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Thogey wrote:Time to rent a chopsaw and get that job done.

+1

pay $50 +/- to rent a saw for a day and get $300-$400 per ton for scrap rail.

AGgressive Metal wrote:

Thogey wrote:Time to rent a chopsaw and get that job done.

+1

pay $50 +/- to rent a saw for a day and get $300-$400 per ton for scrap rail.

The scrapyards in San Antonio tell me it's against the law to recycle anything metal from a railway bed...spikes, tie plates, etc. They won't take it. Too bad because there is a track near my home and hundreds of pounds of loose metal strewn along the line within easy walking distance. I guess if it were open season on spikes at the recycler, some enterprising individual could start pulling them out and selling.

A lot of places want some sort of "proof of ownership" for anything rail-related. Can't say I blame them. People steal copper wire and pipes out of houses and power substations, what's to stop them from stealing steel from active rail lines if there is a market for the metal...

Found a brass valve with about a foot of 3" copper pipe still attached,this sucker is nice and heavy.

Hardly worth mentioning but took in 14 lbs of steel today that was scrap from job. Also had 7 lbs of UBC. Price for steel was down 2 cents/lb from Feb of this year.

Picked up about 2 pounds of mangled half inch copper pipe mixed in with crushed stone in a new parking lot.

We do roofing and remodels. There is TONS of scrap metal on old "hot tar" roofs. Lead, copper, aluminum, steel. When we tear off a roof, I always get the copper & lead. I let the guys keep the aluminum, and anything else.

Best I scored of late was somewhere around 300 lbs. of lead off one roof about 4 weeks ago. A buddy of mine recycled enough copper off an old Post Office job to pay for his wife to take a cruise to Alaska. About $2,000.00.

If you use propane, always stop and look for propane grills in the back yards of abandoned/foreclosed homes. They are still there about 50% of the time with the propane bottle still attached.

Dang! This reminds me to go back to one roof and ask the owner if I can have the old motors from his obsolete air handling units!!

Hey what happened? Did I kill the daily comments on this thread???

pulled 20 pounds of 3 wire and 20 pounds of 4 wire from a jobsite... unbelivable they left it...

I don't work a manly job. Today I scored 5 mangled paper clips from under my desk

NHsorter wrote:I don't work a manly job. Today I scored 5 mangled paper clips from under my desk

It all adds up!

When I open a can of orange juice concentrate I throw the steel lid in my pile.

CrazyTom wrote:

NHsorter wrote:I don't work a manly job. Today I scored 5 mangled paper clips from under my desk

It all adds up!

When I open a can of orange juice concentrate I throw the steel lid in my pile.

You are the most hard-core scrapper I know! I love it!

Today I scrapped a trailer tongue jack with a heavy angle iron bolted to it. About 15 pounds worth of steel.

silversaddle1 wrote:

Morsecode wrote:A construction crew grading for a new dedicated busway is tossing these into the swamp, just far enough out of their way to complete the job. The RR went defunct long ago, and no one appears to have any interest in recycling them. Juuust a tad too heavy to get into the truck

$400.00 a ton cut into 2 foot lengths.

400 bucks would pay for a cheap plasma cutter. Got a 220 genny?

captainpooby wrote:

silversaddle1 wrote:

Morsecode wrote:A construction crew grading for a new dedicated busway is tossing these into the swamp, just far enough out of their way to complete the job. The RR went defunct long ago, and no one appears to have any interest in recycling them. Juuust a tad too heavy to get into the truck

$400.00 a ton cut into 2 foot lengths.

400 bucks would pay for a cheap plasma cutter. Got a 220 genny?

I got a demo of a surprisingly capable 110V plasma cutter with a built-in compressor a couple weeks ago. Cute little thing Price was about $700 though.

I just took a part time job changing locks and taking pictures of foreclosed property for banks - don't worry I haven't gone over to the dark side of the force, lol. They guy says that anything not part of the house or nailed down is abandoned property and I can scrap it! I'm getting a light truck soon for sure!

AGgressive Metal wrote:I just took a part time job changing locks and taking pictures of foreclosed property for banks - don't worry I haven't gone over to the dark side of the force, lol. They guy says that anything not part of the house or nailed down is abandoned property and I can scrap it! I'm getting a light truck soon for sure!

That's really good news. I've been in a lot of forclosed homes and you'll probably make more money scraping and reselling furniture than you will from your job. I saw one recently that had a scrap SUV left in the backyard (and it was old enough that it didn't need a title to be sold as scrap).

Happy hunting!!

AGgressive Metal wrote:I just took a part time job changing locks and taking pictures of foreclosed property for banks - don't worry I haven't gone over to the dark side of the force, lol. They guy says that anything not part of the house or nailed down is abandoned property and I can scrap it! I'm getting a light truck soon for sure!

Yeah! I bet you have lots of fun with that! Happy hunting!

We have turned a new chapter at my little roofing company. We are going to scrap every piece of metal that comes off all roofs. The wife is on-board to drive the truck to the scrap yards.

Yesterday, I picked up about 5 pounds of old nails (cheap steel) and maybe 3 pounds of aluminum flashings. I am going to take one of my 35 gallon plastic drums and cut the top off it. Then paint "metal only" in English and Spanish. Should bring in a lot more metal.

Four 4" HVAC storm caps (aluminum) equal to about 6 pop cans each.

Two small fan motors for the copper.

Left three LARGE refrigerator compressors on the roof for I did not know if the oil was toxic. I learned it is not, so I will go get them tomorrow. (more copper & steel)

Darn! I need a bigger yard to hoard all this crap until I am ready to take it to the scrap yard.

found a very old circuit board with a ten pound transformer on it. Hope it has lots of copper in it.

picked up maybe 3 pounds of aluminum in the form of pipe-jack flashings today.

I free lance for a TV Station for sporting events. The Station provides a cooler of drinks for everybody.. and they all get tossed in the trash, so i bring a bag to work and crush the cans and take them home. I get 10-15 cans a game, 10 football games this fall, that's a maximum of 150 extra cans.

Update: I have my Ford Ranger with V6 and a bed liner and am ready to get after it!

AGgressive Metal wrote:Update: I have my Ford Ranger with V6 and a bed liner and am ready to get after it!

What......?

I see you in a Humvee!