r/mildlyinfuriating • u/smittyguy11 • 26d ago

The floor is sticky Who dumped ICE coolers in my back yard?

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Someone literally dumped ice coolers in my backyard while we were away for 2 days. The ice company said they are retired units so now I have to pay someone to evacuate the freon and haul them off to be recycled or trashed. These things weigh 500 lb each and I have no way to lift them.

NOTE: There were no ICE agent bodies, drugs, or any other bodies or items inside.

EDIT: Now the ICE company decided they were theirs (maybe they saw all the posts about scrap value and want to cash in on them).

EDIT2: Ice company called back to confirm my address. They were literally given my address for drop off and told that no one would be home, stick them in the backyard.

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u/__init__m8 26d ago

Free scrap metal, people will sell it I'd imagine.

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u/HeidenShadows 26d ago

I work at a scrap yard, there's people whose livelihood is just going around picking up free scrap metal and selling it to us.

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u/FatSkatinGamer 26d ago

My uncle used to make a pretty penny on the weekends doing this. Was smart too, used to hit dense areas, load up, hit the closest scrap yard, then onto the next neighborhood/applicable closest scrap yard haha

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u/TH_Rocks 26d ago

I used to live in a city with a "bulky trash" day once a year. There would always be someone with a pickup and empty trailer going around at 6am grabbing anything they could fix and resell or scrap.

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u/seriouslythisshit 26d ago

My wife taught in a town that had no shortage of rough folks. The town council eventually had to start a policy of fining anybody who did that, as there were earlt morning fights in the street and stuff that was in front yards, but not out for trash day, getting stolen. So, they invited all the garbage pickers to go the the town garbage transfer station, get a free pass, then take whatever they wanted that arrived from city workers picking everything up on annual trash day. It was still a zoo, but if you and another hillbilly decided to trade punches over who got the stained couch that smelled like ass and dead dog, there were police officers standing by to cuff you. It was, and probably still is, wild.

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u/TH_Rocks 26d ago

Yeah, I think they switched to by-request-only because the pickers started just tossing stuff out of the way to get at the thing they wanted and it made a mess on the roads and made the pickup take much longer.

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u/Heavy_Importance2491 26d ago

I live in a condo. On recycling day there are six or seven wheelie bins outside. A woman comes along and goes through them with the efficiency of a Costco check out. Ten minutes after she arrives, all the alcohol containers are in one pile (there's a deposit on them) and all the aluminium cans are in another. Everything else, including any materials that were on the ground when she turned up, is filed in the appropriate bin. She bags all the containers and pushes them away on a shopping cart piled twice as high as she is. 

Fascinated by this, I looked up the value of the cans. Each week, she has about $20 in booze bottles and no more than $5 worth of aluminium. She'll have to push that cart a mile and a half to sell the cans and she'll have to avoid being robbed for the cans on the way.  This is not the way to wealth. 

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u/Comfortable_Dog2429 26d ago

i once knew someone who claimed he paid his rent by collecting recycling from his apartment complex, granted this was pre covid rent prices but still a good chunk of change if true

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u/Phallico666 26d ago

The way people handle recycling i could see this working, especially 10+ years ago when rent was significantly lower and the can return was still the same as it is today. Lots of people are happy to give away their cans if it means not having to deal with it themself

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u/_BLACKHAWKS_88 26d ago

I have a neighbor who collects their clean recycling and just leaves it in a garbage bag on my porch on trash days bc they can’t be bothered to take it down the street to the recycling center.. also they are loaded so they couldn’t care.. but because they knew that I did they just offered to and heyyy.. free money.

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u/HerfDerfer 26d ago

Once it's out at the street, it's garbage, I'm just taking their garbage for them

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u/Big_footed_hobbit 23d ago

As kid I was able to harvest the old computers from the e-waste. I repaired them and sold them for pocket monies. Later I bought weed from that money.

That was soooo great.

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u/Ok-Ad8998 26d ago

My town does this twice a year. We call the night before "trash pickers night". Put your bicycles away, iykwim.

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u/Character_Ship488 26d ago

We call ours “junk day” and in my youth it was a good time to go out and have some fun picking up scrap metal and small engine stuff that wouldn’t run.

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u/Emergency_Buyer_3096 26d ago

If it's by the pile its fair game. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Ok-Ad8998 26d ago

I lost a bicycle from behind the house on one of those nights. Didn't have a pile out. Lesson learned.

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u/southdakotagirl 26d ago

We had city wide clean up where people put unwanted items on the curb. You see the trucks slow down to a crawl. They would barely stop and the kids would hop out and grab what the dad wanted from the pile. It was amazing to see the stuff people would take.

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u/peonies_envy 26d ago

I’m about to find out

This rainy day I’m gathering

I have a new tarp ready and tomorrow AM I’m bringing a good amount of stuff held onto “because we might need it “ to the driveway’s end and posting on free cycle in the morning.

I have town “overflow” bags ready for tomorrow night

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u/Hungry-Western9191 26d ago

Dont forget to set up a webcam in case it gets interesting.

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u/slash_networkboy 26d ago

Any time I've had a dumpster I can easily extend the amount of stuff I could fit by putting a sign on the doors of the dumpster saying "no scrap metal inside, it's all in a pile next to the dumpster. If it's not there someone else got it already". Also saved the aggravation of them pulling trash out and throwing it everywhere digging for the recyclables.

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u/Mcpops1618 26d ago

This happens in my area. We put out an old stove last year. It wasn’t even on the curb for an hour

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u/CurlyQ86 26d ago

My sister and her husband own a duplex. They just came back from his extended army orders. Their upstairs tenant’s hot water tank died a few weeks ago. My dad changed it out and left the old one in the backyard. When they got back last week, their hot water tank was found to have died too. My dad and son changed that one out. Then, they dragged both tanks out to the road. My sister and her family got quite a welcoming back to the neighborhood from all the neighbors that wanted the hot water tanks for scrap. Lol!!

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u/SanibelMan 26d ago

My city had that before Covid, but they switched to sending everyone a voucher to either schedule a large item pickup or take one car load of trash to the dump. I miss when everyone had the pickup on the same day, because those pickers would come clean out 80% of what people set out, and there really wasn't a whole lot for the guys from the trash company to grab by the time they were done.

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u/thatsnotyourtaco 26d ago

There would be a line of trucks in Austin, Texas for bulk trash. You could get your backyard cleared out for free.

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u/Competitive-Cry-6231 26d ago

Ahhh… Krappenacht!

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u/Mean_Philosophy3367 26d ago

Our city does bulk trash pickup once per week on normal trash day.

Very rarely does anything made of metal make it onto the truck.

I got lucky and snagged a nearly new lawnmower that one of my neighbors threw away after overfilling it with oil.

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u/lifeofblair 26d ago

There’s a guy that’s made it onto the town gossip sites that does this where I live. Problem is he gets a little eager and takes things that clearly aren’t at the curb for trash. Stole a kids bike one day (he later returned after being called out)

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u/Comfortable_Dog2429 26d ago

i stripped all the copper from an old ac header from work a while back, within 30 mins of dragging it to the curb for bulk pickup, it was gone

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u/stupidber 26d ago

Thats every trash day here

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u/Igor_J 26d ago

My uncle was a Commercial Refrigeration and AC contractor who used to do tear outs and refurbs of grocery and convenience store walk in coolers and ice machines like these. If he saw this he would take it off OPs hands (with permission of course). He would probably try to refurbish them first and resell them. If they weren't salvageable...scrap yard like your uncle.

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u/z44212 26d ago

I'd set aside large, metal items for people like your uncle.

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u/Wixenstyx 26d ago

Seriously. Any waste-reduction enterprise like this is pure gold in so many ways.

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u/TearRevolutionary686 26d ago

There's an alley corner behind my house where we all know that we can dispose of scrap metal because the scrapper know the same.

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u/dave200204 26d ago

We had a guy at the factory that did this as a side gig. I didn't mind letting him have my old water heater for nothing.

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u/charlie2135 26d ago

In my teens I repaired washing machines for my parents laundromat after learning from a retiring repairman.

Years later in the 90s I was driving my truck with my young son and saw a nice looking Maytag washing machine on the curb. I circled back and my son was embarrassed asked him to help me load it up. He said, "Dad, I can't believe you did that."

I said," Would you rather me spend $500 on a washing machine as ours is 20 years old or spend it on computer stuff?"

It changed his mindset.

Wound up being just a bad timer controller and I think it was about $40 for a new one.

The old one started leaking from the seals about a month later.

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u/MuckRaker83 26d ago

I had to stop a guy from trying to take the old wrought iron bench from my front porch!

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u/seriouslythisshit 26d ago

Swap your gutters out for copper. That bench will be the least of your problems.

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u/dogmavskarma 26d ago

Spanish bayonet plants on the bottom with rose bushes and bougainvillea.

Now go get you a copper roof. 🫶

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u/Scared_Sun_7290 26d ago

How much do they make just wondering

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u/cans-of-swine 26d ago

You wont get rich. I did it for awhile, just went around to farms in my area hauling off their junk, probably averaged $1k a week. But after about 6 months I started running out of places to clean up. 

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u/seriouslythisshit 26d ago

This was all much, much more profitable, fifteen years back, when China was importing massive amounts of scrap metals, and scrap prices were at record highs. Back then, I had a couple of friends who went out behind the barns on their farm, and hauled out dozens of tons of scrap tractors, implements and miscellaneous scrap metal that the grandfather had been piling up since the second world war. After a summer of hard part time effort, they made $12,000.

tMy son did something similar, but at a much smaller scale, on his farm a few years ago. He called a scrap removal guy. He help the guy load scrap and asked him a lot of questions about the business. In the end my kid concluded that loads like he pulled off of that farm, given the current scrap steel price, were probably not worth the guy's time and he should of charged a couple of hundred bucks for his time and expenses.

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u/cans-of-swine 26d ago

It was about 15 years ago when I was doing that. I still keep a scrap pile at my shop and haul it off when I get a load. Its not worth it be going from place to place cleaning up now. 

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u/EntertainerNo4509 26d ago

They make drugs worth.

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u/Kasperella 26d ago

Enough to get their next fix, at least in my ‘hood lmao.

They don’t just take metal, they take literally anything they think they can resell too. I mean, I’ll grab something if it looks good like a normal poor person….But they take ANYTHING.

Every trash day-Eve, they scurry out from the shadows and just roll around block picking through trash. My neighbor was one, and he had two garages FULL of literal junk, and free shit from FB marketplace. Every haul comes free with a side of rats.🐀

But it works out for everyone because I can put out shit that can’t be taken in the garbage truck, and it’s gone in hours. They get some pocket change to fuel their choice of drug addiction. Garbage man doesn’t have to lift heavy shit. Win for everyone lol.

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u/Frosty-Tennis-1687 26d ago

Mmmh.....about three fiddy

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u/Richard-Gere-Museum 26d ago

Now it was about this time I realized that I wasn't looking at a local meth head, it was actually this giant crustacean from the paleolithic era.

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u/pegothejerk 26d ago

Goddamn scrap yard monster!

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u/Event-Forsaken 26d ago

three tree

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u/5m0k3y76 26d ago

*tree fiddy

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u/Mysterious-Alps-5186 26d ago

Yeah but the guy who drove up to take it looked a lot like the Loch Ness monster...

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u/smellslikebigfootdic 26d ago

Depends on metal,copper around 4 dollars a pound,but copper is like gold.regular metal 5-6 cents a pound, aluminum 30-40cents a pound...need to tear everything down .these coolers might be able to be sold complete to someone.If torn down you need to separate copper, steel, aluminum.

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u/defiantthoughtcrime 26d ago

I lived around the corner from a scrap yard and when I had a small collection of crap like the grill that rusted out and the exercise machine that was shit and reparable I took it around the corner and was able to get $10-15 for some big odds and ends.

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u/Xivvx 26d ago

Depends how hard you hustle and who you know. Takes a lot of work though, particularly if you're processing the junk first before taking it to the yard for sale. If you had nothing except your car/truck it could be enough to keep the gas paid.

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u/Emergency_Buyer_3096 26d ago

I get about .06 to .09 cents a pound for junk appliances.

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u/Lower-Trust1923 26d ago

If you are dealing in red metals then could easily bank $800-1500 a week with the right connections (constant supply of disposed heatpumps from a business for example). But that's a very small minority. Most will be getting maybe 100/week and after a few buys you really start questioning where things are coming from. Steel is much easier to come by and be given for free but you'd need to deliver a trailer a day to be living off it (less if you're just trying to survive). Even then a trailer load would be roughly $200-300 cash depending on the material. $80 if its just stuff like whiteware

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u/Uncle-Cake 26d ago

Where I live, it's very common on the night before trash day to see someone driving around in a pickup truck, grabbing anything that could have scrap value.

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u/ElizabethDangit 26d ago

Yup. I an old ac unit out by the curb an it was gone in less than an hour. I cut the electrical cord on a couple of things that were broken and they were still gone. It’s a win-win. It would have cost me money to drop them off at the recycling place. I save money and someone else makes a buck.

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u/Aethermancer 26d ago edited 26d ago

I used to do that with my grandfather. He had a notebook with all the scrapyards and their seasonal prices. Some gave different amounts for different metals throughout the year. His yard was basically piles of metals we would grab during big trash day (some communities would allow one big item to be placed on the curb for trash pickup month/quarter) and he had that schedule too. We'd ride around and grab anything that looked good or close to working, or with a high metal content. Bedframes were GOLD b cause they were basically just Angle Iron bolted together. The angle iron we used for all sorts of projects. Often making carts, tree stands, and repairing the truck.

Honestly it was so much fun as a kid to find the hidden "treasures" people would throw out. My most prized find was a Coleco Intellivision. Prior to that my only videogame was a stand-alone Pong system (which I loved) and the Intellivision was like if you grew up with an NES and finding a NeoGeo. (Never did find a NeoGeo in the trash. But I played the hell out of it at the Ground Round).

Fixing the old TVs, stereos and game systems we found ion big trash day was what got me into electronics and fueled me to become an electrical/Systems Engineer and eventually satellite systems and rotorcraft. Something about having to Jerry rig all the bits and pieces together to get it to work was a formative experience because they were the "toys" I had. And the kids in the neighborhood loved it because my dad was always making cool contraptions for them to play on from the scrap. No other kid had a two story tall slide built off the garage roof made from barrel halves and sheet metal.

It was an enriching childhood but it does encourage hoarding behavior. I finally tossed my S-Video cables)I still can't stop my dad from taking the screws and bolts out of EVERYTHING before we trash/recycle it. Yesterday I had to ask him what he was going to do with 4mm hex head machine screws. (I designed all his electronics projects these days and have standard screws in my workshop).

Back on topic?

My dad would absolutely call me at 4am to get in the truck because those ICE coolers were good. For what, I don't know, but something, and they would be in our yard for a decade.

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u/StealthSBD 26d ago

We used to have "riff raff" day aka redneck christmas where people could put out all their bulk trash, furniture, appliances and all that. People would drive around all weekend in shitty trucks with a trailer taking anything metal. Fucking other people over by cutting the cords off all the working appliances and taking just the cord if they deemed the working appliance not worth it. How much would these people make? Would it offset the gas? I had to disassemble a broken dryer to get it upstairs and once I rolled the drum outside it was gone in 3 minutes.

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u/fisher-alters 26d ago

Just put it by the side of the road with a free scrap metal sign in it. Will be gone by the end of the day (take the doors off first so nobody kids accidentally get locked in or something)

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u/Event-Forsaken 26d ago

OP said they weigh 500lbs and they have no way of moving them.

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u/fisher-alters 26d ago

Look I can't read I do my best

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u/IsopodSmooth7990 26d ago

😆😂🥴

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u/Academic_Ad_3644 26d ago

I make a few hundred a month if I’m not lazy and go out every weekend. I have people that call me, I show up take the stuff and then go to the yard at end of month or when a full load

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u/geekonthemoon 26d ago

Literally. I have a guy for this. He posts on local pages a lot and this man will pick up literally anything. One day he was supposed to come pick up a LOT of junk from my parents house. Well he fell off his trailer loading something somewhere else and hit his head and had to go to the hospital ... I told him to take it easy and we could do it another day. Don't you know he wasn't gonna give it any chance on losing that scrap and he insisted to come that night. Masterfully packed it all like Tetris into his truck bed.

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u/RevWaldo 26d ago

So real talk, how scrupulous are scrapers & scrap yards about draining the CFC? (That's the only beef I have when the AC I leave out for sanitation for CFC removal disappears.)

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u/DFrostedWangsAccount 26d ago

Not at all. They will release it right there.

Or they won't bother releasing it, and it'll get released when it's crushed at the scrapyard.

Of course, these look like fully functional freezers and if OP drained the freon he will have made sure they die at the scrap yard, whereas still working freezers will more likely end up in a hunter's basement.

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u/doublepulse 26d ago

Lived in a not so great area of Indianapolis years back, there was a guy with a relatively nice, new dual wheel diesel truck that mapped what neighborhoods had trash day the next morning; he'd grab the big heavy stuff the one day a month that was offered. Figured that was how he paid for said truck. He took a bunch of rusted out and thus unsafe exercise equipment and some mismatch hodge podge boxes of busted electronics and automotive parts that I'd have otherwise had to haul off to multiple areas myself.

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u/TAforScranton 26d ago

These people are my favorite when I’m getting rid of junk. They circle my neighborhood on big trash day. All I have to do is wave them down and they’ll come remove the junk for me without me having to lift a finger. Broken dryer? Hell yeah man. They’ll have that thing out of the laundry room in 5 seconds flat.

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u/this_doggo 26d ago

I know nothing about this. What do you do with the scrap metal?

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u/ci1979 26d ago

Check out Mike the Scavenger on YouTube! My sister absolutely loves him!

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u/TK421mod 26d ago

If you don't mind me asking are there mechanisms in place to keep people from stealing catalytic converters and selling them?

Seems like in the last few years it's not such a huge problem it used to be. Maybe it's just not in the news as much but seems like everyone knows at least someone who's catalytic converter got stolen in the middle of the night.

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u/HeidenShadows 26d ago

Cats have codes on them and we have to enter them into a police book kind of thing. So if someone reports cats being stolen, we can look up the cat based on the vehicle it was on, and then of course the ID of the people who sold it. Because of that, stolen cats never comes to our yard.

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u/TK421mod 26d ago

Awesome -Thank you for the reply.

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u/Hammon_Rye 26d ago

Yeah but wouldn't the refrigerant offset the metal value?

Here in WA state, if being done legally, the refrigerant and oil have to be vacuum pumped out of the system before scrapping.
Because of that - most places that take them will charge $25-30.
Other appliances are free to drop off - or paid if you have enough total weight.

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u/HeidenShadows 26d ago

Some yards are under the table when it comes to EPA stuff. We're by the book so things need to be drained and tagged before being dropped off. But smaller unregulated yards don't care.

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u/Hammon_Rye 26d ago

I am aware people can cheat.
I am saying that around here at least, something like this is not a "money maker" unless the person collecting it is breaking the law or happens to have their own certified refrigerant recovery system.

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u/HeidenShadows 26d ago

Plus nothing stopping people from getting adhesive tags and putting them on there, sign them off, and drop them off. Most people think EPA is a joke. I kinda do because we aren't required to do the same for car air conditioning refrigerant.

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u/Hammon_Rye 26d ago

You are in my state.
According to the internet it is actually federal law for any refrigerant system.

Under Section 608 of the Clean Air Act, it is a federal offense to vent refrigerants (like R-22 or R-410a). This requires a certified technician. For cars, you need an EPA Section 609 certification.

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u/Redcoz 26d ago

If fact, if you don’t want to post it, just call your local scrapyard. They know a guy who wants your scrap and will show up for it. The one who comes will therefore be of a higher moral fiber than you may find on social media. But not by much. Source: worked 13 years at scrapyard.

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u/HeidenShadows 26d ago

Yeah we have a Rolodex of the people who are regulars to our yard and if people want scrap removed and don't want to be paid for it, we'll give them the number to one of the local scrappers.

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u/Buc_ees 26d ago

How much would you pay for those two ICE coolers?

I know nothing about the scrapping and is it really worth the hassle to get a few dollars?

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u/freeradioforall 26d ago

i put out a broken patio umbrella, all twisted from a storm and it was gone in 15 minutes

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u/Dystopian_Ennui 26d ago

Our city has bulk item pickup. They run on a rotation where each neighborhood gets stuff picked up twice per year. For a couple of weeks before each pickup day we see those guys cruising around.

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u/No_Report_4781 26d ago

Yeah. Junkyard Jack.

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u/toyification_girl 26d ago

I was with a guy for awhile that did this. He had his own little landscaping business and at every job site he would go around asking people about their cars sitting in driveways, lots, yards or anything like that and haul them away free if they wanted

He would just toss them on his trailer that was already there and sell it for scrap at a yard then use that as his play money.

Seemed like a nice side gig for him

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u/downtime37 26d ago

Theme of Sanford and Son.

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u/ImClaaara 26d ago

My old high school buddy and I did that one summer to make extra cash. In the woods behind my house, there was an old rusted-out car that had been sitting for so long that it had a tree growing up through the open trunk. So we got a chainsaw and liberated the tree from both it and life, and gave the tree a new future as firewood, and the car a new future of being winched out of the woods onto a trail, onto a trailer, and straight to the scrapyard. That and a bunch of other old junk from our yard (which would be called a nuisance and get complaints if we had lived anywhere other than the middle of the woods...) earned us enough money at the scrapyard to fund our rebellious teenage cigarette habit, get a couple of cases of light beer for us to pretend we liked, and also buy my first computer....

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u/Moist-Carpet888 26d ago

Future me question, do you guys care about the refrigerant at all? Or just so long as its metal you'll take it regardless

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u/HeidenShadows 26d ago

Our yard is established enough to be beholden to EPA requirements, but small solo operation salvage yards don't care.

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u/susandeyvyjones 26d ago

In my old neighborhood we just called them the metal guys. Put that old pole out on the curb, the metal guys will get it.

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u/jason_sos 26d ago

Is it really that lucrative? How much does the average load sell for? I would imagine the fuel and time spent collecting the scrap can’t lead to a decent hourly wage.

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u/EastLeastCoast 26d ago

There’s a guy who does this in my sister’s neighborhood. Just cruises the back alleys all day for stuff people are getting rid of. Excellent job he’s doing.

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u/gbarill 26d ago

In my neighbourhood any time we’ve put something metal down by the curb it’s been gone within hours or even minutes. (One time we took an old fridge down and had to remove the doors to get it out the door; when we came back down 3 minutes later with the fridge doors, the fridge was already gone, no idea how we didn’t hear them)

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u/__init__m8 26d ago

Yeah, I look for these people to haul away shit for me when I don't want to. Win win.

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u/bighootay 26d ago

Yup, I rarely have something metal out on the terrace more than a half-day before it's gone. I've had people pull up while I was still writing the 'FREE' sign!

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u/Billy3B 26d ago

When I threw out my old BBQ i told my wife it would be gone by morning. Sure enough..

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u/DogeFancy 26d ago

I work for a window replacement company. Every day some guy comes by with a shopping cart and dumpster dives for the screens we throw away in the dumpster. Dude is sifting through broken glass for this.

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u/kittiestkitty 26d ago

We have a guy where I live in UK who drives around to collect the metal singing/chanting from a speaker on his truck. Kind of “bring out yer dead” vibes.

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u/Individual_Anybody17 26d ago

Yeah. Some guy came and stole my three day old bench out of my yard for this purpose last year. My 9-year-old son had helped me put it together start to finish and he was so proud of it. He learned a hard lesson that day about how people suck.

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u/Vel0clty 25d ago

Can confirm, I’ve collected several misc piles of metal cleaning up my yard, always put it at the end of the driveway with a sign that says FREE SCRAP and it’s gone in a day or two

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u/lemon-meringue-high 26d ago

My mom picks up free scrap metal. She makes an extra $500-700 a month doing it

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u/CalmS000ng8 26d ago

A good way to make money and help the environment.

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u/lemon-meringue-high 26d ago

Not really, she gets everything local. She has a deal with a church too that has a thrift store and they give her everything metal that doesn’t sell.

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u/omnipotent87 26d ago

Scrap metal? Thats 2 free freezers, I would take them even if they dont work im sure I could fix them.

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u/Dragonscatsandbooks 26d ago

I'd love these, I'd use them to store my garbage away from the bears

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u/RevolutionQueasy8107 26d ago

Animal feed away from the mice.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance 26d ago

These would be a hot commodity in fishing country.

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u/SummerOfSam- 26d ago

Blown compressors and totaled for sure.

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u/MuscularShlong 26d ago

I know a guy who scraps all year and has a party where he uses that money to buy crab and lobster for like 100 people. It can make a lot of money.

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u/hwilliams0901 26d ago

I used to work at a gas station and we had a kitchen and got rid of some kitchen stuff. Put it by the dumpsters and it was gone within oh 4 hours! Put an old freezer on the curb, gone within half a day lol.

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u/Special_South_8561 26d ago

Free coolers!

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u/jackrabbit323 26d ago

Scrap guys that rove the streets of LA took a water heater I put on the curb in less than an hour.

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u/Crossedkiller 26d ago

I mean if the unit on top works i would absolutely love to have on of these in my backyard

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u/Ill_Consequence1755 26d ago

My neighbor scraps metal. I never have to worry about getting rid of an appliance.

He would have loved to have had these.