On 11/17/10 9:26 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:26:14 -0500, Gene
wrote:

Wow. 800 hp. to shred a filing cabinet. or bowling pins. Notice the
Beemer didnt' go down without a fight.

LOL!

I can't, just CAN'T believe that is economically feasible. A day and a
half at what, $200+/hr? $2400 for that measly pile of rubble?

I was wondering about that myself. I've known people however who made
quite a good living in the scrap metal business however. I think it
depends on how much non-ferrous you can extract out.

PS, Did you get the drawings and do they look OK to you?



My late former father-in-law (from marriage #1) and his brother did
very, very, very well in the scrap metal business in the midwest from
the end of WW II through their deaths. While the bulk of the business
was in scrap steel, the big money was in aluminum, copper, brass.

For many years, they made a bundle by getting permission to park their
dumpsters at stamping plants and other facilities where scrap metal was
produced. They left the dumpsters there "for free," and the companies
used them to get rid of what they didn't want. This was before recycling
at the manufacturing level came into vogue.

"Sure, we'll take those 40 tons of scrap aluminum away...no charge to
you..." :)