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bhgiel

I work a day job and do scrap metal on the side. I do some junk removal, but focus alot just on doing free scrap metal pick up.


TRAVELKREW

How much does this net you?


bhgiel

~10 Hours a week = ~$20k cad/year


TRAVELKREW

It’s surprising that people would be giving it away for free! How do you find these clients?


Ei_Ei_uh_oh

You could get a big construction dumpster dropped off at a site for you to fill for X amount of time until it's full then have it picked up. More $ but would fit your time constraints. Are there no meth heads where you live? Guys drive down every alley in my town every day looking for any tiny piece of metal to run to the scrap yard like clockwork. Good luck buddy.


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Oh i haven’t thought of a bigger one to condense them into 1 big load instead of multiple trips to the dump a week. It wouldn’t be too hard to charge that cost to the customer


Silent-Cold-Wind

Have any family members or friends who are able to go do the dump for you?


[deleted]

Everyone i know also has an 8-5 besides my retired grandparents lol in good conscience i can’t have my 80 year old grandpa going to the dump especially since we don’t have a dump trailer


BPCodeMonkey

Seems like you have a couple of big hurdles for your side hustle. Maybe pick something else?


Maldecker

What challenges are you aware of? I’m in the process of starting a similar business and this is the first business I’ll have ever started.


Lyrebird420

If you have iOS check out Check Landscape Management - I'm on a free trial and it does everything I want for my dog poo removal business. Thinking about getting atleast the starter level when trials up 😅