Dumpster Diving at my new job

[86ford]

i NEED a place like this so bad i mite whore myself out for a truck full of goodies.... i am currently looking for some 4-6 inch c-channel for a bumper/tree guard/fawk it i am going anyway. i need to learn to weld, soon!

86

 

[Ranger5.0]

I used some i" thing plate at a work surface on my bench at work. You can realy beat the shit outta things when you have somthing solid behind them

 

[LearjetMinako]

2 cents per ton??? man they are offering like 95 bucks a ton for cars (last i checked) over here.....pick up a junker car and put the stuff you know you wont use in the back (like that 1'' plate)


nice finds though dude...lots of that stuff will come in handy...

I just went to the scrap yard. They offer $1 per 25lbs of scrap iron. And my Ranger weighs 3960lbs with me, my buddy, and my junk in the cab. Guessing the Ranger weighs somewhere around 3400lbs. And before you think it, I did not scrap my Ranger. Just scrap iron parts.

 

[Dishtowel]

okokok, I just realized I made a dumb mistake. I *MEANT* 2 cents per pound! SORRY GUYS, doh. SO, that equates to $20/ton.

Learjet that means your ranger is worth $68 to my scrap yard, and $136 to your scrap yard. The metal I collected *might* fetch me $20. FAR more valuable to my stockpile than to my wallet when I'm earning $22/hr.

Predator, that 1" would do good as a lifting tab on a loader attachment, such as the backside of the bucket or the bale handling fork for example. we built a manlift for our loader tractor, and had to fab up the appropriate union for it to attach to the loader frame. stuff like that.

metalmacguyver, I hear ya with "careful how big your 'goodie' pile gets", we did a clean up this summer and we hand loaded 7 tons of scrap steel (and if we can't use it, there isn't much left) into out dump truck to go to the scraper.

I'm excited for what I'll find next week!

 

[Dishtowel]

PS: Insanejughead, that grating is 1/8" x 1" deep, you can get it in varying sizes, and comes in 24' x 3' chunks up here in my neck of the woods. Obviously you can have the steel shop cut you a piece, remember that every cut costs money, so I would just ask for a 5' X 3' piece. best of luck with your grill, and I think I will steal my idea back and do the same once I get time!

 

[egnorant]

My Fellow Divers..

Good metal finds are getting rarer.
However, I hit our communal dumpster at work all the time.
Had a Xerox shop that cleaned out a lot of stuff and I got a rollaround toolbox and about 50 pounds of tools.
Best was all the micrometers and multimeters.
My neighbor buys a new lawnmower every year because he doesn't take care of them. Tosses them to the curb!! New spark plug and clean the carb and sell them for $100 or keep the riding mower that needed a new battery.

Built a fence and a workbench out of scrap pallets from a hose company that also supplied the scrap hose for my heater hoses.

One of my side jobs is with a couple of real estate companies to clean up houses. I often make more from the stuff I haul off than I do in payment.

Metal prices have jumped around here lately.
Without knowing the exact weights I took a 76 Thunderbird to scrap and got
$86 3 months ago.
Last week took a hard stripped and beat 76 Mustang II and got $176!!

Bruce
Bottom feeder

 

[Dishtowel]

I L-o-v-e My Job

WOOTWOOTWOOT
3 of 44" long 4.5" sch 80 pipe
2 of 2' long 4" X 4" X 1/4"
4' of 5" X 5" 3/8"
3 of 5' X 20" X 3/16" plate
8' X 3.5" of 3/8 plate

I'm loving that 3/16" plate, and my job. wootwootwoot

 

[Black'03LevelII]

sweet finds there!! I just scored one 6ft and two 2ft peices of 1" round tubing has 1/8 thick walls and is harder than all hell to bend (at least with not having a pipe bender) I beat the hell out of one of the shorter peices with a 15lbs sledge and couldn't dent it. not sure what I'm gonna use it for yet but I figure it can't hurt to hold on to it.

 

[Dishtowel]

Cold bending is defiantly an exercise in force. Use some heat. If I'm remembering the learning from my Strength of Materials course correctly.... heat does weaken the steel but you can generally recover most of that by quenching it after the bend.
(quench = dunk in a tub of water)

 

[Black'03LevelII]

I was thinking that too. I was wondering if this stuff would be good for say headlight hoops off a bumper to keep the headlights from gettin crushed or something.

 

[Dishtowel]

Sounds excellent, you can probably buy pre-bent/fabbed corners, but that would almost make it to easy! nono, totally just joking, I would use the corners if I knew where to get them. Plumbing/electrical supply place?

 

[predator]

I'd give you predators left nut for that plate steel. That's one hell of a find. I'd love to have a resource like that available to me.

come and get it......or at least a good attempt.......