Scrap prices

Geo-TH,In · Oct 27, 2015

Cleaned up yesterday, took a small load to recycler. $30 a ton for tin, $60 for iron. 'recycler business was very slow. I plan to put my scrap on pallets and wait for prices to rebound.

RLA · Oct 27, 2015

Just last nite I organized my scrap piles because it hasn't been worth hauling.
I've walked around some sheet metal all summer waiting for the price to climb.
One big item was a Ford Pickup box I removed from a wagon frame that once hauled
fire wood. An EYE sore to me, that is now blocked up & full of sheet aluminum. &
another metal frame work is braced up for the steel, & some plastic 55 gallon
drums for the copper, I guess it's neater but it's still junk & out of sight to me.

Dean · Oct 27, 2015

You may be waiting awhile.

I expect things to get worse before getting better.

Dean

gtractorfan · Oct 27, 2015

Yes, I posted a couple weeks ago, I was to a metal recycling place and asked what they're paying--- 1/7th of what it was a year ago.

IA Roy · Oct 27, 2015

Yesterday I got rid of a dead Chevy Lumina for $40 in Fort Dodge 90 miles from home. After seeing the place, I probably chose the wrong yard. I picked the yard due to the proximity of the dead car off of the internet. I had made the decision not knowing what the price would be as it died on Saturday. I could have probably fixed it for about $200 if I would have followed my first instinct. In the week before Christmas last year I got $200 for a Ford Escort and they took off the tires and battery for me to take home.

Badger bob · Oct 27, 2015

Roy if its the place past the land fill there not to bad to deal with. if its the place in the old rendering plant you got cheeted. Bob

J.Wondergem · Oct 27, 2015

I had to get a refrigerator and a dryer out of the basement today, and got $6.40. LOL

IA Roy · Oct 27, 2015

The place on Gypsum Hollow Road south end of town. I never saw the landfill, unless I thought it was a gypsum mine. Otherwise just my normal level of observation.
2 young guys in there and the cigarette smoke so thick it thought I was going to have to cut it with a knife!

I got $65 per ton for tin and wire in Marshalltown in July. When unloading, the chain binder snapped over and drove my wrist into a rusty sheet metal flange. My share of the emergency room cost 10 times what the tin brought me. I decided that, that hobby is too expensive for me.

504 · Oct 27, 2015

I had some mixed junk that had to either go to the ditch or the scrape yard last week. $40.00 a ton and the owner said he thought it was going to $20.00 and not come back up for at least a year. I did get $80.00 for 200# of painted aluminum sheet.

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