What did you scrap?

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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby xippi » Mon Oct 07, 2019 3:02 pm

hobo finds wrote:On another scrap metal site i am on they were taking shred for free in las vegas and one yard will not take it at all. Better get rid of the rest of my stuff before it gets worse around here.

thats terrible they guy working at my yard was saying the lowest was $60 I remember $30 less then 7 years ago. Im just doing my regulars and taking the time , ( i have a little right now) to separate everyting i can.

Ny yard was paying $200 GT tin/light iron 3/29 -4/6/ 2018 has gone str8 down since.
Now at $80
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Dr. Cadmium » Wed Oct 09, 2019 2:48 pm

Aluminum and copper prices continue to slide...

300 lbs light iron 70/GT
13 lbs #1 steel 120/GT
35 lbs mixed Al 0.25
30 lbs irony Al 0.05
1 lb dirty Al wire 0.20
4 lbs steel BX 0.14
13 lbs #2 copper 1.75
4 lbs romex 1.00
1 lb mixed wire 0.45
7 lbs clean ACR 0.80
1 lb brass 1.15
20 lbs compressor 0.10
9 lbs batteries 0.24
9 lbs dirty stainless 0.10

Total: $60.10
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Recyclersteve » Wed Oct 09, 2019 9:59 pm

This isn’t about what I scrapped but what I wish I could have scrapped. I was working on a project in a very rural area recently. The place was about 100 miles from home. The project was to remove 4 sections of steel pipe. I could dispose of it however I wish.

Well, I drive an SUV and three of the sections (up to 15 feet long each) won’t fit in my vehicle. Even if they did, I’d lose money hauling them to a recycling place over 100 miles each way from there.

I don’t like to see things wasted when they can be reused. I’m telling a few of the locals they can just have the piping if they haul it away. Other than that, what would you guys have done?
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby xippi » Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:33 am

#144 Tin/Light Iron $80.00gt $5.13
#129 #1 HMS Prepared $130.00gt $7.49
#12 AL Old Sheet $0.23 $2.76
#7 AL CU Radiators $0.80 $5.60
#19 Compressor $0.09 $1.71
#8 #2 Cu Insulated <39 $0.19 $1.52
#231 Batteries $0.24 $55.44
total $79.65


Recyclersteve I would try and give em away to , craigslist etc. hard sell even at free. but if I had to get them out I would cut um up and Scrap em. Hard to say without a better description but if there thick pipes #1 Steel HMS (unprepared if over 5ft) $130gi for 2240lb so yeah not really worth it in time and fuel for the cutting torch or chop saw. But if u have to move em out of there, how else are you? Landfill closer? Trailer?
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Recyclersteve » Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:54 pm

Without getting too personal on a public forum, CL won’t work here. Thx for the idea.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Dr. Cadmium » Mon Oct 14, 2019 12:38 pm

340 lbs light iron $70/GT
320 lbs #1 steel 120/GT
3 lbs Al 0.25/lb
2 lbs irony Al 0.05
6 lbs extruded Al 0.30
2 lbs dirty Al wire 0.20
1 lb romex 1.00
138 lbs electric motors 0.13
19 lbs batteries 0.24
2 lbs pewter 2.00

Total: $58.32, rounded up to $58.35
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Tue Oct 15, 2019 4:48 pm

180 lb. Sheet iron $.0225 lb.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Dr. Cadmium » Wed Oct 16, 2019 1:12 pm

Picked this lot up yesterday while running errands around town.

120 lbs light iron 70/GT
6 lbs #1 steel 120/GT
7 lbs irony Al 0.05/lb
7 lbs bare bright 2.10

Total: $19.12, rounded up to $19.15
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby messymessy » Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:59 pm

Old work van, tires removed, filled with other scrap steel. $90.20 ($25 per ton)

I've gotten as much as $600 selling old empty work vans as scrap.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby xippi » Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:07 pm

10/16/19 Down down down
#1216 Tin/Light Iron $50.00 $27.16
#93 #1 HMS Prepared $100.00 $4.15
#37 AL Old Sheet $0.21 $7.77
#51 AL FE Mid Grade $0.06 $3.06
#9 Brass FE HI Recovey $0.12 $1.08
#6 Yellow Brass $1.22 $7.32
#2 #2 Copper $1.80 $3.60
#454 Electric Motor $0.09 $40.86
#31 #2 CU Insulated <39 $0.21 $6.51
#11 S/S 304 Prepared $0.24 $2.64
#30 Batteries $0.24 $7.20
$111.35
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Mon Oct 21, 2019 4:35 pm

Our 20 year old fridge got a whopping $4.50 for it. No way the new one will last that long. Lol
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby xippi » Tue Oct 22, 2019 3:28 pm

10/22/19

#545 Tin/Light Iron $50.00 $12.19 washer,stove, water tank, microwave
#4 AL Old Sheet $0.21 $0.84
#3 Yellow Brass $1.21 $3.63
#15 #2 Cu Insulated <39 $0.21 $3.15
#1 S/S 304 Irony $0.06 $0.06 Washer hoses
#12 Batteries $0.24 $2.88
Total $22.75
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Recyclersteve » Wed Oct 23, 2019 1:51 pm

hobo finds wrote:Our 20 year old fridge got a whopping $4.50 for it. No way the new one will last that long. Lol


This is just plain sad- to get so little for something so heavy that served you so well for so many years. Nothing you can do about it of course.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Wed Oct 23, 2019 4:39 pm

100 lbs. Patio chairs bulky and not worth picking up made $2.25 lol
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:02 am

320# clean sheet , 85 ton.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:02 am

11 pallets ,2 each.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:03 am

172# crushed water bottles as .40
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Dr. Cadmium » Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:33 pm

140 lbs light iron 70/GT
110 lbs mixed Al 0.25/lb
35 lbs extruded Al 0.35
27 lbs irony Al 0.05
57 lbs #2 copper 1.75
2 lbs #1 copper 1.95
9 lbs brass 1.20
8 lbs romex 1.00
9 lbs #2 wire 1.00
159 lbs batteries 0.24

Total: $213.34, rounded up to $213.35
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Fri Nov 01, 2019 10:29 am

79 # plastic ,49# of the plastic caps. As I take them off, dry the bottle's a few days, then crush by walking on them in a 30 gallon barrel.so I accumulated the caps in pretzel barrels.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Sat Nov 02, 2019 8:23 pm

50/50 tin cans in a fridge casing, clean sheet. 280 lbs. $55/ ton. Today I saw lots of steel left it there. Except for a pair of rotors.did not even make gas money.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby xippi » Sun Nov 03, 2019 8:44 am

10/29/19
#80 #1 HMS Prepared $100.00 $3.59 truck bumper
#551 Tin/Light Iron $50.00 $12.30 white goods
#3 Yellow Brass $1.21 $3.63
#26 Electric Motors $0.09 $2.34
#13 #2 Cu Insulated <39% $0.21 $2.73
#1 #1 CU Insulated 50% $0.82 $0.82
#26 Batteries $0.24 $6.24
Total $31.65
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Sun Nov 03, 2019 3:21 pm

cwgii wrote:50/50 tin cans in a fridge casing, clean sheet. 280 lbs. $55/ ton. Today I saw lots of steel left it there. Except for a pair of rotors.did not even make gas money.


How bad are prices gonna get here when the min wage goes up a buck to $12 hour?
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Sun Nov 03, 2019 6:26 pm

Catch 22, pay how's up, price of recycled goes down, more trash, takes longer for city to pick up, costing more.geesh
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Dr. Cadmium » Sat Nov 09, 2019 6:37 pm

668 lbs mixed wire 0.50
52 lbs Cat5 wire 0.70
28 lbs AC adapters with wire 0.24

Total: $377.12
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby xippi » Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:46 pm

#100 #1 HMS Prepared $120.00 $5.36
#1064 Tin/Light Iron $75.00 $35.63
#102 AL Old Sheet $0.23 $23.46
#85 AL Wheels Auto $0.30 $25.50
#19 Yellow Brass $1.25 $23.75
#3 #2 Copper $1.92 $5.76
#45 S/S 304 Prepared $0.26 $11.70
#2 Lead PB $0.32 $0.64
total $131.80
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