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yard clean up .

680 lbs of clean sheet at 110/t

AdamsSamoa wrote:140 lbs of mixed steel $7.35 (our dryer went out)
8 lbs cast Al $2.00
13 Lbs of cans $5.20

$15 to the Alcoa fund...

Looks like the Alcoa stock has been going up Hopefully aluminum scrap prices will rise around here...

242 lbs of cans today

yesterday was a mixed bunch of alloy , wire

#2 wire 25%recovery was . 55/lb
this was the xms lights i cut up, some i was given.
clean sheet al .49 ---can cans with the paper labels removed.
#2 copper 1.93 this was some pipe and pieces off refridgerator and stove
prepared steel 125/t
yellow brass at 1.42/lb
dirty brass at .70
stainless -non magnetic .35
romex at 1.25
#1 wire 1.57
cast al .40---bbq's
misc dirty al ,24-- cat can lids, parts from stove ,fridges, screen windows
al extrusion at .63
total 158.85 with the bonus card.

lol and one little radiator they gave me 2.40 for , and had to have a check.

Why do they pay different for cat food cans without paper than the lids?

clean al , vs dirty. also the fact that lthose have the recycle symbol

420 lbs light iron @ $125/GT
70 lbs #1 steel @ $160/GT
281 lbs old sheet aluminum @ $0.39/lb
130 lbs extruded aluminum @ $0.44/lb
85 lbs clean ACR @ $0.90/lb
63 lbs #2 copper @ $1.90/lb
3 lbs brass @ $1.40/lb
2 lbs romex @ 0.95/lb
2 lbs THHN @ $1.30/lb
1 lb 4+AWG wire @ $1.50/lb
20 lbs dirty stainless @ $0.12/lb
22 lbs irony aluminum @ $0.11/lb
490 lbs lead batteries @ $0.32/lb

280 lbs. sheet iron $.0375 lb.

7,469 pounds of shred scrap at $100 a ton

380 lbs of tin cans and bottle caps at 78/t

140 lbs. sheet iron a stove and 3 vacs $.0375 lb.

180 lbs. Clean sheet iron $113 net ton so $.0565 lb.

7878 pounds of scrap
1 car at 3824 pounds(filled with metal)
Rest was shreds

$.05 a pound. $393.90

Found an electric motor in my scrap 11 pounds at $.10 a pound

Grand total $395

180 lb. oven with pack rat nest, went to open it up but noticed rat [shucks] cut the cord and took it in as is. $.0375 lb.

got 3 cars hauled in saturday
went to the 2nd local place as the 1st was closed for some reason
after complaining about laying underneath a rusty crap car cutting out gas tank the second guy said leave it in and dont worry about it, SO i hurried home and got 2 more loaded and hauled in before noon
1st car buick regal with some metal in it $200
2nd car pontiac sunfire FULL of metal $220
3rd car buick century very little metal inside $200

i kept ALL aluminum rims, battey's and catalytic convertors off of all 3 cars

i have 3-4 more that i am hoping to get in next saturday

440 lbs light iron @ $120/GT
100 lbs #1 steel @ $160/GT
521 lbs lead batteries @ $0.32/lb
5 lbs romex @ $1.00/lb
15 lbs clean ACR @ $0.95/lb
12 lbs #2 copper @ $1.85/lb
10 lbs irony aluminum @ $0.11/lb
8 lbs electric motor @ $0.17/lb
35 lbs compressor @ $0.09/lb

tin/light Iron 150 GT 1630#
fridge, washer dryer ,ac out side unit, compressor , 4 hot water tanks.

cut the cords, took brass and copper off, saving for later

Hauled in a few more cars and the scrap guy has a box from a tractor trailer so I negotiated a deal that includes setup and delivery. Actual cost out of pocket is $100 as I traded scrap for the rest. Now I have 1 place to put all of my car parts.

Mike

That's awesome to have a storage unit of some kind that isn't rented. I miss not having a garage to pile stuff in, I've been using a spare bedroom, a really tiny storage unit, and the back of my truck. I'm bringing in some metal later this week, although I might go next week since it may be less busy. I'm still not very good at separating everything properly. I have sheet aluminum, cast, tubes, two stainless sinks, a box of circuit boards, box of wire, and a couple of batteries. I could have scrapped a jazzy from the scooter store which went out of business for scamming medicaid, but I just took the wires and batteries off it and pushed it into a dumpster and to the landfill it goes. I'm just not good at scrapping iron yet, and I didn't feel like taking it apart. Maybe I didn't need to take it apart.. I spend allot of time taking things apart and it seems hardly worth it. This last week I scrapped an Imac, maybe I should have kept the aluminum it came in but so much plastic and crap was attached to it I just tossed it to the landfill. Again, I had these cast aluminum cable outlets with the stainless steel where the cable attaches, couldn't get them apart, so to the landfill it goes, if I can't separate the metal the scrap yard complains so I just throw it to the landfill gods instead.

All the stuff you are throwing away can be sold for scrap metal for probably $100 a ton
If you have the time and it doesn't cost you anything to mess around continue to do what you are doing
If you have other stuff going on I would re-evaluate your system

Instead of the landfill you may find other scrappers that are willing to take your sheet iron. Better than the landfill.

Also check with your yard they should have dirty aluminum, dirty brass and dirty stainless steel prices. Sometimes it is better to take an item in as dirty vs. breaking it down

Friend had a dryer that died.... I scrapped it with my empty cans for $15.... going in the Alcoa fund.

Garage sale season continues:

840 lbs light iron @ $125/GT
120 lbs #1 steel @ $165/GT
10 lbs unprepared steel @ $135/GT
41 lbs irony aluminum @ $0.11/lb
26 lbs mixed aluminum @ $0.41/lb
2 lbs extruded aluminum @ $0.47/lb
115 lbs lead batteries @ $0.32/lb
5 lbs wheel weights @ $0.15/lb
2 lbs clean lead @ $0.55/lb
1 lb leaded pewter @ $2.70/lb
2 lbs solder @ $1.10/lb
50 lbs brass @ $1.40/lb
12 lbs #2 copper @ $1.95/lb
1 lb #1 copper @ $2.10/lb
14 lbs clean ACR @ $0.95/lb
11 lbs dirty brass radiator @ $1.05/lb
5 lbs romex @ $1.10/lb
1 lb steel BX @ $0.17/lb
1 lb aluminum BX @ $0.60/lb
52 lbs electric motor @ $0.18/lb
50 lbs compressor @ $0.09/lb
3 lbs stainless steel @ $0.25/lb
2 lbs dirty stainless @ 0.12/lb

Thanks to the guys for the comments on my questions about what's worth to scrap and what's not, and please excuse my poor attitude here. I brought in some of my aluminum/stainless parts, 5 cents, I'm a little bummed how can aluminum and stainless steel together be only worth 5 cents/lb. Well .. now I know why so much of this metal I pull out of the dumpster is going to the landfill, it's not even worth it to recycle, which is really, really sad because of the carbon load. Is it even worth it for me to stop so much of this metal from going to the landfill, my gas/time, nope I'm losing money. Who's going to haul 100 lbs. of aluminum/stainless mix metal in to get only 5 dollars? I'm getting 5 old pentium computers next week, I'm just going to pull the ram/processors, and dump them into the landfill, the circuit boards/power supplies, iron, next to no value, I will actually be throwing gold into the landfill. I've got about 50 lbs. of aluminum left here that I just need to pound on for probably 4 hours to get clean, it's going to the landfill. I had a whole box of circuit boards, even one from a playstation 3!, I look at this circuit board, all I can see is layers of copper!, it was my heaviest circuit board, near worthless. Many of the circuit boards had copper windings all over them, not even worth it! Yah get 4 cents for bringing a 2 lb. hard drive in..
SO .. I went to the scrapyard today.
Sheet Iron 17@125/tn ---- 1.07
Cast - Clean Auto 32 @ 170/tn ---- 2.72
Old Sheet Aluminum 16@ .39 ---- 6.24
Old Cast Aluminum 59@.38 ---- 22.42
Aluminum breakage 4 @.05 ----.20 cents!
Yellow brass solids 2@1.56 ---- 3.12
#2 insulated copper 35 @.89 ----31.15
Auto batteries 50 @.24 ----12.00
Die cast 2 @.45 ----.90
18.8 stainless steel 20 @.28 ---- 5.60
Electric motors 1@.13 ----.13
Small copper transformer 2 @.02 ---- .04
Low grade board 12 @.05 ---- .60