scrap's up

fred goodrich · Jan 15, 2021

Cleaning out the yard.

DRussell · Jan 15, 2021

Priced just dropped to eight cents a pound here. Was at ten last week. Scrap yards are getting slammed.

Russ from MN · Jan 15, 2021

What is anyone getting for aluminum cans? I didn't sell any last summer because they weren't worth anything.

JMOR · Jan 15, 2021

(quoted from post at 13:13:25 01/15/21) What is anyone getting for aluminum cans? I didn't sell any last summer because they weren't worth anything.

hat about old lead acid batteries? I don't think there are any lead smelters remaining in America. How to get rid of and can I get any $ for them?

jimg.allentown · Jan 15, 2021

Here in southeastern PA, East Penn Manufacturing (Deka batteries) buys old batteries. Not sure what they are paying
these days, but they do pay something.

There was a used battery smelting plant in Reading, Pa at the Exide battery factory, but I know that for a time
they were closed. I don't know if they ever re-opened.

deeretails · Jan 15, 2021

NAPA is happy to take my batteries, and give me credit.

CH(upstate,NY) · Jan 15, 2021

Spent a lot of time in Reading designing their automated charge control system. It was Prestolite Battery then.

TGP · Jan 15, 2021

Cut and Moved 15,000 ton in the last 3 weeks cleaning up
Dad's old yard.
Prices are heading back down.
Tom

Russ from MN · Jan 15, 2021

I was looking at scrap prices in MN, they were paying .25 a pound. I think smelting lead and recycling it are 2 different things.

SVcummins · Jan 15, 2021

Bomgaars buys batteries . The scrap yard buys batteries but
the price isn’t quite as good which leads me to believe that
Bomgaars is having the batteries rebuilt or selling them to
someone who rebuilds then ?

caterpillar guy · Jan 15, 2021

Save the old batteries will need the lead for shot and bullets later with what is happening now.

Crazy Horse · Jan 15, 2021

You're hallucinating again Cat guy. Be a hero and join in the fun when it happens ..... ha! I suggest giving it up and moving on with your life to something real and worthwhile.

old · Jan 15, 2021

Again you have nothing to do with this your not in the U.S. Ammo and reloading supplies are getting hard to come by so it never hurts to stock up. Learned years ago it is better to be prepared then it is to get caught needing and not being able to get

john_Bud · Jan 15, 2021

$60/1000# for scrap iron here.

Scrapped out 800 bucks over the past month.

Including a ford 4140 yesterday

504 · Jan 15, 2021

$205.00 a ton for shred in NEMO,I have one customer that is using 4 liquid oxygens cans twice a week cutting with propane.

muleman51 · Jan 15, 2021

There is still a lead smelter in Eagan, Mn. I worked there a couple of years ago. They run the batteries up this big stainless conveyor and
drop into a huge hammer mill, they float off the plastic separate the acid and lead everything is washed, the plastic chips get loaded in
trucks and recycled elsewhere. the lead is smelted in probably a dozen pots, loaded with 5 yard payloader smelted into ingots of many
different grades. and shipped all over the US. They also built a new plant somewhere around Tampa about ten years ago.

muleboss · Jan 15, 2021

(quoted from post at 15:16:17 01/15/21) Cut and Moved 15,000 ton in the last 3 weeks cleaning up
Dad's old yard.
Prices are heading back down.
Tom

You were one busy man.

Crazy Horse · Jan 15, 2021

C'mon Old, lighten up a bit. And remember, if you make a new rule about who can reply to who based on where they live, then you're breaking your own rule. Hopefully you weren't one of those kids in the schoolyard I remember who did that all the time.

old · Jan 15, 2021

I was the kid who got bullied all the time so I don't take it from any body. My point to what you say is what happens in the U.S. A. has little to nothing not do with what happens where you are so you don't have a cat in this fight. For that matter from what I understand if you even own a gun it is nothing more then maybe a shot gun where as i am a gun collector so ammo is important to me

bc · Jan 15, 2021

(quoted from post at 17:13:59 01/15/21) Save the old batteries will need the lead for shot and bullets later with what is happening now.

Never thought about that. How much lead can you get from a battery such as a typical car battery? If nothing else I can make a giant sling shot or catapult and launch the entire battery when they come for me (the guys in white coats and a strait jacket probably).

TGP · Jan 15, 2021

(quoted from post at 19:11:16 01/15/21)

(quoted from post at 15:16:17 01/15/21) Cut and Moved 15,000 ton in the last 3 weeks cleaning up
Dad's old yard.
Prices are heading back down.
Tom

Click to expand...

You were one busy man.

Been Steady
6 days a week One Cat 320
2 Trucks
1 Cutter

About half done, probably won't finish, will cut and stack
Until it pays again.
I'm hearing Feb 1st it takes a dive, along with the market.
Tom

Crazy Horse · Jan 16, 2021

OK then, now I have to abide by both Ohms Law and Old's Law. Does it apply to all countries or just to Canadians?

Carlmac 369 · Jan 16, 2021

(quoted from post at 09:48:07 01/16/21) OK then, now I have to abide by both Ohms Law and Old's Law. Does it apply to all countries or just to Canadians?

At least Ohm's law makes sense.

Old's Law doesn't apply to this Canadian.

Blackhole49 · Jan 16, 2021

Can tell it's January, old's getting cranky again.

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