Hi /diy/, I'm in between jobs right now and lately I've been collecting broken appliances from the curb and checking the dumpsters around my local apartments too. I've taken apart a few microwaves and resold a couple working mini-fridges. It's not a ton of money but it keeps me busy. Any other scrap collectors?
Look 'oney, the rag'n'bone mans back.
>>2967161Greetings fellow scrap enthusiast. Your biggest concern should be homeless bums with knives. Hope that helps.
>>2967186I have never seen a CAD drawing of some homeless encampment.Nice.
>>2967161Remove working parts and sell them on ebays. Scrap the rest.
I went to an estate sale once. Dude had a barn full of old woodworking tools. Drill presses, table saws, wood lathes, you name it. Guy was a hoarder. They were mostly smaller tools meant for a home shop. Craftsman, Rockwell/Delta, Walter-Turner, etc. Dozens of tools. They were in barn shape; grimy, rusty, covered in dust but mostly complete. In front of the barn a guy had pulled up a trailer and loaded it up with the electric motors. He took just about every single motor off of every single tool. He was talking to the person running the sale about what he was going to do with them."Yeah, I pull the windings out, put them in a pile, and set them on fire. That burns the enamel off of the wires so its just pure copper.""That sounds like a lot of work.""Yeah, but I can probably get a few hundred dollars for all of the copper in these motors."The motors alone were worth a few grand. Check eBay for the prices of vintage electric motors that are branded Craftsman, Rockwell, etc. They do not go cheap. Things like knobs, guards, fences, covers, lights? Forget about it. I talked to the trailer guy and bought a couple of the step pulleys off of the motors for $5 a pop. They were zinc or zamak so he didn't care. 5-step pulleys are crazy expensive. I also got a few of the larger motors. The most powerful was a ¾ horsepower Rockwell. $25 each. I then bought a few of the larger shop tools. I got a Buffalo Forge model 15 drill press, a Walker-Turner 'Light Heavyweight' drill press, a Rockwell Delta Unisaw (still had the motor in it because they are so huge they guy could get it out), a Craftsman model 150 drill press with a with a "Vari-slo" speed controller, and a Craftsman model 100 bandsaw with original stand. I bought a bunch of other little things and tools. I spent about $600. After a cleaning the Walker-Turner drill press sold $450. I got about $250 for all the step pulleys I didn't use on eBay. I still have everything else.
I have several people that save cans for me and then I have a bunch of old city trash cans, Craigslist freebies, that I gradually fill with various grades of copper and brass. I don't knock myself out, whenever they're close to maxing out my ability to roll them on the trailer I'll haul them to the scrapyard. Yeah the transformers in old microwaves are 3-5lbs of copper a pop, just gotta cut a little bit of weld. Newer ones are coated aluminum
>>2967243>I have a bunch of old city trash cansI tried something similar but wife had a fit so I can't scrap metal.
>>2967222>CAD drawing of some homeless encampmentczechd toosyou should see the posterboard sized cad dwgs displayed at left coast utopia metro city council meetings when discussing how to deal with them. millions have been spent paying consulting firms to have their jr engr shit employees make color glossy multi layer plan views of blue tarps and sidewalk shitting zones
>>2967247Our City Council's grand plan was just to keep clearing encampments. The homeless pack up and pop up somewhere else. So, they clear them again. Over and over. They can't arrest them because being homeless isn't a crime. They are paying cops overtime to clear these encampments while running on being fiscally responsible and not solving the problem. Build a homeless shelter? Nah, that would cost money. Make a designated homeless campground? Nah, that would cause crime. Try to get these people into low cost housing? Nah, that's socialism. They spent several hundred grand fighting a lawsuit that would allow them to keep clearing encampments though. And lost. So now we have encampments all over fucking town, they can't clear them anymore, and they won't build a shelter or a city maintained campground. Meanwhile, they wring their hands about the problem while running for re-election year after year. Meanwhile our cops are being paid more then any other city employees. Their total compensation packages are so huge they passed a sales tax increase to cover all the 'safety' they are providing. They are some of the highest paid cops in the state. At least our fucking roads are falling apart. They don't want to spend money to fix them. Fucking hate 'small government' obstructionists. They pay lip service to that cause just so they can not solve any problems and not take the blame.
>>2967253Just put them on a bus and send them to some liberal city
>>2967253The homeless don't want to be in a homeless shelter because they are crazy and or want to do drugs.You can't give them free housing because that's socialism and they would destroy it and all the normies that have to actually work would be incredibly resentful if this free housing didn't come with the same restrictions as the shelter.
>>2967255Any money that isn't spent on more cops and small business won't get past the council. Who's is on the council? Small business owners and a former cop.>>2967260You should run for our city council. They say the same shit and do nothing about the problem. Do you perhaps own a small business? What are you opinions about not paying for road improvements ever?
>>2967273Gather all the small business owners and equip them with pitchforks and torches. Then go and impale the city council and cremate their corpses.
>>2967253Pay the cops even more overtime to make the homeless go on death marches during the winter/summer. Shifts and shifts of cops constantly harassing them, not letting them eat, not letting them sleep, not letting them drink.
>>2967300At that point just shooting them and dumping them in a ditch is cheaper.
>>2967237Why do people want this antique crap? It's not like they were good machines even when they were new, solidly built sure, but the technology was crap.
>>2967335It's not about the money, it's about sending a message.
>>2967369>solidly built sure, but the technology was crapYou sound like someone that has never actually used an old drill press. Exactly what technology has improved in the last 80 years? The major quality you want in a drill press is 'solidly built'. You want thick castings, you want weight, you want rigidity. They have it. Some chick shit sure as hell doesn't.
>>2967273Okay. Your apartment has been confiscated for the Greater Good. Enjoy your 15 new room mates. Stop resisting and go back to work for your new overlords
>>2967253my city just runs them out of town in to the next city over. problems solved.
>>2967369you have no idea what you are talking about.
A bit more since last time. Stripping wire with a knife is slow going. I will probably buy a wire stripper eventually. I am not sure why the thread devolved into /pol/ posting.
>>2967253Remove the jews and save your country
>>2967384Over paying jew foot soldiers isnt much of a message. Just general kike retardation
>>2967614It's kind of working for ICE at the moment. Some people are self-deporting. But I can see how it won't work for the homeless because they're mostly made up of retards and druggies.
>>2967604>Muh /pol/Typical liberal knee jerk. /pol/ has nothing to do with it: every hobo that interferes with my scrapping is white.
>>2967405What could go wrong?
>>2967830Being an adult means realizing that Sheriff Teasel was 100% in the right>Smelly dirty knife wielding hobo wanders into your nice quiet mountain town>"I'm headed to Portland">Give him a ride in the direction he's going>"N-no I don't like that, I'm gonna go back and prove them wrong by being a *violent* smelly dirty knife wielding hobo"I mean maybe he could've thrown him a meal or something but he literally just drove him to the edge of town and said "Portland's that way"
>>2967834It's also dumb because a sheriff would be like whoa shit you were a green beret? You guys were so cool there. When I was there I was just stuck patrolling between two hills and getting shot at for 2 years.
>>2967186Just got back from the yard with today's profit. It's too bad you're afraid of homeless people.
>>2967841How long did it take you to accumulate all that?
>>2967843Yesterday.
>>2967845Damn, nice chunk. Does your yard keep any records that might result in having to pay taxes?
>>2967848My yard pays 2% less if I choose cash, which I do.
My local yard pays absolute shit. But it's better than paying to dump it at the landfill or have it trashing up the farm. I make sure I collect an entire dump trailer load before hauling it in so I don't waste fuel on extra trips.
>>2967841What was made of tin that was over 500 pounds?
>>2967866That's any metal <1/8" thick. It's called "tin shred."
>>2967836There's medal for Korea on Teasel's desk. This implies that he's a vet himself, but he didn't turn into a miserable hobo, so he probably can't relate to PTSD struck Rambo, plus he's probably a little butthurt that his war was forgotten quickly, while Vietnam was all the rage and thus he feels Rambo is being pretentious. It still makes him a petty character with bad personal traits, but it does explain his attitude.
>>2967841I won’t get into a knife fight over a few aluminum cans.
>>2967841Then how do you deal with the homeless?
>>2968241Give them machetes and fireball
>>2967161>>2967841Those rates are pretty pathetic. I know obviously you're selling it to a company thats selling it to another for processing etc and everyone needs their cut but unless your area routinely has hundreds of pounds of high grade scrap for free I can't see this being very worthwhile.Personally I'd rather build up a massive scrap pile on my property somewhere, maybe doing melts like those stacking guys. Then just wait for the economic turmoil / collapse of the USD and go "well... instead of $1000 spread out over years of scrapping instead I have a couple tons of variable grade metal here worth 10's of thousands in whatever the new currency is. Most loads of scrap that net you $100+ are going to be days of gathering and disassembling and sorting scrap. I dunno am I crazy for thinking $0.xx per pound for metals sounds like you're giving away too much of the value there?
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>>2968241Pressure keeps bums moving. So when I find a bum defending a dumpster, I go into the store and joke about their "homeless camp in back." I remark to the local nogs that their is cute white guy staying behind the building. I leave trash around the area. Works pretty quick.
>>2967841Congrats you made.... 300 bucks or so? Sure worth fighting the homeless over. My normal job pays almost twice that per day.
>>2968267It's nice to know that you have a high paying job. Maybe small scale scrapping isn't for you.
>>2967253It’s pretty well known by now that cities generally keep a certain homeless population to point at for sinking millions in funding to “help” “solve” the homeless problem, which is then stolen by city employees through contractors and middlemen.It’s pretty easy to solve the problem if you think about it.>>2967255They would never put them *all* on a bus, just if they become a problem.>>2967260You don’t have to give them free housing, just temporary hoteling (not a literal hotel) and shelter.If it’s cold, you can use the exhaust heated air from other buildings.
>>2967964> that his war was forgotten quickly, while Vietnam was all the rageWhat is the TV show M*A*S*H about?
>>2968276A quirky jew, a degenerate jew and a big tittied hoor
>>2968276It's set in Korea but is very clearly about vietnam
>>2968286Which one is quirky?
>>2967834>t. didn't actually watch the movie.
>>2968275>If it’s cold, you can use the exhaust heated air from other buildings.Would the exhaust from my vehicle work?
>>2968347Hawkeye
>>2967841That's a nice chunk of change. How do you move all that steel around?
>>2968397Chevy C-10. Put a screen in front of the rear window so it doesn’t get broken when you throw in pipes. Put a chain and padlock under the hood, and lock the doors when out poking around construction sites and dumpsters. But will they steal scrap out of the bed? Yes, it’s just part of the job. Try to be aggressive and scary.
>>2968404>Put a chain and padlock under the hoodDo you mean lock the hood closed?
>>2968587Yes and leave it enough slack so that the hood will open 6" so you can unlock the padlock. One of the problems with scrapping is that thieves see your shit as fair game to take.
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>>2968653Where are you getting your "batteries, auto"?
>>2968669>14lbs Probably a lawn mower battery, or some batteries out of EXIT signs. I've scrapped out a few of those, that's about right
>>2968686746 lbs at bottom
>>2968688AhYeah people toss regular car batteries. I got 40 at once from work when they replaced the UPS in our server room
>>2967247It's really not that bad
>>2967186>truck parked crooked over a spot it never could have fit in anywaythis is way funnier than it has any right to be
>>2967247>hobo was able to afford a garage for his new car and an addition to his house thanks to hard work and gumptionthe american fucking dream right here
>>2967161Are you perhaps romanian
