface was slick as can be. I thought they were stainless and pretty cool, so I bid based on scrap prices. One old man offered $5 I countered with $20. He let me buy them. The next week I put them in my box truck and headed to the Newell scrap yard. We already weighed then at 2100 lbs. I get to the scrap yard and they said oh you have stainless take them over there to drop the pallet. I get to the stainless Bins and one of the workers sticks a magnet to it and it sticks. He said I can only pay you steel prices. I said clearly these are stainless and he said if they're even slightly magnetic I can't pays you. He then says you can take these to our facility in College Park (GA) they have a spectrometer. They'll pay you if they they test stainless. Cool I'm headed that way. I get there and the manager comes out with the spectrometer and burns a spot. He looks at the display and says I'll be right back. 5 minutes later he comes out and says it's Alloy 49 and I can give you $5.19 per pound. He then says I might can get you 15 cents more if you let me useshop it for a week. I said nah ill take the check now. Almost $11k Come on.....you can't not explain Alloy 59!!!! |
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Post by stc1993 on Jul 17, 2024 21:26:30 GMT -5
I was at an auction once and saw a random pallet of shiny balls. They looked like the 12 inch flow through balls in ball valves. They surface was slick as can be. I thought they were stainless and pretty cool, so I bid based on scrap prices. One old man offered $5 I countered with $20. He let me buy them. The next week I put them in my box truck and headed to the Newell scrap yard. We already weighed then at 2100 lbs. I get to the scrap yard and they said oh you have stainless take them over there to drop the pallet. I get to the stainless Bins and one of the workers sticks a magnet to it and it sticks. He said I can only pay you steel prices. I said clearly these are stainless and he said if they're even slightly magnetic I can't pays you. He then says you can take these to our facility in College Park (GA) they have a spectrometer. They'll pay you if they they test stainless. Cool I'm headed that way. I get there and the manager comes out with the spectrometer and burns a spot. He looks at the display and says I'll be right back. 5 minutes later he comes out and says it's Alloy 49 and I can give you $5.19 per pound. He then says I might can get you 15 cents more if you let me useshop it for a week. I said nah ill take the check now. Almost $11k Come on.....you can't not explain Alloy 59!!!! Carpenter Technology www.carpentertechnology.com › ... High Permeability 49 - Specialty Alloys High Permeability "49" is a 48% nickel-iron alloy that possesses the highest saturation flux density of any nickel-iron. Hope this helps. It's almost 1/2 nickle. |
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