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Scrap Metal Prices

Postby Stanton » Wed Nov 04, 2015 3:30 pm

Took a load of steel to the recycle place near me. Thought about just throwing the stuff away, but was trying to be responsible :lol:. Pick up truck bed, not quite full.

After weigh in and unloading, walking into the office with ticket in hand, I thought, "Maybe I'll get $5 out of all this."

Sign on the wall stated: "$30 / ton steel, $0.015 / lb steel".

She handed me four $1 bills... Hardly worth being responsible for. :?
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Re: Scrap Metal Prices

Postby ricky racer » Wed Nov 04, 2015 4:00 pm

I just hauled an old washing machine in and got $6.35. Not much but it will put nearly 3 gallons of gas in the Cub. :wink:
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Re: Scrap Metal Prices

Postby Barnyard » Wed Nov 04, 2015 4:01 pm

$60 a ton here. A far cry from $200 a ton this time last year. Trailer has been loaded since we started on the new barn in January. I hope I don't need it soon.
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Re: Scrap Metal Prices

Postby Eugene » Wed Nov 04, 2015 8:53 pm

I use to take small pieces of scrap metal and throw them into a neighbors pickup just to get rid of them. His pickup has been empty for some time. Few years back he came to the acreage and helped clean out ditches for the scrap metal.

I currently throw unusable scrap metal into the garbage. I think the trash reception center sorts out metal, glass, aluminum, etc..

I have several hundred pounds of cast and scrap iron I should get rid of. But, for the selling price, it's a money looser just to haul it to a scrap dealer. And the local guys who use to pick up scrap metal, or clean properties for the scrap metal, are no longer in business.

I have a couple of concrete pads on the acreage. I think I will just put the junk metal on the pads and wait for the price to rise.

After thought. Several years back, son replaced his hot water heater. He was going to pay to have it hauled to the garbage collection point. I took the hot water heater and sat it next to the street. Few minutes later a couple of guys stopped by and asked if they could have the hot water heater.

Another after thought. Son has hail damage to his house's roof. Replaced the roof with metal. The roofing crew said that they would haul off the scrap roofing metal for $100-. Told the son to refuse. Called up my neighbor. Took about 15 minutes for son, I, and neighbor, to load up the scrap metal into neighbors trailer. I think the neighbor said that he got $150- for the metal.
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Re: Scrap Metal Prices

Postby Stanton » Thu Nov 05, 2015 7:23 am

On the up side, it keeps scrappers away from farm auctions so I don't bid against them. :D
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Postby Tezell » Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:42 pm

.015 here in Georgia also.

My Dad asked me the other day if I thought he should put is 193 plow and his disk in the barn and lock it up. I told him with scrap a penny an a half a pound you could probably park it beside the road and it would be safe. :D
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Postby Bob McCarty » Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:57 pm

When I was in grade school, Coors started paying $.01 per can to encourage recycling of aluminum. A buddy of mine and I would ride our bikes about 7 miles from Longmont to Lyons and pick up the beer cans and glass pop bottles along the way. In Lyons we'd turn them in and buy a cold pop and ice cream cone before the ride home. Wasn't life simpler back then.

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Postby danovercash » Thu Nov 05, 2015 7:10 pm

Scrap is down ($5 per hundred) and fuel shot up ten or fifteen cents. Scrappers have picked everybody clean here.
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Postby OliverFarmall » Thu Nov 05, 2015 8:49 pm

Stanton wrote:On the up side, it keeps scrappers away from farm auctions so I don't bid against them. :D

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Re: Scrap Metal Prices

Postby SONNY » Fri Nov 06, 2015 2:21 am

I take mine to the landfill and dump it!---china don't get it that way! thanks; sonny

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Re: Scrap Metal Prices

Postby Eugene » Sun Nov 22, 2015 6:47 pm

I'm cleaning out my basement shop and old storage shed/old hog barn.

Today, talked to neighbor who use to pick up scrap metal. Asked if he was still in business. He said yes and no. He would only pick up metal if it was near by and only in preparation for a previously planned trip to Jefferson City, the location of the scrap metal buyer.

Didn't ask, but I think he takes the scrap metal to the buyer to off set some of his fuel expenses. At $30- a ton there is no profit in hauling scrap metal 25 to 30 miles one way.
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Re: Scrap Metal Prices

Postby Don McCombs » Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:47 pm

Here are our current local prices.

http://doublemrecycling.com/cash-for-scrap/
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Re: Scrap Metal Prices

Postby Eugene » Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:39 pm

Well now this is a kick in the fanny. Spoke with the neighbor who use to haul scrap metal. The local scrap metal dealer closed down.

Thinking I will just place the scrap metal on one of the acreage's concrete pads. I would rather do that then throw it in a ditch. Already cleaned most of the scrap metal from the acreage ditches.

Just don't know what to do with the scrap metal. Most pieces are to large to put in the trash.
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Re: Scrap Metal Prices

Postby Rob in NH » Tue Dec 01, 2015 9:48 pm

i got rid of about 225 pounds of sheet metal today, i collected $2.20 . under 200 pounds and you don't get anything for it.
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