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  1. Considered the idea of putting some simple plywood down over the ground once it's cleaned. But I have about a half mile of firing line that would take a LOT of labor to make it to code and it is a leased operation through a government entity, so its a big pain in the ass to get any improvements to the facilities done and I can't close up shop on regular business days. What I have done to remove rock smaller than 1/4 inch is put 5 gallons at a time on a large screen and shake the screen while puring water over it all. Got rid of sand and the very fine rock as well as made the job cleaner, but that another step. Perhaps a trommel would be more appropriate for that side of things. If I could run in all through a trommel in hours instead of the days of work removing the sand would require that may be worth the investment in itself. Something that I could run it through to remove all of the steel would make life considerably easier as well. I was hoping the primers from rifle cartridges would be made of something a magnet could pick up, but they are brass as well...
  2. I've hired kids. If you pay them by the hour they get bored and screw around instead of sorting. If I pay them a percentage they do a poor job trying to get out easy and the material gets turned away at the scrapyard. Yard used to let me dump all my material in their bins alone, material kids sorted was still so rocky they now pour buckets out slowly while they inspect. I've had various offers from people offering to sort it for 50% of the profit. But that's a lot of money and I'd then have to hope they are honest. It may come to that but if a sharper mind than my own can keep me in the drivers seat, I'd rather be there. My welder also suggested a trommel. Not sure what the results would be as the shells are various sizes as is the rock. Not sure it's worth the investment. The long term plan is to concrete the ground below to eliminate the rock.
  3. There's no price difference. They will melt it themselves regardless of what I do. And yes, any bullet still live will go off. And there is so much it's near impossible to spot them all. Good thought. Hadnt considered that. Maybe a part of a process.
  4. I operate a rifle range, have for about 20 years, and until about a year ago we would leave the brass casing from the ammo on the ground or piling it. I have tens of thousands of pounds of brass, aluminum, and steel casings piled up now. So we decided it was time to begin sorting it, and taking it to the scrap yard, yielding about a dollar a pound for the brass, which 80% of it is. So it has to be sorted out before they will take it. We have been shoveling the brass into 5 gallon buckets, pouring it on a sorting table, running a magnet through it to remove anything magnetic, removing all rocks (amount of rock ranges from 25% to 0%) by hand, and removing all aluminum by hand; leaving us with buckets of rock, buckets of aluminum, buckets of steel, and sweet, sweet buckets of brass. The 0% rock buckets of brass I can sort 50 pounds in about 30 minutes. But the rockier stuff can take an hour or two for the same weight, and I simply don't have time, and despite the awesome pay, I'd rather never sort another bucket of brass again in my life. Its a terrible, mind numbing, depressing task. Wondering if there is a way to throw it all in something that can hold 500 pounds of the mixed product, and separate it all for me using heat. If you haven't already figured this out, I know nothing about this kind of thing other than different metals have different melting points and that what I am asking for is NOT easy if not impossible. Is there a way?
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