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This is the 1,000th reply on this thread. I have to say this thread was quite successful. I bet there aren't too many on the entire RC site that have more postings...

Today I recycled the following:

140# steel @ $80/ton (4 cents/lb.) = $5.60
1# INS Copper #1 (80%) @ 1.20 = $1.20
2# clean aluminum @ .40 = .80
9# yellow brass @ 1.40 = 12.60
TOTAL FOR ABOVE = $20.20

Recyclersteve wrote:This is the 1,000th reply on this thread. I have to say this thread was quite successful. I bet there aren't too many on the entire RC site that have more postings...

Today I recycled the following:

140# steel @ $80/ton (4 cents/lb.) = $5.60
1# INS Copper #1 (80%) @ 1.20 = $1.20
2# clean aluminum @ .40 = .80
9# yellow brass @ 1.40 = 12.60
TOTAL FOR ABOVE = $20.20

$20.20 ON 4/20

27 lbs #2 ins wire @ $.90 lb
27 lbs stainless steel @ $.47 lb
14 lbs cast alum @ $.57 lb
11 lbs dirty stainless steel $.21 lb
100 lbs aluminum clean sheet @ $.53 lb
40 lbs aluminum ext @ $.74 lb
8 lbs CU / Alu radiator @ $1.24 lb

Total $139.80

Prices have a + $.10 bonus for this trip

drats I forgot my slip. turned in even more stuff than you lolo.

I almost want to stop using cfs. but suspect the other places are no better.

punk that unloaded my truck. broke my totes because he was to lazy to pick them up , or take some stuff out. just slammed them into the ground. so I lost 40.00 ... when I bitched to the owner he just said. take some milk crates. then they only paid me shred, when it was all prepared.

that was in the morning, in my gfs truck. later I went back with mine that had half
''torch'' ie long bars, rods, table legs.
again the paid shred.

complained to the cashier... she made it right. then as I walked to the hot dog cart. I was reading my pay slip........ no .10 bonus. wTF

finished my hotdog and went back to complain yet again..... ended up giving me another 26.00

Yep need better faster help at the small scales. For my aluminum I had clean sheet in the bottom of the truck and some extruded separated on top. Kid says go to scale, I say extruded pays more lets just remove it and then I will go to scale with rest. Kid says don't worry I'll fix it, ? Put me down for 100 lbs clean sheet and 40 extruded (which was probably too much extruded) but he was lazy as you said. Kid always thinks I am in a bad mood when I go there LOL. But I am sure I got screwed at the big scale by 20 lbs on the clean sheet so I guess it all works out! LOL Were they busy when you were there? I wondered how much traffic they would get doing the radio thing? With the punch card full there prices normally are a little higher than the rest of the yards around them. I like Desert Metals much better but have not gone there so far this year...

Having our yearly yard sale today, we will see how much scrap items I sell. LOL Most of the stuff was found looking for scrap metal.

$584.00 Yard sale!!

Sweet on the yard sale. Some aluminum pans I found in the dumpster, box of wire. Dumpster diver here. Two little motors, power convertors, computer motherboard, power supply $34

Mid-day Sunday...

Aluminum cans 1.4 0.75 lb. $1.05
Aluminum MLC 7.4 0.45 lb. $3.33
#1 IC (Insulated Cpr.) wire (70%) 0.4 1.3 lb. $0.52
#2 IC (Insulated Cpr.) wire (30%) 2.6 0.25 lb. $0.65
TOTAL FOR ABOVE 11.8# $5.55

Not a killing, but it helped pay for lunch.

WEEK of 13-18
glass 2213
cardboard 463
paper 78

al cans 208 lb

week of 20-25
glass 1982
cb 429
paper 67

160 lbs sheet iron $4.40 total

been converting my scrap $ to Alcoa stock... have 20 shares as of yesterday

monthly totals
glass 8584
cardboard 2086
paper 405

28 lbs glass no CRV @ $.03
3 lbs #1 plastic no CRV @ $.25
5 lbs #2 plastic @ $.10
97 lbs paper @ $.02
140 lbs sheet iron @ $.0275

$7.88 total

WAWAWA
metal desk beside the road, and no room for it on the truck.

My scrap dealer called yesterday and let me know shreddables has moved up to $130.00 per ton. Still way down, but any upward movement is welcome. I can remember when we would get $23.00 a ton for the stuff so I'm not going to cry too much, yet!

silversaddle1 wrote:My scrap dealer called yesterday and let me know shreddables has moved up to $130.00 per ton. Still way down, but any upward movement is welcome. I can remember when we would get $23.00 a ton for the stuff so I'm not going to cry too much, yet!

When you say shreddables, are you referring to paper or something else? (never heard that term before)

Light steel that a scrap yard would run thru a shredder. Nothing over 1/4 inch thick as a general rule.

440 mixed steel
8 lbs Al cans
3 lbs # 1 cu
3 lbs cast Al
11 lbs electric motors

$38 Bucks going into the Alcoa stock fund

I see some entries here on Mothers Day. I can just imagine someone from RC saying to his wife, "Happy Mothers' Day!" By the way, today we're going to the scrapyard!

Took in 3850# of shread. Up to $140.00 a ton!

silversaddle1 wrote:Took in 3850# of shread. Up to $140.00 a ton!

Send that increase this way please I am afraid that all the places will hold with prices till summer is over, as we cant have a summer price drop at $50 a ton (I hope)

hot water tank 160 lbs sheet iron $.0275 lb a whole $4.40 but its outta my truck!

single largest day. okay it took me several days of loading stuff into the oldladys truck too.

1260 lb of glass on hers and 850 on mine.. so I can finally say, I turned in a ton in one day/.