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Went to a scrap yard in Gary and saw something that bugged me
So I was at this scrap yard in Gary last week dropping off some old boiler tubes and I noticed a pile of copper fittings just sitting there mixed in with regular steel scrap. The guy running the yard told me most people don't bother sorting them out because it takes too long. But I did the math in my head, about 40 pounds of copper at $3.50 a pound, that's $140 just thrown away. I spent an extra 20 minutes digging through and pulled out another 15 pounds from a different pile. How many of you guys actually separate your metals before hitting the yard?
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michael8951mo ago
And that's funny because I had the opposite experience last month. I brought in a toaster oven I found on the curb, figured I'd scrap the cord and heating element. The guy at the yard gave me $2.50 for the whole thing and looked at me like I was wasting his time. Meanwhile the guy ahead of me had a truck full of clean copper pipe and walked out with $400. So I guess it really depends on what you're bringing and who's behind the counter. Some yards have a scale that seems to read light if you're not a regular.
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park.adam1mo ago
Read somewhere that some yards literally have different price sheets for walk-ins vs regulars, which is wild if true lol. Guess it pays to scope out a place before you haul in anything.
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