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John_PA
03-08-2008 12:52:17
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Re: What Are Junkyards Paying For Old Combines In Your Area? in reply to 1206SWMO, 03-08-2008 09:44:41
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tires are $15 a piece for fronts, rear are $2 a piece.
The gas tank has to be removed from the machine.
They prefer that cab glass to smashed out or removed, same with mirrors.
It takes approximately 30 seconds for them to remove the cab, engine, and separator body from the main frame and transmission. The engine and main chassis goes into a mixed steel pile, and the separator, cab, bin, and heads go into the tin pile. They do it in less than 3 minutes with a lebierr "scrap master" with a clam bucket. They have a steel I-beam that they lift up with the clam bucket, and slam it down a few times on the combine. They can turn a Gleaner G into a tin can that is 4 feet tall. Some of their scrap piles are 80-90 feet high. It's wild to see an Allis Chalmers WD flipped upside down and piled 60 feet up in an unrecognizable pile of junk. (I've seen quite a few like that) Even saw a John Deere A on steel wheels which looked like it was salvagable, crushed to bits. That dumb dumb could have sold the junk JD in the classifieds for $2500 as a "Restoration project"
Of course, I take them to Neville Island, PA, which is an island on the ohio river, about 5 miles downstream from Pittsburgh, PA. They pay top dollar, as they process and sell directly to mills.
at last check, Iron is up to $11 / hundred lb. Tin is $9.50 / hundred lb. mixed steel/iron is $7.50 / hundred lb.
that is for unprepared metal. I don't know what prepared metal is selling fr, but I took some prepared aluminum in, and I got $76.00 / hundred lb.
So the prices are very high right now.
The expensive part is hauling the combines down there. You can't use a tow dolly. The ohio river valley is quite a drop in elevation from here. Not to mention, traffic is a nightmare, and not accustomed to "rural" travel.
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