Thinning the herd a little

super99

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• Jan 2, 2012

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I've been getting rid of some of the old MF heads that have sat around for 9 or 10 years. My neighbor came after Christmas and hauled 2 loads for me. Got rid of 2 13' grain heads and leftovers from 2 cornheads. Local steel mill was closed for the holidays, so he hauled them to a local scrap yard. I got $568 for the 2 loads. I paid $30 each for the heads 9 years ago. Wish I had bought every old head I could find then, made a good return on my investment. 2 more grain heads and 1 cornhead, and 2 1/2 combines to go. Chris

 

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Nebraska Cowman

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• Jan 2, 2012

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That's what I'm doing too. Anything that ain't being used is in danger of hell fire

 

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Ken Macfarlane

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• Jan 2, 2012

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Must be because you're close to a mill. I think they are at about 25$/ton for farm equipment here. Sheet metal is even less. Can't pay the fuel to haul it for that.

 

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jim johnson

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• Jan 2, 2012

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Ken where do you live? I know people that will give you a whole lot more.

Jim

 

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4020deereboy

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• Jan 2, 2012

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150 a ton here to gota couple more loads to go

 

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tomNE

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• Jan 2, 2012

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$180 per ton locally, even more in lincoln and omaha!

 

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Ken Macfarlane

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• Jan 2, 2012

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I'm in NB Canada, we don't have any rail terminals nearby, everything has to go by truck 5-10 hours to a proper yard depending where its going. They are trying to open a yard and metal shredder at the local port (1 hr away) but all the residents are complaining about a powerline needed to run the unit.

The local yards will drop a roll off container at your property for "free" if you fill it with steel, or you can dump steel at the landfill for "free" in their steel pile as long as there is no fridges.

 

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RodinNS

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• Jan 2, 2012

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I think it's just because Tri want's a little more for themselves... We're even further away from a mill and they're paying 90/ton here for unprepared scrap.

Rod

 

jm.

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Location

Dover TN

• Jan 2, 2012

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I guess it is just the mid west thing or distance from mill. ZClean iron not processed like those old heads I can get $ 240.00 a ton here in West Tenn. Has been as high as $ 300.00 a ton in the last 6 months.

 

jm.

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Location

Dover TN

• Jan 2, 2012

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Five hours trucking would be 250 miles. They are making good money trucking IF they can get scrap free. figure a semi hauls 25 ton. If at the end of the trip they could just get a $100 A ton looks like good trucking to me. I would say things will change there before long. Someone will figure it out. If I were you I would get all that free scrap I could find.

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Jan 2, 2012

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Email me if you have a 410, 510 or 610 combine to junk- need an easily removed plastic part, will pay 30 bucks. mmittge at compprime dot com.

 

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GeneMO

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Location

Pilot Grove, Mo.

• Jan 2, 2012

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And to think that somebody was really proud of that old iron once upon a time when it was new.

Gene

 

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rrlund

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• Jan 2, 2012

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I've got a head off of a New Idea Uni that I need to get rid of. It's got a tree growing up through it that needs to be cut,or I"ll have to torch the reel. Need to take the torch down there anyway to cut up some other stuff. Guess that junk's money in the bank if I leave it right there for now.

 

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JDNewbie

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• Jan 2, 2012

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I helped my Dad haul off two loads of scrap. They were paying $210/ton. Made over $600 on two loads. Like he said, "Wish I could do that everyday!".

 

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Harold Hubbard

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• Jan 2, 2012

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Last spring I bought an older Ford transport disk. I was afraid to tow it, because of its condition, and none of my friends were stupid enough to haul it without a wide load permit. So, I gritted my teeth and called a local excavation company and asked for a price. $$$$$$$KA_CHING!!! Full size equipment trailer and ten wheel dump to haul it, almost what I paid for the machine.

OK, but park the trailer at the farm the night before. When they pulled out the next morning, there were two old balers and a bunch of other stuff on the trailer. They made a five mile side trip to the scrap yard, who paid for the trip with a little left over.

 

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MIKE FRENCH

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• Jan 2, 2012

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Chris, I could use the steering hand pumps out of those massey combines, email me, thanks Mike

 

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Ken Macfarlane

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• Jan 2, 2012

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You're doing well Rod at that.

I took a steel drum of junk nails and bolts and offcuts in with some and the yard didn't want it for free, had to leave it at the dump. I've got probably 1-2 tons of barbed wire no one wants to take, aparently jams up the shredder. Don't know why they can't bale it?

Neighbour took a trailer load in, I think it scaled at 680 lbs or so. Got almost nothing for the steel, paid his gas with the lead and aluminum he had in the truck bed.

 

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Ken Macfarlane

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• Jan 2, 2012

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I'm not sure they are so far off on their price, they've got 2 hours of driving dropping and picking up a roll-off. So there is nearly 200$ for driver and truck fuel wear etc. There is the cost of a 2 or 3 ton roll off dumpster that sits there, they have 30 or 40 of them on rotation. They unload it and sort at the yard, maybe 0.25 hr. It then sits for 1-6 months between visits from the various shredders and crushers that visit the yard. They pay him, then it get loaded on a truck for a 5 hr one way trip. Not sure what they can backhaul on a scrap steel trailer.

You won't see me lining up to get free scrap.

I've got 3 junk cars on my place, but the best I can get is 300$ for all of them as scrap. 2 of them run, drive and have new tires even! Yard told me if I take the alumium wheels, aluminum transmission or starter/alt components off they will deduct off the price too.

 

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RodinNS

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• Jan 2, 2012

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It was that way here years ago when the fricken plant was still running, 1 mile from the yard. I think it mostly depends on what contract they have to fill at the time and how desperate they are for metal. Sounds like they're not too hard up in your area.

Rod