I HATE Scrappers and "Haul Away" from big box stores. I think all of us do.

[potatochips]

Personally myself I am thinking about downsizing and just maintaining a small working collection. Use it for a year and sell it, find something else, do the same thing. 

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Well at least you can make a contract with somebody, over here in Europe- Italy is much more difficult.
Many of my recent machines came from a scrapyard or better say "city dump" or how they call it, ecologic-isle.
Basically up until one year ago I could just go with my truck to the city dump and load in a hurry machines that I liked and needed to be saved, and the dump employees would just pretend not to see.. but now things are much more difficult because of new rulings.
They in fact need to register whatever appliance enter the dump and fill a document as soon as it enters the dump, and it becomes a waste according to law.
So now they did put gates to enter the dump that opens thanks to a magnetic card they re-new every year and give you if you show them you have paid city taxes for the garbage care.
The fact is that the same is for shops, doesn't matter big box or family owned, as soon as they deliver the new appliance and withdraw the old one one they need to fill a form and it becomes a waste that will need to be treated as such, and when they go to the dump they pass this waste along.
If they are caught transporting a washer or whatever appliance without this document they get in trouble.

I actually went to speak with the dump manager explaining to him of my passion and trying to see if they would allow me to take washers or pieces, but no, he said that t
now the only way I could do that is to have a licence to treat waste so they can invoice me even for free but they need to make an invoice to me because they need to fill documents for whatever enters in the dump and goes out, they just cannot get rid of waste like that or they get in trouble for improper waste disposal! Because city dump actually is a company itself.
So guys this is the law! Yet they keep telling about ecology etc! Ha! they prefer a machine to get scrapped rather than saved, you cannot even take pieces from it and save another one.
Truth be told 80% of what you see in the dumps actually is just two or three years old nowadays and rarely machines 15-20 years or older.
Of course due to the fact that appliances today are just garbage themselves as you buy them new, but also many just ends there because of today's tendency of using liquid detergents and quick Cycles and low temperatures that build-up thick gunk layers of in the outer tub that rotten spiders that crumbles due to acidic fermentation YES FERMENTING WASHERS! The even more sad part of the story is that many Modern machines doesn't have on purpose a outer tub you can open in order to change the spider, seal or bearing but you have to buy the whole block outer tub spider and basket, that cost as much as a new one! Ha the ecology!

 

[kenmoreguy89]

I am in many Facebook Groups about laundry
And every day comes out a gal asking for help, typical complaint is:
" help why my washer stinks" or " how do I get my laundry to smell good because it doesn't it stinks".
To be blamed of course it's always and only how you use your machine and how you do laundry.
Typical housekeeper's laundry today means tossing whatever color in, put a pod or a cup of liquid, add a colour catcher sheet ( because nobody got time to divide colours- they have the sheets now God forgive!) choose a quick cycle Mix-30° or equivalent are the favourite and when very dirty of course an eco with reduced temps, they don't smell good? No problem! Just add a gallon of softener (which greasy components enhance the gunk build up in the machine) and if you really wanna make things great also use like a bucket of unstoppables or those new scent boosters (made and created just for that) and you are done, your laundry will smell good!!!

And in a couple years :
"Help my washer basket fell down doesn't turn" rotten crumbled spider...or "help my washer sounds like a jet during spin" ie: rotten seal, rotten and gone bearings!

 

[goatfarmer]

I could always sell newer machines, like you say, depending on what it is, for much more. I used to sell the cr@p out of GE FF's to landlords. They were dependable, for the most part, easy to repair, they loved' em. Those are the ones that I would get $100.00 for the set. Those and Maytags are pretty much the only vintage machines I would sell to the general public.

 

 I have it pretty good WRT haulaways. I have to drive an hour each way, but I can buy 12-15 machines (fridges, laundry, ranges) from a dealer, who sells me what they don't go through themselves. He charges me $40.00 for a load. Usually half of them are worth fixing. Some give up parts for others, many just go on the truck to the scrapyard.