You probably should have made contact earlier in the week and checked to see if you get there before hours.That way you don’t have to deal with all the other customers coming in.We found that is the best way to deal with large customers like you guys.There is some yards out there that will rip you off when given a chance.
I hear you. We have had great rapport and special pricing with all the various scrap yards in the past and special bulk pricing, but with this one. Sarasota yard called Sunshine they love us and bend over backwards to make thing easier and find way to pay you more. Its an extra 100 miles and the time as well.
When I was running scrap was the first three in line were given $.10 more per pound. So I left at midnight, drove 3 hours, parked first in line, went into the sleeper took a nap. They woke me up at 7 am, and i unloaded and was out of there by 0830 , and $2500 richer. We did that 6 days per week.
I don't like to deal with so many different kinds of scrap at the yard at the same time. I take one or two different kinds to the yard at a time. I mix the coax in with the steel scrap and my yard is ok with that.
I work at a scrap yard here in Pennsylvania and where i work at we would have sent you across the bigger truck scale with all your aluminum copper radiators and the sheet aluminum. Other then that id say you guys did a hell of a good job at sorting. And also never sell you convertors to a scrap yard our yard dont take convertors without proper paperwork but we also pay some of the highest prices for copper and brass and aluminum. Great job
Im glad u knew how to grade all that load. If u didn’t, they will give u the lowest grade and they will upgrade it when u guys leave. Beyond well worth for that trip to be begin with that trip👍. Good to know ur scraps 💯
It really does help building a rapport with scrap yard managers. I did with my local yard, hauled in 30 metric ton of prepared steel and he gave me $30.00 extra a ton over their list price. Then when you do stuff like prep a whole pallet of batteries so they only have to load it it resulted in me going from $0.35lb to $0.43/lb because they no longer had to pay their guys to gather, stack and wrap the pallet of batteries to ship. Now my numbers saved in the managers phone so I just call him when I'm coming in lol
We have had great rapport and special pricing with all the various scrap yards in the past and special bulk pricing, but with this one. Sarasota yard called Sunshine they love us and bend over backwards to make thing easier and find way to pay you more. Its an extra 100 miles and the time as well.
I love your Channel my grandparents brought me up collecting aluminum and copper I was in charge of smashing the cans fun memories back when aluminum cans payed 35 cents a pound.
I am intense but I make it so we all make good money, I don't get bullied. And I don't stupid stuff just because they don't understand what their boss told them.
Wow, all those copper ali rads 😄🧡 This is a perfect example of why tradespeople should collect their scrap, that being said, I'm glad they don't all do it or there would be nothing left for us little guys😂
Haha, I like how you were keeping it real with the employees there 😂 One time when I had a construction job, I kept whatever copper I could find for a whole summer and cleaned it up, and when I went into the scrap yard and put it on the scale, the dude said something about giving me a lesser price under his breath, and I was like, "Wait, what? Isn't the price of copper $X.XX?" and he goes, "Only for clean copper." And I said, "Wait, this IS clean, though," and he points to literally about 8 inches of foam on ONE single 5 foot pipe that I found the day before and he goes, "That ain't." Thinking he was joking, I kind of chuckled, and he goes, "I'm serious, I'm not cleaning that up," so I was like, "Ok, wait, don't weigh it yet," and I ripped it off in 10 seconds and got full price. It's like....I get where you're coming from, but come on, man!" 😂
oh, I sure do miss earl weber. one of the best men ive ever had the pleasure to know and work with. I spent years working with him, a most kind generous and honest man. I see they have changed the name of the business since his passing.
earl weber sr started garden street scrap and metal from nothing. first beginning in Ohio and then creating scrap business in fort Myers. @@removeitprosdemolition
You need to take in smaller loads. Thats crazy no wonder you have trouble everytime you go. Do better seperating and organizing so you arent making everyone do so much work.
Time is money we go when we can. The last time was better. these guys are new owner they are doing batter they had the foreman work with us last time and they knew about our video.
Woah ! $11.000 that’s a great weigh in more so when it’s over double yous expected ,amazing stuff to watch you show all the little stunts they pull to get metals a few cents cheaper which makes a lot of cash for them if there’s a load of scrap getting bought at a cheaper rate that makes bad buisness in my books, another great insight into the world of scrap metals,
The only way to find drama is to create it. Not to mention you say you have issues every time and the other yard pays more but you return. Seems like something a dramatic person would do.
So you think it's reasonable for them to have us? Unload the truck in the parking lot. And bring the carts up a 3 foot incline, 50 to 70 carts. And jockey them around all their other customers. Because we had so much more scrap than they did. Are you kidding me.
Whoa...........I was a demolition laborer. The smartest boss ever, had us cut n' weigh everything. When you had a even ton of anything he would broker it for the best price guaranteed. That's how he retired with a whole neighborhood full of houses.
@@removeitprosdemolition I'm happy to be retired and having survived covid, not only in 2019 but survived it in 2020 and 2022 as well. Some people complain about brain fog, I have that from time to time, but I'm having great clarity because I'm not working my balls off anymore. Your best advice is achieved from retired people who can see others doing what they did, ( aka: running the Hamster Wheel). For some people they have to feel that chest pain and the unconscious ride to the Hospital. I'm just at a point now where the Brain is giving back to me.
That why we had 35 separate barrels / bins in the truck. A few items on the tail of the truck go into mixed bins simply because they do not have enough bins.
What a crew bad azz great job and well worth the time I scrap as well copper from plumbing 😂it’s fun jus not when the guys here try to get me for some pounds lol
A few potential process improvement options I see: 1. Perform finer sorting at your own site in advance of showing up at scrapper. Already mentioned by others. 2. Sell all to scrapper who will take care of finer sorting and selling the scrap to a recycler. You won’t get as much for your scrap but you’ll also have less labor cost. Your labor rate might be higher than theirs. Less of a benefit if you only take care of scrapping during downtimes and your labor costs are fixed / salaried. Definite benefit of avoiding hassles with recycler. 3. Create reference board with samples of different type of scrapping materials so team is better informed up-front and can perform unload / final scrapper sorting without you having to be so hands-on.
You also know your scrap alot of people dont. The scrap yard i work at we are probably the fairest yard there is we buy it for what it is and if you put something with something else like your wire we would tell you about it and give you the option to take it back and sort it or we would do a 50/50 split. Unless weve told you about it before then we buy it for the lowest commodity
We Were Unloading We Weren't Sorting, the last few thing jammed it the truck were random and we consolidated them in one bin, it we put each in their own bin they would not had enough bins.
did you even watch the video? it was all basically sorted except the smaller stuff. that was a massive load so I'm sure the scrap company was fine with them taking their time as they were going to be making good money.
You could invest in a wire stripper that attaches to a drill and see if its worth the time then upgrade to a better one that takes less time. I work at a machine shop so i take what i can for scrap, cause they just toss it either way, I mostly grab the aluminum ( bar stock, bad cast parts, or the lazer sheets), stainless ( bar stock, bad parts, or lazer sheets up to 1/2" thick), and brass/bronze (chips, bar stock, bad parts). The thing I dont get is when you scrap the cast aluminum parts you dont get as much but isnt it the same as a cast aluminum vehicle wheel? I tried to ask them and they couldn't give me a good answer, google didn't help answer the question either.
And it would cost him 1000 in pay for someone to sit there and strip it all even with a wire stripper.. if your a person doing it on the side 100% it's worth it to strip it but at this level you waste more then you make by doing it
My buddy & I used to compete. He would save up scrap for 6 months, I would build a car. He cashed in his scrap and I sold the car. I proved to him, its way easier and beneficial to build a car than it is to scrap cars & appliances. He would make about 3 grand and I'd make 30 grand. He died a few years ago and all the local scrappers had a field day at his house. They were all happy to get $2 each in scrap. 😂 Build a car, it pays more.
@paulcoenen7918 Let's put it this way, my oldest just knows we had a car for every day of the week. My youngest saw how much money I make per car and is now reading every automotive book he can get his hands on. You should also. Cars will always be around and will always need work. I have made millions in the automotive world bud, not bragging, but just telling you it's possible. People will always be breaking cars, make bank fixing them correctly the first time and everyone will go to you.
That is one amazing haul of stuff when I was watching all the stuff u where unloading I thought these boys are all way low on the predictions of what u will get paid great video new subscriber
Romex can be a real pain to strip if the line has been overheated at any point in time. A power stripper is really the way to go. Difference in price is probably worth the cost of the machine.
I scrap for a living and I will not take no #1 or big #2 copper in without stripping it worth a lot more money here we’re I live some states won’t take it if it’s been stripped but you all did ok but could of made a lot more money by cleaning stuff better and separating it better but I’ve worked in scrap yards for 30 years I love scraping
Plus you dont let them bully you.. I have seen that a lot at the scrap yards... Most have to just take it, but you have enough metal to get ur way! lol @@removeitprosdemolition
He's got it under control, thats why he has to stay right there and watch, all ya gotta do is get a couple pieces of not cleaned copper in with the cleaned and you start losing money real quick. But taking it to recycle instead of junking it all he's keeping a couple people employed also. Gotta keep eyes on employees too, you go by their houses and find a hundred pounds of cleaned copper dumped out of a barrel in their driveway ( had it happen)that didn't make it to the recycler because you didnt go with.
New subscriber. Your heavy Guage copper and aluminum wire, I would strip it and separate your number 1 and 2 copper. They will pay more for #1 copper. Not sure what you do with the rest of the stuff out of an a/c unite but if you have them take the fan motors as well and put them in a big box and wait until you have a full box of them. I'll have to check where we send ours and of course the compressors from the units as well. After making this comment I seen where you separated the #1 and #2 copper I would personally separate the compressors like Copelands is the ones you want to separate from the rest of the compressors. We take them to a company in tennessee.
We strip the super heavy copper wire, the aluminum we put in our shreds dumpster, its just not worth the effort. We recycle the fans and other stuff each month as we have enough. How much is your average load?
@removeitprosdemolition we separate the #1, #2, aluminum coils, copper coils, small wire, the thicker wire (copper and aluminum) we strip, fan motors, other then the Copeland compressors we put the others ones in a huge box weigh them, and there's a few other things we pull and put in metal 55 gallon drums and then we load into a truck and trailer to be sent off in which the weight is anywhere between 27k to 32k. I myself don't get to see the payout on the load though. I was one of the drivers that picked up the units to be taken back to the warehouse to be broken down. Occasionally if we get enough, we also done stainless steel. Whatever is left from the units gets put in a 40 yard dumpster and picked up for scrap metal by a local recycling company. Oh and any water heaters we get in, we cut the brass and copper, if any copper available.
Looks like yards are all the same. It took me a lot of trips to figure out how to prep my loads. Now when I go I”ll have a dozen bins, all sorted right down. Then some of the yards go ahead and mix them right on the scale, LOL.
Lol as soon you said they will pay us more I would have booted you out. Pack up all your stuff you just unloaded lol. Yes I ran a reputable scrap yard up in Washington State. Used to deal with all kinds of assholes 😂
Yeah and if you watch all the videos you see them cheating (read the comments) and making stuff up.....doesn't change my day at all, I see them cheating people who are counting on the money as there next meal....its wrong. Pisses me off.
I do some copper and radiators but I've collected aluminum cans for years, I take 1,000 pounds of cans in at a time which takes about 5 months to collect and get about $550 for them at .55 cents a pound....
@@removeitprosdemolition Yeah, collecting cans is a lot of work but it's all the stuff I find while doing it that makes it worthwhile including the AC's , fridges and even stuff that I am able to resell online from dumpsters
Thats incredible! How much money that yard is making off that jackpot load of scrap and theyre bitching about minimal crap? Thats insane! Scrap yards around here are worse then used car salesmen. You have to watch them! Sad but true. Good on you for standing your ground brother. Thanks again for another great video!!!
@@removeitprosdemolition yeah, I built a continuous air compressor and needed a big motor. I ended up buying a new one instead. Didn't wanna design around a used motor and have it go out leaving me with finding one with the same mounts and shit.
Some of them are aluminum, some of them are copper. You gotta look at the edges if they're a yellowish red, then they're copper, if they're all silver, well, they're aluminum.
I strip all my heavy copper wire for double the money. I also have everything sorted before going to the yard. I don't want to waste my time sorting things on site.
I understand paying less for dirty copper, but it seems like if anything the brazed copper should be worth more... our company only uses silfos 15...it seems like even with the extra other stuff, an extra 15% added silver would at least break you even, I mean, the cost of brazing rods.
It works both ways. You just mixed co ax with romex knowingly try to screw over the yard. Make friends with the yard. Bring them lunch, treat them with respect. Trust me it goes a long way and you get the best prices.
The co ax had an additional wire in it. Ask this question why don't they take co ax anyway? After years of them trying and cheating me and watching they cheat others I have this attitude only towards them....unfortunately not many options here. 100 miles up the road they treat us with respect roll out the red carpet. They help if something not processed is in your load.
Just think about how they treat people who really have no clue what they have. When I first started bringing in loads of scrap I didn't know much (different yard of course from you) they would short me because I didn't know. Then I learned and fought with them one day. Manager came over and corrected the pricing. It's sad they do that. And you make them a lot of money, so they shouldn't be jerks.
Since I've never seen anything like this before. Kinda wild. There's nothing like this out in this part of the country. So I'm assuming there are other guys that are doing the teardowns and these guys just sort it all out? Or maybe I dont know what I'm talking about.
If I brought scrap to my yard like that they would throw a fit…. Best to have everything in each category together my yard hates it whenever you have to sit there and sort it out
Be happy your on the coast here in land locked KommieRado we do good to get $50 / ton on steel..Most of the time it's only $40 / ton. Really not worth the 5o mile drive to get it there..
I don’t even bother with steel. I’ll keep the high value and let the old guy with the beat up truck have the steel. He seems to be able to sniff metal from a mile away. I just toss the pile out back and it’s gone in no time.
On those freezer coils, if you took a 4" grinder with a metal cutoff wheel you can rip right through all that aluminum in no time and get a better price selling the aluminum and copper separate, judging by the amount you had there?
My guess is somewhere through that load being so mixed up you probably lost at least 500 you need all your electric motors on one or two carts all you copper coils should be be in carts at the same time compressors same way that saves you and them time and keeps everything together so you make sure everything gets weighed and paid for no lost or misplaced items not getting paid for ive delt with several places over the years with computer systems and you need to make sure you get paid for everything they all make mistakes
Its the labor and machine cost....if I was doing it myself it would be more money for sure unfortunately adding the labor costs to it there is not much margin.
The amount of stuff I seen that could have been broken down even further and made 4x the money on, was crazy. I guess when you move a ton of stuff it dont matter, it would to me. All that romex that went unstripped, i cringed. lol
Yes we only have a certain amount of time for sure.......I will have more space soon and I can wait to take it in I might put a guy stripping all week long to get it done, quicker and more complete....
@@removeitprosdemolitionI wasn't meaning that to sound rude or disrespectful. I know now that is just a side job when you are slower on your main work. Micro scrapping is a lot of time but very worth it. Really like the channel so far!
Hello. Here in California you have to submit a thumbprint, and you have to wait for 3 days to get paid. 500 lb. daily limit. I would separate everything myself at the shopyard better. Hard work. Make everyone get a tetanus shot! We also have a place that takes paint, old computers and tvs. Laws are different in every state. Also, get help lifting heavy items to avoid getting a hernia.
@@removeitprosdemolition .... little embellished, but i would say more often than not... I've proved it in having identical pieces brought in on different days.... what can u do... I'm always thrilled to get cash for things that would've been garbage before ya.
It's also kinda frowned upon to sort at the yard. You slow their process down using all those carts for so long and hurt other customers satisfaction rate by holding them up
What are you talking about? We unloaded the whole load there. We didn't sort anything.at the yard. We had like ten pieces at the end of the truck that were random pieces and you just throw them into one bin and they do them each separately. New video on scrapyard coming out this next week.
I got an attitude about this place they have short changed me so many times. I think Its a culture-comes from the top. The person that helped us this time, was very helpful. I believe he or she (we couldn't tell) was on guard from our last visit. I got an attitude about it......I have over the years scrapped at many yards some do it well. Some are taught to take advantage, this yard is under new management/ownership and I am not entirely sure what the culture is they are putting out. We had a small trailer with a mix on it and they tried to screw me on that. I walked away of that one. A load that should have been 50 dollars was going to be three trips over the scale. Or $15 dollars if they took it in as shreds, some yards would have estimated the load given me something in the middle on price but they screwed it all up.
the guy loading the truck needs to understand the different grades and types of scrap. when i load my truck i separate everything so it is quick and easy once at the scrap yard.
Its a culture-comes from the top. The person that helped us this time, was very helpful. I believe he or she (we couldn't tell) was on guard from our last visit. I got an attitude about it......I have over the years scrapped at many yards some do it well. Some are taught to take advantage, this yard is under new management/ownership and I am not entirely sure what the culture is they are putting out. We had a small trailer with a mix on it and they tried to screw me on that. I walked away of that one. A load that should have been 50 dollars was going to be three trips over the scale. Or $15 dollars if they took it in as shreds, some yards would have estimated the load given me something in the middle on price but they screwed it all up.
Your wire would bring more money if you strip it and seperate it into grades. Basically the cleaner the scrap, aluminum, copper,brass, etc. the more it's worth because it takes less for them to process.
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You probably should have made contact earlier in the week and checked to see if you get there before hours.That way you don’t have to deal with all the other customers coming in.We found that is the best way to deal with large customers like you guys.There is some yards out there that will rip you off when given a chance.
I hear you. We have had great rapport and special pricing with all the various scrap yards in the past and special bulk pricing, but with this one. Sarasota yard called Sunshine they love us and bend over backwards to make thing easier and find way to pay you more. Its an extra 100 miles and the time as well.
When I was running scrap was the first three in line were given $.10 more per pound. So I left at midnight, drove 3 hours, parked first in line, went into the sleeper took a nap. They woke me up at 7 am, and i unloaded and was out of there by 0830 , and $2500 richer. We did that 6 days per week.
Wow good story!!!
I will try that....
This guy don't give a shit about taking up their time. This is a self entitled pos that the world revolves around.
I don't like to deal with so many different kinds of scrap at the yard at the same time. I take one or two different kinds to the yard at a time. I mix the coax in with the steel scrap and my yard is ok with that.
Yep its all about time and space for us our yard is small.
Your guess on the total dollar amount was technically correct, if you add all the guesses together ($3000, $4250, $4700) equals $12000. Great haul
Good math !!!
I work at a scrap yard here in Pennsylvania and where i work at we would have sent you across the bigger truck scale with all your aluminum copper radiators and the sheet aluminum. Other then that id say you guys did a hell of a good job at sorting. And also never sell you convertors to a scrap yard our yard dont take convertors without proper paperwork but we also pay some of the highest prices for copper and brass and aluminum. Great job
Thanks for your input!!
what #1 steel going for up north there a 100 lb? $11.00 bucks here in Kentucky rite now , not to good but been a lot worse in past
not that im going bring load that far just being nosey I guess
It goes up and down been about 10 cents a lb for a while here.@@danielhall-wl4ql
What part of PA is that scrapyard in?We have 3 yards in Lancaster PA.
Im glad u knew how to grade all that load. If u didn’t, they will give u the lowest grade and they will upgrade it when u guys leave. Beyond well worth for that trip to be begin with that trip👍. Good to know ur scraps 💯
The lady at the scrap yard said we know our stuff. They like the video it shows people what to do.
I learned the hard way. I would just pick stuff up here and there. For extra
It really does help building a rapport with scrap yard managers. I did with my local yard, hauled in 30 metric ton of prepared steel and he gave me $30.00 extra a ton over their list price. Then when you do stuff like prep a whole pallet of batteries so they only have to load it it resulted in me going from $0.35lb to $0.43/lb because they no longer had to pay their guys to gather, stack and wrap the pallet of batteries to ship. Now my numbers saved in the managers phone so I just call him when I'm coming in lol
We have had great rapport and special pricing with all the various scrap yards in the past and special bulk pricing, but with this one. Sarasota yard called Sunshine they love us and bend over backwards to make thing easier and find way to pay you more. Its an extra 100 miles and the time as well.
Corrosion should make no difference
I took batteries in and got like 0.06 that’s less than scrap metal.
yep@@lancekippenbrock5307
I used to go to a scrap yard in the U.K. and the manager used to invite me in for a cup of tea . 👍
I love your Channel my grandparents brought me up collecting aluminum and copper I was in charge of smashing the cans fun memories back when aluminum cans payed 35 cents a pound.
Thanks for watching....
Interesting to watch. I love it when you can salvage it and make money. And then they reuse it and it all works out.
Thanks I am addicted to it!!!
Wow 11K! Nice work. It’s amazing how everything has value and shouldn’t just be thrown away
We are doing another load here shortly curious to see how much.
How much did you pay your guys ?
@@PaulMarino-s1r Enough that they showed up in the morning.
You guys do a great job of processing the material
Thank you for saying so....do you scrap?
Buy some carts with wheels like the scrapyard has. Get trucks with liftgates. 😊
Got it!!
That’s Awesome 🤘🏻💪🏻 i love scrap. $11,000 that’s a legend there 💪🏻
Just did our next scrap video its a huge haul....$3X,XXX video out soon!!
@@removeitprosdemolition heck yeah 💪🏻💪🏻
You have a good Boss lads listen and learn from him , you won’t go far wrong .🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👏
I am intense but I make it so we all make good money, I don't get bullied. And I don't stupid stuff just because they don't understand what their boss told them.
Wow, all those copper ali rads 😄🧡 This is a perfect example of why tradespeople should collect their scrap, that being said, I'm glad they don't all do it or there would be nothing left for us little guys😂
We do a bunch of scrapping....
Haha, I like how you were keeping it real with the employees there 😂
One time when I had a construction job, I kept whatever copper I could find for a whole summer and cleaned it up, and when I went into the scrap yard and put it on the scale, the dude said something about giving me a lesser price under his breath, and I was like, "Wait, what? Isn't the price of copper $X.XX?" and he goes, "Only for clean copper." And I said, "Wait, this IS clean, though," and he points to literally about 8 inches of foam on ONE single 5 foot pipe that I found the day before and he goes, "That ain't."
Thinking he was joking, I kind of chuckled, and he goes, "I'm serious, I'm not cleaning that up," so I was like, "Ok, wait, don't weigh it yet," and I ripped it off in 10 seconds and got full price. It's like....I get where you're coming from, but come on, man!" 😂
They do that and don't say anything, I watch for it, if you ask questions they get pissed...............
oh, I sure do miss earl weber. one of the best men ive ever had the pleasure to know and work with. I spent years working with him, a most kind generous and honest man. I see they have changed the name of the business since his passing.
Who is Earl Weber?
earl weber sr started garden street scrap and metal from nothing. first beginning in Ohio and then creating scrap business in fort Myers. @@removeitprosdemolition
You need to take in smaller loads. Thats crazy no wonder you have trouble everytime you go. Do better seperating and organizing so you arent making everyone do so much work.
Or save up specific type of material and bring only that in.
Time is money we go when we can. The last time was better. these guys are new owner they are doing batter they had the foreman work with us last time and they knew about our video.
Woah ! $11.000 that’s a great weigh in more so when it’s over double yous expected ,amazing stuff to watch you show all the little stunts they pull to get metals a few cents cheaper which makes a lot of cash for them if there’s a load of scrap getting bought at a cheaper rate that makes bad buisness in my books, another great insight into the world of scrap metals,
Yes you got it right!!!
U gotta keepem separateratrd! 😆 Isn't that a song 😅.
Its hard we generally have 50 types and they have 35 bins, they want each separate item in a separate bins.
Yep but your old lady said that to me about a week ago. Tell her I said Hi 😊
The only way to find drama is to create it. Not to mention you say you have issues every time and the other yard pays more but you return. Seems like something a dramatic person would do.
So you think it's reasonable for them to have us? Unload the truck in the parking lot. And bring the carts up a 3 foot incline, 50 to 70 carts. And jockey them around all their other customers. Because we had so much more scrap than they did. Are you kidding me.
That Yard has ripped me off a few times. Good haul 👍
Me too!!
Whoa...........I was a demolition laborer. The smartest boss ever, had us cut n' weigh everything. When you had a even ton of anything he would broker it for the best price guaranteed. That's how he retired with a whole neighborhood full of houses.
I understand what he was doing! Where are you?
@@removeitprosdemolition I'm happy to be retired and having survived covid, not only in 2019 but survived it in 2020 and 2022 as well. Some people complain about brain fog, I have that from time to time, but I'm having great clarity because I'm not working my balls off anymore. Your best advice is achieved from retired people who can see others doing what they did, ( aka: running the Hamster Wheel). For some people they have to feel that chest pain and the unconscious ride to the Hospital. I'm just at a point now where the Brain is giving back to me.
@@paulneron375 Sorry to hear that. I hear the message....
Nice Haul - Gives me hope out in Milwaukee--
Good luck!
i sort my stuff BEFORE getting there...our yards are smaller though no way theyd have me unhooking trailers and spending the afternoon there lol
That why we had 35 separate barrels / bins in the truck. A few items on the tail of the truck go into mixed bins simply because they do not have enough bins.
I guess you didn't notice how they had everything SORTED!!!
What a crew bad azz great job and well worth the time I scrap as well copper from plumbing 😂it’s fun jus not when the guys here try to get me for some pounds lol
Thanks
A few potential process improvement options I see:
1. Perform finer sorting at your own site in advance of showing up at scrapper. Already mentioned by others.
2. Sell all to scrapper who will take care of finer sorting and selling the scrap to a recycler. You won’t get as much for your scrap but you’ll also have less labor cost. Your labor rate might be higher than theirs. Less of a benefit if you only take care of scrapping during downtimes and your labor costs are fixed / salaried. Definite benefit of avoiding hassles with recycler.
3. Create reference board with samples of different type of scrapping materials so team is better informed up-front and can perform unload / final scrapper sorting without you having to be so hands-on.
Thanks
You also know your scrap alot of people dont. The scrap yard i work at we are probably the fairest yard there is we buy it for what it is and if you put something with something else like your wire we would tell you about it and give you the option to take it back and sort it or we would do a 50/50 split. Unless weve told you about it before then we buy it for the lowest commodity
Yep I think I know it and things keep changing.
Great load of materials /cheers
Thanks
Scrap yards in my area wouldn't let you sort on sight like that. Way to many customers to jam the place up like that.
We Were Unloading We Weren't Sorting, the last few thing jammed it the truck were random and we consolidated them in one bin, it we put each in their own bin they would not had enough bins.
did you even watch the video? it was all basically sorted except the smaller stuff. that was a massive load so I'm sure the scrap company was fine with them taking their time as they were going to be making good money.
Nice work good price for copper 👍👍
Thanks 👍
That makes a good day even better.
Just got back from the Scrap Yard and I will be posting new video shortly.
Dont low ball this guy he knows what he gots😂😂
We learn each time we go......negotiated between two scrap yards to bring in this next load is bigger, heavier. Mucho dinero!!!!
I figured you were way low... my dad and I have a hvac company and took a f150 truck bed in loaded with A/c coils and got 2100 last week.
We are going again tomorrow!!
Man you could have done a lot better if you strip that wire.
I hear you the time is the problem I am paying someone to do it.
It's barely worth it on my own time. Sometimes I'll just pull the ground off and toss the rest aside
@@removeitprosdemolitionburn it
You could invest in a wire stripper that attaches to a drill and see if its worth the time then upgrade to a better one that takes less time. I work at a machine shop so i take what i can for scrap, cause they just toss it either way, I mostly grab the aluminum ( bar stock, bad cast parts, or the lazer sheets), stainless ( bar stock, bad parts, or lazer sheets up to 1/2" thick), and brass/bronze (chips, bar stock, bad parts). The thing I dont get is when you scrap the cast aluminum parts you dont get as much but isnt it the same as a cast aluminum vehicle wheel? I tried to ask them and they couldn't give me a good answer, google didn't help answer the question either.
And it would cost him 1000 in pay for someone to sit there and strip it all even with a wire stripper.. if your a person doing it on the side 100% it's worth it to strip it but at this level you waste more then you make by doing it
My buddy & I used to compete.
He would save up scrap for 6 months, I would build a car.
He cashed in his scrap and I sold the car.
I proved to him, its way easier and beneficial to build a car than it is to scrap cars & appliances.
He would make about 3 grand and I'd make 30 grand.
He died a few years ago and all the local scrappers had a field day at his house.
They were all happy to get $2 each in scrap.
😂
Build a car, it pays more.
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I don't know how to build a car or even have anywhere to put an extra car. 😊
Glad you're hobby pays well tho.😊👍
@@paulcoenen7918
It pays really well. 😂
@paulcoenen7918
Let's put it this way, my oldest just knows we had a car for every day of the week.
My youngest saw how much money I make per car and is now reading every automotive book he can get his hands on.
You should also.
Cars will always be around and will always need work.
I have made millions in the automotive world bud, not bragging, but just telling you it's possible.
People will always be breaking cars, make bank fixing them correctly the first time and everyone will go to you.
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Great load guys love how you separated everything
We have some experience, they are difficult they give us no respect. Have cheated me and others and I have an attitude because of that.
ha you said great load.
@@Al_Dente-d1p We are posting another video of our last run which was yesterday. It was even more and we improved our process!!
That is one amazing haul of stuff when I was watching all the stuff u where unloading I thought these boys are all way low on the predictions of what u will get paid great video new subscriber
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How much more would the Romex had been if you stripped it yo bare copper? (You can get motorized wire stripers to assist with that.)
Lots more.
Romex can be a real pain to strip if the line has been overheated at any point in time. A power stripper is really the way to go. Difference in price is probably worth the cost of the machine.
I scrap for a living and I will not take no #1 or big #2 copper in without stripping it worth a lot more money here we’re I live some states won’t take it if it’s been stripped but you all did ok but could of made a lot more money by cleaning stuff better and separating it better but I’ve worked in scrap yards for 30 years I love scraping
Its all about time, space and who is doing it. For us more time equals more profit for sure.
You should go there like every Friday...
Wish I had they time....
UR fav day! like a kid in a candy store! lol....
Yes I Love It.....
Plus you dont let them bully you.. I have seen that a lot at the scrap yards... Most have to just take it, but you have enough metal to get ur way! lol @@removeitprosdemolition
Jst subbed,Im a scrapper,not to the extent u r but I love it.Learned a bit here today.Thank you.
Awesome! Thank you!
Tightest people you’ll ever meet. Scrap dealers dealing with scrap dealers.
Sounds like you have experience? Do tell!!
He's got it under control, thats why he has to stay right there and watch, all ya gotta do is get a couple pieces of not cleaned copper in with the cleaned and you start losing money real quick. But taking it to recycle instead of junking it all he's keeping a couple people employed also. Gotta keep eyes on employees too, you go by their houses and find a hundred pounds of cleaned copper dumped out of a barrel in their driveway ( had it happen)that didn't make it to the recycler because you didnt go with.
Yup I hear all the words you are saying....
New subscriber. Your heavy Guage copper and aluminum wire, I would strip it and separate your number 1 and 2 copper. They will pay more for #1 copper. Not sure what you do with the rest of the stuff out of an a/c unite but if you have them take the fan motors as well and put them in a big box and wait until you have a full box of them. I'll have to check where we send ours and of course the compressors from the units as well. After making this comment I seen where you separated the #1 and #2 copper I would personally separate the compressors like Copelands is the ones you want to separate from the rest of the compressors. We take them to a company in tennessee.
We strip the super heavy copper wire, the aluminum we put in our shreds dumpster, its just not worth the effort. We recycle the fans and other stuff each month as we have enough. How much is your average load?
@removeitprosdemolition we separate the #1, #2, aluminum coils, copper coils, small wire, the thicker wire (copper and aluminum) we strip, fan motors, other then the Copeland compressors we put the others ones in a huge box weigh them, and there's a few other things we pull and put in metal 55 gallon drums and then we load into a truck and trailer to be sent off in which the weight is anywhere between 27k to 32k. I myself don't get to see the payout on the load though. I was one of the drivers that picked up the units to be taken back to the warehouse to be broken down. Occasionally if we get enough, we also done stainless steel. Whatever is left from the units gets put in a 40 yard dumpster and picked up for scrap metal by a local recycling company. Oh and any water heaters we get in, we cut the brass and copper, if any copper available.
Good information!!!Hope you subscribed.
@@removeitprosdemolition I did indeed. Y'all stay safe out there.
You might look into getting a large wire stripping system that can handle multiple wire gauges.
We have a small one, we can't support the wages doing the wire stripping....numbers don't work for us!!
Looks like yards are all the same. It took me a lot of trips to figure out how to prep my loads. Now when I go I”ll have a dozen bins, all sorted right down. Then some of the yards go ahead and mix them right on the scale, LOL.
I know and it kills me because they are so inconsistent. Different processor different rules.....how much was your last load?
@@removeitprosdemolition About $450. Only have a pickup, and go once a year or so. Definitely worthwhile.
@@tomrogers9467 I like it alot.
Love watching your videos how do you land jobs like this if you don’t mind me asking
Consistency, and 900 + 5 star reviews.
Lol as soon you said they will pay us more I would have booted you out. Pack up all your stuff you just unloaded lol. Yes I ran a reputable scrap yard up in Washington State. Used to deal with all kinds of assholes 😂
Yeah and if you watch all the videos you see them cheating (read the comments) and making stuff up.....doesn't change my day at all, I see them cheating people who are counting on the money as there next meal....its wrong. Pisses me off.
I do some copper and radiators but I've collected aluminum cans for years, I take 1,000 pounds of cans in at a time which takes about 5 months to collect and get about $550 for them at .55 cents a pound....
Is that a lot of work?
@@removeitprosdemolition Yeah, collecting cans is a lot of work but it's all the stuff I find while doing it that makes it worthwhile including the AC's , fridges and even stuff that I am able to resell online from dumpsters
@@brianflincher Got it. Part of your overall business plan.
Thats incredible! How much money that yard is making off that jackpot load of scrap and theyre bitching about minimal crap? Thats insane! Scrap yards around here are worse then used car salesmen. You have to watch them! Sad but true. Good on you for standing your ground brother. Thanks again for another great video!!!
Thanks for saying that....have they ever shorted you?
@removeitprosdemolition Oh yes. It was too late for me though. I got down the road to home as my Mrs looked over the paperwork.
@@HardKnocksTime That's how it happens...busy unloading and they slip it by....
@removeitprosdemolition Yes sir brother that is exactly right!!!
I looked at that eBay motor many times. Don't remember what kept me from buying it, but probably the shipping
Really.
@@removeitprosdemolition yeah, I built a continuous air compressor and needed a big motor. I ended up buying a new one instead. Didn't wanna design around a used motor and have it go out leaving me with finding one with the same mounts and shit.
@@theamaturepro Small world!!!
9:35 that Comanche is minttttttt
I didn't notice that but you're right
Hi, please can you tell me what the material is at minute 19.28 ? Is it a copper coil from a induction furnace?
Thank you great video
Coils from inside a outside compressor for air conditioning system.
That's a score!❤
Thanks!
All that sorting is complicated. Good on you guys tho for doing it.
Its also time consuming. Bernard is a blessing to us.
I just learned something I did know that those freezer coils were copper I always thought they were aluminum and threw them in my aluminum pile😮
Some of them are aluminum, some of them are copper. You gotta look at the edges if they're a yellowish red, then they're copper, if they're all silver, well, they're aluminum.
@@removeitprosdemolition thank you sir!
Heck when we come in with loads like this we always get a forklift box. It's a heck of a lot bigger
That's a good idea we simply do not have enough room at my shop for the boxes.
@@removeitprosdemolitionhe means at the scrapyard, they have huge "forklift" boxes for when you have large loads...
So how do they weigh "assemblies" of items like motors, and figure the scrap cost of the aluminum, copper, etc within?
Not sure.... I think they do it on averages.
I love scrap it’s like free money vs like you said paying to throw stuff away
Yuuuuppppp!!!
I strip all my heavy copper wire for double the money. I also have everything sorted before going to the yard. I don't want to waste my time sorting things on site.
Noted
You would think with that volume of metal they be rolling out the red carpet.
The last time we went they had a better helpful attitude. And the boss rang us out. They knew all about the video.
I understand paying less for dirty copper, but it seems like if anything the brazed copper should be worth more... our company only uses silfos 15...it seems like even with the extra other stuff, an extra 15% added silver would at least break you even, I mean, the cost of brazing rods.
I hear ya!!
It’s kinda nice to see regular people doing this kinda work instead of just meth heads.
Thanks we feel like we should recycle, its more work some more money but I pay guys to do it, so I have the labor costs.
It works both ways. You just mixed co ax with romex knowingly try to screw over the yard. Make friends with the yard. Bring them lunch, treat them with respect. Trust me it goes a long way and you get the best prices.
The co ax had an additional wire in it. Ask this question why don't they take co ax anyway? After years of them trying and cheating me and watching they cheat others I have this attitude only towards them....unfortunately not many options here. 100 miles up the road they treat us with respect roll out the red carpet. They help if something not processed is in your load.
1:33 who did that absolute ass wrap job? Who the hell puts text on a vehicle at a joint, when there's a whole window available?!
That's on me I positioned there it was on my last truck the same way.....only one in town Looks awesome.
doesn't even look bad. Why are you being rude? try going through life being kind, you'll get a lot more out of life if you shift your attitude
Damn, you can scrap coaxial Cable and cat 6 data wire up here in the northeast.
Florida is weird....
Just think about how they treat people who really have no clue what they have. When I first started bringing in loads of scrap I didn't know much (different yard of course from you) they would short me because I didn't know. Then I learned and fought with them one day. Manager came over and corrected the pricing. It's sad they do that. And you make them a lot of money, so they shouldn't be jerks.
They wanted us to load into the building from the parking lot because we had so much stuff. Ridiculous.
Great video btw!
Glad you enjoyed it
Since I've never seen anything like this before. Kinda wild. There's nothing like this out in this part of the country. So I'm assuming there are other guys that are doing the teardowns and these guys just sort it all out? Or maybe I dont know what I'm talking about.
I hope you subscribed, Thanks for watching. See you soon.
If I brought scrap to my yard like that they would throw a fit…. Best to have everything in each category together my yard hates it whenever you have to sit there and sort it out
Funny they seem to think we are one of the best at sorting and separating....their words not mine.
A funny way they rip you off is the refrigeration copper solder contains 2% silver! And they should pay you more for that reason, but it is a rip!
Wow didn't know that, its its number #2 copper should be $2.50lb. ish too right?
So that is what you call drama!
Little Drama.............shouldn't be no drama going to the scrap yard right???
Definitely not out here on the westcoast😂, too many crackheads n fentanyl ppl bring in stolen shit n ruin it for everyone else
Be happy your on the coast here in land locked KommieRado we do good to get $50 / ton on steel..Most of the time it's only $40 / ton. Really not worth the 5o mile drive to get it there..
Wow
@@removeitprosdemolition Price for new is approx $1 / pd vs 2-1/2 pennies for used 😟
I don’t even bother with steel. I’ll keep the high value and let the old guy with the beat up truck have the steel. He seems to be able to sniff metal from a mile away. I just toss the pile out back and it’s gone in no time.
@@tomrogers9467 "That Guy" died about 10 years ago and no one stepped up to the scrap pile.
Great job
Thanks.
Amazing 👍🇺🇸
Right on!! We save a bunch. We repurpose through our store. www.Reuseitpros.com
DAMNNNNNN........RIGHTEOUS BUCKS
Next video out in a couple of days!!!
On those freezer coils, if you took a 4" grinder with a metal cutoff wheel you can rip right through all that aluminum in no time and get a better price selling the aluminum and copper separate, judging by the amount you had there?
I will have to try that....thanks
My guess is somewhere through that load being so mixed up you probably lost at least 500 you need all your electric motors on one or two carts all you copper coils should be be in carts at the same time compressors same way that saves you and them time and keeps everything together so you make sure everything gets weighed and paid for no lost or misplaced items not getting paid for ive delt with several places over the years with computer systems and you need to make sure you get paid for everything they all make mistakes
Yes, every time we take in scrap, we get a little bit better at it.
I always strip the wires and cables before bringing it in. I get better prices that way.
Its the labor and machine cost....if I was doing it myself it would be more money for sure unfortunately adding the labor costs to it there is not much margin.
Who knew Mike was a scrapper on his time away from Gus.
Who is Mike?
With all that wire you’d make a killing with a full size stripping machine
It's all about time and labor....
Plugging up the whole operation
yes sir
The amount of stuff I seen that could have been broken down even further and made 4x the money on, was crazy. I guess when you move a ton of stuff it dont matter, it would to me. All that romex that went unstripped, i cringed. lol
Yes we only have a certain amount of time for sure.......I will have more space soon and I can wait to take it in I might put a guy stripping all week long to get it done, quicker and more complete....
@@removeitprosdemolitionI wasn't meaning that to sound rude or disrespectful. I know now that is just a side job when you are slower on your main work. Micro scrapping is a lot of time but very worth it. Really like the channel so far!
@@thebeardofgaming81 Never took is as being rude, i am learning everyday!!
@@removeitprosdemolitionjust wanted to make sure. Yes sir, ever quit learning, better see whats wrong. lol
Hello. Here in California you have to submit a thumbprint, and you have to wait for 3 days to get paid. 500 lb. daily limit. I would separate everything myself at the shopyard better. Hard work. Make everyone get a tetanus shot! We also have a place that takes paint, old computers and tvs.
Laws are different in every state. Also, get help lifting heavy items to avoid getting a hernia.
Lots of extra red tape in California from what I hear.
where do you get the scrap ? A/C companies dont just give this stuff away..
We demo 2000 plus places a year. www.Removeitpros.com One complex we just demoed had 40 outside units.
in Vegas forget it if u don't speak the Spanish or Spanglish...ripped off every visit lol... but i like the whole experience
Is that right?
@@removeitprosdemolition .... little embellished, but i would say more often than not... I've proved it in having identical pieces brought in on different days.... what can u do... I'm always thrilled to get cash for things that would've been garbage before ya.
Cut the steel/galv super easy ends off condencers and evaporators with a cut-off saw, the "macaronis" come off
I am not sure what you mean by that always want to learn....please expand.
It's also kinda frowned upon to sort at the yard. You slow their process down using all those carts for so long and hurt other customers satisfaction rate by holding them up
What are you talking about? We unloaded the whole load there. We didn't sort anything.at the yard. We had like ten pieces at the end of the truck that were random pieces and you just throw them into one bin and they do them each separately. New video on scrapyard coming out this next week.
Good info. Hard work for sure. The bald guy is a loud mule.
You earned your $$
I got an attitude about this place they have short changed me so many times. I think Its a culture-comes from the top. The person that helped us this time, was very helpful. I believe he or she (we couldn't tell) was on guard from our last visit. I got an attitude about it......I have over the years scrapped at many yards some do it well. Some are taught to take advantage, this yard is under new management/ownership and I am not entirely sure what the culture is they are putting out. We had a small trailer with a mix on it and they tried to screw me on that. I walked away of that one. A load that should have been 50 dollars was going to be three trips over the scale. Or $15 dollars if they took it in as shreds, some yards would have estimated the load given me something in the middle on price but they screwed it all up.
Great video new subscriber
Awesome thank you!
the guy loading the truck needs to understand the different grades and types of scrap. when i load my truck i separate everything so it is quick and easy once at the scrap yard.
Next load going tomorrow.
Wow what a load, greater video
Another video this next week same yard.
Baby sitting the scrap paid off
Helping so we could film. ;)
Nice video, I don’t get where you’re getting 11,000$ in scrap metal every 3-4 weeks but good for you lol.
It simply amazing we love it!!
Electric engines?!😂😂
Hard to think on your feet and talk. I out talk the speed of my brain sometimes.....lol
Some of the yards will only let you bring 5 different things at a time before they start taking money away
Why?
Also I can take in as many batteries as I like, why can you only take 2 at a time at that yard? Never heard anything like that!?
Nuts
Kinda blows me away how so many are intentionally dishonest.
Its a culture-comes from the top. The person that helped us this time, was very helpful. I believe he or she (we couldn't tell) was on guard from our last visit. I got an attitude about it......I have over the years scrapped at many yards some do it well. Some are taught to take advantage, this yard is under new management/ownership and I am not entirely sure what the culture is they are putting out. We had a small trailer with a mix on it and they tried to screw me on that. I walked away of that one. A load that should have been 50 dollars was going to be three trips over the scale. Or $15 dollars if they took it in as shreds, some yards would have estimated the load given me something in the middle on price but they screwed it all up.
Your wire would bring more money if you strip it and seperate it into grades. Basically the cleaner the scrap, aluminum, copper,brass, etc. the more it's worth because it takes less for them to process.
I agree the labor costs are to much, and they will not allow you to burn it off.