Thread: It used to be beer strikes. Now pallets for Christmas!

some places I've worked , where they pallatise , have always had problems with pallet numbers , to the effect that they often have a guy outside repairing pallets

other places I've worked are embarrassed by the numbers of accumulating pallets....

Originally Posted by W&KO

We have some steel in a shipping container, not your run of the mill stuff but either we paid extra for express delivery ....

This is kind'a what I do now.
The Loscam run was tedious.
But I run scrap steel from a couple of recycle places to the local still foundry.

At a guess, I reckon about 20-30 20foot containers per day from both the recycle places go out of shredded scrap.
Where too, anyone's guess .. I'm thinking China on the whole, but could also be interstate too.

But even the mill sends out shredded scrap in containers.
Our company(one of many contractors) must deliver possibly 1500-1700 tons per day to the mill, but the mill themselves also shred their own scrap and send it out in containers too.

In the close too 12 months that I've been working for the company now, doing Loscams, rubbish and metal .. the biggest change I've noted has been the contanerisation of scrap steel.
Virtually none 12 months ago, and hardly a container to be seen at any of the 3 metal sites(2 recyling places and the mill itself).
Now it's hard to get singles and doubles around the yards due to so many containers stored at each site.

if there really is a container shortage, it seems that the main reason is the stockpile in the Laverton area west of Melbourne!

as a side note: today we had the huge winds(mainly the gusts were the issue) so we were sent messages not to tip in dangerous conditions. Once the go ahead was given to load up and tip off, at one of the recylcing places, there's so precious little room for containers they just plonk them anywhere. Two containers places precariously about a meter or two where our tippers get loaded with the shredded stuff. The ground so uneven, both (stacked) containers rocking approximately half a meter in the wind.
We were takiing bets as to how long before the pair of containers would fall over. Didn't happen tho.
But brings home the point ... so many containers getting hoarded at these metal recycling places awaiting to get filled with clean shredded metal.