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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => 73-87 Chevy & GMC Trucks => Topic started by: Cheyenne on April 23, 2011, 01:27:00 am
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I from time to time go scrapping to get metal etc the prices are good right now. It's crazy by me people are driving 2000 and up trucks there nice to.. People need money I guess. I use mine but if I do never beat it uo I have a sprayed in bedliner and diamond plate on sides to protect it.. With the gas prices though it does not make much sense to be scrapping in a old truck. Maybe a s10 with a trailer on the back lol.. Anybody else out there use there like this and in the past? One day I want to finish the truck off and park it for now she working lol..
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All the scrap trucks I see around are Fords, maybe they weigh in, pull them up, get out and walk up to the weigh out scale, or at least thats what they should do! :D
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Won't make any money using an S10. One they don't carry much, two if you load them a few times they are not going to take it. I use both my 3/4 and 1 ton dump for scrapping. 3/4 for light stuff cans, batteries etc. The 1 ton for the heavy loads. I have rolled across the scale a few times with 7,500 lbs plus on it.
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Right on man 7500 is a good load.. Yeah the fords melt them down and turn them into a real truck Chevy how I do it.. I use to work at melt shop in a mill good times the mill is the best part rolling some steel.. People out have s10 and trailers on them beat them till there scrap the prices are good right now..
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ive had my 1ton weighing 10000lbs and it had no probs doing it uphill. then again i got a dumptruck motor in it the nice 366 bb and man it pulls i love the way i can do stuff with it and not have a issue like a trailer we were hauling off weighing in at 1000lb fell on the bed rail and did nothing to it but put a lil bend in it not even a half in difference from it. these trucks are the best to me and are super strong even rusted out like min they can still do whats asked
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I got about 3500 lbs of steel i hauled off a couple of weeks ago in my truck. Had to do it in 2 loads though because it all wouldn't fit.
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I'm down here in Texas and there seems to be a lot of scrappers. How much does about 4000 pounds go for? None of the scrappers around here will share any details.
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$320 here but thats just cause prices are back down do to everyone here is back to doing it from the warm weather. we had prices at 14 per hundred and it would be 560 for 4000lbs of metal. so its a good business just you have to keep the metal coming to gain profit
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The prices are what the steel mills set them at there still pretty high.. Out here say going by even pounds like 12 and half cents a pound.. Which is really good sometimes it's a 7 cents etc and you just trying make your gas money back.. Learn what days have garbage days go early go late etc etc.. Get some hot water heaters and a washer you doing alright.. It's not a great gig but I put on my tunes drive my rig and hope I make some money.. Good to see there others doing the same..
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I from time to time go scrapping to get metal etc the prices are good right now. It's crazy by me people are driving 2000 and up trucks there nice to
Thats what I use to haul my junk cars to the crusher and back from the auction. A 2000 Chevy crew cab hooked up to an 18' Big Tex trailer with an 9K Superwinch on it.
BigChevy, When you say $320 is that for #1 steel?
I don't really deal with #1 steel, but around here in Mass scrap vehicles are going for $220 a ton. Batteries get $9 each, aluminum wheels run $12 each if you leave them on the car. Converters bring the $$, I average about $100 a converter.
As far as fuel goes, there is a big advantage with dealing with complete vehicles as opposed to just steel. Lots of free fuel to be had from these junkers.
Getting back to our trucks, I plan to make my 81 stepside my hauling truck once I put the big block in it.
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fitz what i was talking about is for just mixed steel that goes through the crusher right on the spot. it like 10 bugs for #1 steel i believe. so far the vehicles ive gotten to scrap i hate to see go are 1940-1940 model cars and trucks so not cats or gas as everything is rusted out. we pulled the back part off a cab just by hand no tools or anything its that rusted. guy that gave it to us is giving it for free we just have to get them out of a gully which he is helping us do with a tractor
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Most of the cars I send to the crusher still run. Around here the emission laws are fairly strict (vehicles 1996 and newer get emission tested/1995 and older just get a safety check). This sends allot of vehicles to an early grave.
I've got a few oldies and chevy trucks along the way as junk. The strangest 1 yet was a 1954 Morris Minor woody wagon that was right hand drive. It was stored in a shed for 25 years. That 1 I saved.
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the cars we got so far are so rusted from being in a gully that you can kick the fenders and they will fall off. when getting a old ford truck frame out it busted in two from the rust
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The emissons here are to strict 1976 and up
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I use my 87 V3500, yeah the gas prices suck but you can carry a pretty good sized load with an 8 ft. bed. I generally don't ever even get enough in two loads to use the weight rating but I got the 1 ton for the right price. I couldn't see using an s10 as the bed is so small though I am most limited by volume not weight rating. The majority of the trucks I see are 90's half or three quarter tons. But you do occasionally see a new body style one, the last week or so I saw an 08 or so nice short bed single cab with a ton of scrap in it, just garbage picked. I mean I can see if you had a bunch of copper or something just throw it in the bed but those trucks are so nice I wouldn't want to put a load of crap in it new, but hey thats what its for it's a pickup truck not a cadillac.
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Yeah times are rough right now I agree mostly 90s trucks but I do see the new ones to, maybe people out of work or side money pay for a 08. I see a few with the 73-87 after a bit you start to reconize the other trucks.. These gas prices driving a 80 k10 are making me thinking about not doing it anymore till price drop.. I got a half ton but I put it to use.. In the summer there a lot more scrappers compared to the winter that's for sure..
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i use my 86 for haulin scrap atleast 3 times a week. i gotta keep gas in the pig somehow. lol. before i started using my chevy, i had a 94 f150 and i had it so full of scrap, that i busted 3 of the 5 leaf springs in the rear. and i drove it crooked like that for about 2 months. then finally the steering/front end got so bad i couldnt go over 30 mph, so she got scrapped. best $413.86 i ever made.
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and here it sits as of now.
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Now that scrapping what do you have in the truck?
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so she got scrapped. best $413.86 i ever made.
Did you cut the cats out of it?. At today's prices the 2 cats in that truck are worth about $60 each.
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when i snapped the springs in my ford, i had an engine from an International 966 tractor. (spun a bearing and shot chunks of piston 30 feet, through the block. lol) and a half-working silo blower and some other small stuff. lol. i forget how much it weighed.
i didnt cut the cats out of it. i forgot about those. it had a newer exhaust on it too. :(
it was a 1 owner truck too. my dad baught it brand new and still owned it when i was driving it. it had 211k miles and still ran strong.
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Scrappers in my neck of the woods all get various gages of fire arms pointed at them :D The theft rate of old cars and stuff on farms has went through the roof. A farmer here that restores old tractors had 100.000 dollars with of antique tractors stolen off his property and they caught the guys hauling the stuff into the re cycler. I think all the scrappers around here are tweekers anyhow. Don't even get me started on copper theft :o
Im not saying you guys are doing anything bad. its just around here the cops and residents watch scrappers like hawks due to the theft.
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Im not saying you guys are doing anything bad. its just around here the cops and residents watch scrappers like hawks due to the theft.
It's the same around here, lots of thieving going on. I run ads for "cars wanted" in the local paper so people are calling me to come get the cars. I get the title,registration, or proof of insurance that has the VIN # and the owners name on it before I haul the away vehicle.
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How much you guys paying for cars and what profit you make?
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some scrapper stole a 700r4 and a good transfer case out of the back of my truck about 2 weeks ago. the trans was dead but still its the point of it.
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if its not mine, i ask the owner if i can have it or how much they want for it, and if i can make a profit, i usually buy it. if its a vehicle, i always get a title, otherwise i dont get it. im working on buying a building thats worth atleast 5k in scrap. im paying the guy 500 bucks for it. 1/3rd of everything i make, is going to be used to fix up my 87.
and last time i checked, the place that pays the most around here, was at $245 a ton.
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good you maing money so you give them a $100 how much? than run it to the yard? how much you make off each car? thanks
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well if its something that has alot of parts, ill strip most of the useable parts and then take whats left to the scrap yard. if you want to buy a vehicle for scrap, dont pay more than $100 a ton for it. well up here anyways. it was $235 at the local scrap yard a few days ago.
so that leaves $135 for profit. usually the $35 would be for gas to go pic up the vehicle and taking it to the yard, if not a few bucks more.
then the $100 or so and that would be the final profit. which usually goes towards parts for my truck. lol
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How much you guys paying for cars and what profit you make?
I pay $300 cash for every car I can get my hands on.
These are the well thought out calculations I go by (scrap is up this week to $230 a ton).
The average car is 3200lbs (neons are less/broncos are more) so I find this a good # to use. 3200LBS @ $230 per ton = $368.
Converters average $100 each (neons have 1, most broncos have 2) but about 10% of the cars I get have aftermarket converters. Those aren't worth the sawzall blade you cut them out with so I leave them in. $100 is a good average.
Batteries are $9 each.
25% of the cars I get have aluminum wheels on them which add $52 to the car. So that averages out to $13 a car on the rims.
On average that comes out to $490 a car minus the $300 purchase price. So it's a proffit of $190 on average. Not bad for a few hours work.
Toss in the occasional Chevy truck you will score and it's a good side job.
It may not get you that mansion up on the hill, but it in todays economy, every thing you do will help.
And as I mentioned before, there is free gas to be had from these vehicles.
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If it is a car that I can part out I will pay alittle more for it. I bought a s-10 about a month ago for $300. I stripped the good parts off and sold them for $350, so when I sold the rest for scrap it was all profit.
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The only ones I save to part out are the chevys. I've got many good parts trucks from this. I know a guy who is into broncos like we are into our trucks. Any fords I trucks I get I try to drop of at his house. I let him strip them and I pick them back up in a week or two. He does landscaping so he gives my number out to any of his customers wiith cars laying around the property. He has gotten me a lot of cars this way. It's a win win situation.
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How can you tell what convertor if it's stock or not I don't want to cut them off if it I won't make out on it.. Anybody do the regular garbage route?
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Generally speaking the aftermarket converters are smaller than the factory ones.
Sometimes it will be obvious like a bright shiny converter. Other tell tale signs are new exhaust pipes on both sides of it, adapters used to hold it in place, clamps when the factory would have welded it.
It's not the end of the world if you cut them out, it's just that you get spoiled on the $100 cats.
I say you grab a car trailer and have at it.
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Yeah I sometimes hit up the free stuff on craigslist! Do the local garbage route but places like lowes take away the old washer and dryers!! Driving around wasting gas digging through garbage is not fun lol.. So you guys offer 300 a car?? I'm trying to start my own reo trash out buisness going the llc route.. I want do that the right way though bond license and insured so I can get accounts with safe guard etc and realtors!!
What kind of trailer should I look for?? How much they cost.. Do you use wood ones what wheel base etc thanks for the input
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I use a 18' Big Tex trailer with a solid diamond plate deck. I have an 9K lbs Superwinch. This set up would cost you about $4500 to buy new. You can definitely get by with a cheaper set up. I bought every thing new as it was a company write off.
So far this combo has done every thing I've asked of it. Might upgrade to an 20' trailer this summer.
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Nice trailer man haul get payed!!
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How much you get for pallets?? I have 2 ten footers I had them cut in half.. How much are people getting for pallets??
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Cheyenne. Just wondering if you bought a trailer and got your business up and running?