What to do with small remnants

[Hard Rock Nelson]

I have a massive pile of remnants too small to use on vanities or really anywhere in a house. What does everyone do with these left overs other than throw them in the trash? Is there a way to make money on them?

[mikedean]

If you find the answer to your question, there is hundreds more people here waiting to hear it.

[DavidL]

Big pile out back. Waiting for a contractor who needs free clean fill.

[azstoneconsulting]

There IS a system coming that will address that question at multiple levels - Read about it in the December 2010 Issue of the Slippery Rock Gazette...

You will want to check it out - it's called The SRS Network and it will benefit Fabrication Shops (all over North America) Shops of all sizes - that have scrap pieces of all sizes accumulating as scrap will be able to create a revenue stream that until now has not been tapped.

The SRS Network will provide a way for individual Fabricators to recoup their investment that's currently sitting out in their individual yards in the form of SCRAP... as well as providing a whole new way of using those sink cut outs and small chunks of Natural, Engineered, and "GREEN" stone slab products - that can cost upwards of $400 dollars a month to haul away to a landfill.....

Stay tuned - more info coming shortly on SRS Network

[Tynan]

I have a customer who makes cutting boards out of his scrap...anyone with a nice piece of Blue Bahia is welcome to make me a 12" x 18" cutting board for my mother in law...she absolutely loves that stone !!

[tdrobotics]

I have seen guys making money on the scraps for cutting boards, desert prep, pizza stones, granite pavers, light switch covers.. etc.. pretty cool stuff for something that is just sitting around in most shops.

The SRS Network sounds interesting..

[Alex DiPietro]

IMO the time consumed fabricating small pieces like mentioned above is far to costly (lost time not working on something making real money).

[Carmine Pantano]

IMO the time consumed fabricating small pieces like mentioned above is far to costly (lost time not working on something making real money).

I have to agree. It's one thing if you have nothing else to do and you have a marketplace to sell small items.

I'm curious what the SRS Network is, come on Dec. Issue of Slippery Rock!!

[dan k.]

I am pretty sure I would lose money if I tried to fabricate and sell scraps. The only guys I see selling scraps are shop workers who sell them on Craigslist. My scraps are free for anyone that feels they can make money on them

[azstoneconsulting]

Dan -

I am pretty sure you will probably not want to give away your scrap after you hear about the SRS-Network....

my .02 cents worth....

kevin

[Igneous]

on pins and needles awaiting big reveal of use for small remnants...

[GuyboR]

Dan -

I am pretty sure you will probably not want to give away your scrap after you hear about the SRS-Network....

my .02 cents worth....

kevin

I'm going to guess it's similar to this network.
http://www.thestonebroker.com/

[Mark Meriaux]

I'm curious what the SRS Network is, come on Dec. Issue of Slippery Rock!!

I would guess some sort of online remnant "clearinghouse" like one of these:
http://www.buysellremnants.com/
http://buythebundle.web.officelive.com/default.aspx
http://www.stonelocator.com/
http://www.stonetrash2.com/

I had a couple others bookmarked too.........they are no longer alive on the web. Not a strong business model. The value of the goods to be traded is nearly outweighed by the transport costs to deliver them long distances. On a local scale, this scenario could be workable. We'll see if SRS has any new earth-shattering concepts.

[Stonecuttter]

Check your local or regional classifieds, and find some poor S.O.B. who was laid-off when the economy tanked, but who loved stone so much he bought his own tooling and tried to stay in the trade till he could get re-employed...... Call him and offer it to him for a dime a pound or something.

[Aaron Crowley]

I know this is an old post and probably long since forgotten, but I wanted to let you all know about Remnant Locator

Remnant Locator makes is easy to find a rem to finish a job without posting, listing, or updating a remnant inventory.

We've run it here in Portland for 5+ years and its awesome!

All you do is sign up for Free registration to receive remnant requests from other fabricators in your city/area.

When you need a remnant, just log in, enter the details of the rem you need, then hit submit.

Remnant Locator automatically creates an email that it sent to every other fabricator on the network.

If another fabricator has the rem, they contact the submitter, if not they delete the email and forget about it.

Check it out here:

www.RemnantLocator.com

and here:

https://fabricatorsfriend.com/Remnant-Locator-Intro

[Nick]

We get it




So happy this thread was brought back though, Sam that picture rules bro

[B.Baltzegar]

If the stone is not big enough for a vanity, it will go in the stone dumpster at our shop. Space and handling is costly.
The only exception for us are white marbles. I keep a stash off untagged odd pcs. There seems to be a constant call for seats, shelves, etc. from Carrara and other types.


I am always amazed at the way the cheap labor countries will go to great lengths to build little pcs into a 3cm furniture top.
Best article I can remember from StoneWorld was a comparison between a chinese production shop and an American one. The Chinese shop had a whole bunch of radial arm bowl cutters and just lots of cheap workers.
American company was jammed with high tech cnc waterjet whatever. I wonder which model was more profitable?

[Chris Mills]

We stack 'em on pallets and use them for seats, saddles, etc. After a while we will dump a few to keep some room. People like the idea of having a custom granite saddle instead of a cookie cutter white marble many times. Don't get me wrong, we sell a lot of carrera saddles too.

[RBatstone]

I have found the most profitable way of getting rid of scrap is to put a cubic meter bag next to the saw and get my sawman to through the scraps in it. Once I have 10 bags I put it on gumtree ( similar to your Craigslist). I post it as give away. The bags usually way about 800kgs. So when people come to pick it up, I ask them how they are going to load it and they ask if I can load it with my forklift. I say sure 1 carton of beer per bag. It has worked great I save on dumping fees and get free beer

[dustinbraudway]

aWESOME!

[wadeegnor]

Have you considered crushing the material and either selling it or giving it to landscaping companies?

[luke getz]

granite does not seem like the ideal material for saddles...i would think the horse would object....

[clhilde]

[ash20ash]

Anything smaller than 26x40 goes into the dumpster. Only handle it once.

[Rick George]

Same as Ash on this one.