Help with scrapping

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Help with scrapping

Postby DRP270 » Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:58 pm

OK, I am an AG/AU noob from BS but I need some scrapping help. I have tried reading many of the threads but maybe I am too noob to get what I am reading. Let me explain my situation. I bought some rural property that has assorted discarded metallic items I would like to get rid of. Included would be the metal rings that once formed a barrel, an old swing seat, rusty barbed wire, some kind of John Deer object I am not sure what is, an old what looks like a grass mower you would pull behind a tractor, Tbar, corrugated sheet metal, and other objects like that. My primary interest is to get it off the property so it is nicer looking. I was thinking of scrapping to recover the gas cost of getting rid of it. I also have some tires, tractor it looks mostly. It all might fit in the bed of a pickup (maybe not the tires). I was wondering if any of this is worth scrapping and where would I find a scrap buyer? Or should I just haul to the dump and be done with it even though that would be a cost. I bet you folks have got this many times before but I did not find it, sorry about that.
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Re: Help with scrapping

Postby Thogey » Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:07 pm

Don't dump it!

Worst case scenario: Your scrap yard is to far and you don't want to hassle with it. Just give it away. Someone will haul it off.

Sounds like a bunch of steel/junk iron. This will bring about 180-240 per ton at this time.

You'll have to do the math.
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Re: Help with scrapping

Postby jasmatk » Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:05 am

look in the phone book for a scrap yard near you if its to far do like thogey said have someone haul it off but i wouldnt give it away just sell it at a discount to what the yards are paying.
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Re: Help with scrapping

Postby tractorman » Sat Nov 12, 2011 10:31 am

I wouldn't be so quick to scrap old farm implements. They are worth way more as workers, fixer-uppers, parts, and even yard art. Get someone interested, via CL or the like, and you'll get more than scrap prices and they'll even come pick it up.
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Re: Help with scrapping

Postby Kurr » Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:42 am

Call an auctioneer to evaluate what you have if it contains antiques like that. If theres value above scrap they will set up a sale, advertise it, and sell it for you to the highest bidder for a percentage.

Some of them tractor seats can go for many hundreds or more a piece if they are the right ones.
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Re: Help with scrapping

Postby cesariojpn » Sun Nov 13, 2011 4:11 pm

tractorman wrote:I wouldn't be so quick to scrap old farm implements. They are worth way more as workers, fixer-uppers, parts, and even yard art. Get someone interested, via CL or the like, and you'll get more than scrap prices and they'll even come pick it up.


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