What did you scrap?

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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Fri May 13, 2011 10:38 am

700 lbs sheet iron @ .0925 price up .025 $64.75 TTL
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby MetalMan » Fri May 13, 2011 2:03 pm

sounds like a lot of heavy lifting, a good work out i'll bet....
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby GA-Silver » Fri May 13, 2011 3:22 pm

10 lbs of Alumn. cans @ $.78 a lb = $7.80
40 lbs of Alumn. gutters @ $.60 a lbs =$24.00

Total haul = $31.80
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby abe » Sat May 14, 2011 4:39 am

19lbs alum. cans @ .60 = $11
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Whinstone » Tue May 17, 2011 4:44 pm

380 lbs steel $9.000 CWT = $34.20
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Hades12 » Tue May 17, 2011 9:24 pm

1400# of steel at .11 $154

Picked up 1520 # of compressors
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Tue May 17, 2011 9:26 pm

Are u going to cut them open?
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Hades12 » Wed May 18, 2011 5:30 pm

Yea I cut them for the copper.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Heartkill » Sat May 21, 2011 3:57 pm

Today's load:

980lbs. mixed steel @ $0.125lb. - $122.50
29lbs. aluminum cans @ $0.65lb. - $18.85

Total - $141.35
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby maoguinn » Sat May 21, 2011 9:04 pm

5lbs #2 copper @ $3.00lb - $15.00
33lbs Alum. cans @ $ .70lb - $23.10

Total - $38.10
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby scrapper2010 » Sat May 21, 2011 10:07 pm

30lbs stainless @ .60/lb - $18.00
419lbs shredder iron @ .09/lb - $37.71

Total - $53.19
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Mon May 23, 2011 2:30 pm

470 lbs. sheet iron / steel @ .09 $42.20
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Whinstone » Mon May 23, 2011 2:38 pm

    28 lbs.aluminum cans =$19.60, 56lbs aluminum clean =$30.80, 7lbs. yellow brass clean =$11.90, 6.8 lbs #2 copper =$20.06, 2.4 lbs #1 copper = $7.56, 40.8 lbs stainless steel =$20.40, 65lbs electric motors= $15.60, Total +$126.00
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Mossy » Thu May 26, 2011 6:57 pm

Hope none of you are in Pittsburgh. Someone is stealing the iron garbage cans, probably for scrap.

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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby davycoppitt » Fri May 27, 2011 3:58 pm

My parents steel garbage cans got stolen. That was in Minnesota. There is someone going around the neighborhood taking anything metal that is in sight.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby OneBiteAtATime » Fri May 27, 2011 5:11 pm

166 lb shred @ .11
11 lb painted alum @ .50

$23.76

$7.50 changed immediately to 3 merc dimes. The rest goes to tools and beer.

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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby CrazyTom » Sun May 29, 2011 10:37 am

$50.65

179 pounds of steel
7 pounds of lead
10 pounds aluminum cans
7 pounds wire
7 pounds brass
4 pounds aluminum
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby CrazyTom » Tue May 31, 2011 8:34 pm

I saw a guy today by an apartment complex dumpster stripping the foam from a steel box spring mattress.

I struck up a conversation and he quickly explained that a woman broke his bank and he's scrapping
so he can have something exempt from her clutches.

I'm sure he isn't the only one.....
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:08 am

Today in So. AZ 550 lbs sheet iron/ steel .09 lb. $49.50 TTL
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:19 pm

Took a load in today in So. Az as I am afraid on how much longer the prices will stay high as summer is near.
Elect motors 122 lbs .30 lb (price same as April)
#2 coppper 12 lbs @ 3.05 lb (price down .15 from April)
Furnace alum 33 lbs @ .35 lb (price up .05 from Apri)
Cast Alum 19 lbs @ .65 lb (price same as April)
CU/Alum raidator 4 lbs @ 1.55 lb (price up .30 from Dec)
Alum MLC 9 lbs @ .70 lb (price same as April)
Compressors 51 lbs @ .12 lb (price up .02 from Feb)
#2 ins wire 10 lbs @ 1.10 lb (price down .05 from April)
Yellow Brass 20 lbs @ 1.70 lb (price same as April)
Alum Cans 15 lbs @ .75 lb (price up .05 from April)

TTL 171.97 he gave me $172 :)
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby natsb88 » Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:02 pm

5/7/11 in central PA

Cans 13 @ $0.60 = $7.80
Reg Al 136 @ $0.50 = $68.00
Al Turnings 162 $ 0.25 = $40.50
#2 Cu 4 @ $2.80 = $11.20
#1 Ins Cu 60% 5 @ $1.30 = $6.50
Stainless Turnings 36 @ $0.10 = $3.60
Cat Conv 1/2 Full BB = $15.00
Mix Steel 600 @ $0.12 = $72.00
TOTAL $224.60
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Thu Jun 09, 2011 3:27 pm

today in So. AZ

350 lbs sheet iron/ steel @ .09 lb $31.50
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby CrazyTom » Sun Jun 12, 2011 12:03 am

$35 today in steel, brass, cans, and electric motors.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hirbonzig » Sun Jun 12, 2011 6:57 am

122 lbs unprepared iron---$13.72
13 lbs misc. aluminum---$7.80
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Hades12 » Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:34 pm

1260 # shred steel 11.90 per 100 149.94

Picked up a 520# work table 19 per 100 for 99.

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