Thread 2950315

Any scrap yard workers here? There are 3 within ~30 miles of me and I know that two of them are hiring but before I apply I wanted to ask first if it's common for them to let employees dive through the scrap?

Because if I saw a bin full of decent name brand sockets and ratchets etc. just being hauled off to be shredded that I couldn't save I would probably just quit anyway

>>2950315 (OP)
I would imagine they would let employees get first dibs on stuff as long as it didn't get out of hand. I know if I worked at a scrapyard I'd probably not even get a check at the end of the week because I'd weigh steel out across the scale and probably still owe them money. Kek!

Usually the people that work there are sub 50 iq and will die in 10 years from the hazards and toxins. Iron and tin get dumped into bin or thrown into a massive pile and picked up with a magnet. The other metals are also just dumped into bins. I have taken back thousands of pounds of old sprinkler pipe and brass heads. Iron is about 10 cents a pound and you will deal mostly with crackheads with shopping carts of gutters and downspouts getting $1.43 per cart load

The local yard here sells interesting things that get scrapped. I only saw large stuff so idk if it's just what the employees didn't want or if they have it set up an another side of the business.

>>2950315 (OP)
The ones near me both let the guys scrapdive to an extent, but those yards also resell a lot of what they get in.
I know the one closest to me had no problems with my just loading up an employee's truck with the old yard equipment I was getting shed of. But they also had set aside a bunch of cast iron coal and wood stoves and had them priced to sell.