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Author Topic: Anyone Know What Scrap Metal is Selling For?  (Read 1298 times)

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Offline Corley5

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Re: Anyone Know What Scrap Metal is Selling For?
« Reply #20 on: January 24, 2008, 10:19:25 pm »
can get a garden hose out there????---the water temp out of the hose will melt em loose real quick--and haul em now----

It'd take several hundred feet of hose and we're not exactly sure where all of them may be  ;D ;) :)
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Re: Anyone Know What Scrap Metal is Selling For?
« Reply #21 on: January 24, 2008, 11:19:34 pm »
I was quoted $120/ton guts, feathers and all, with a deduct of 150 pounds per tire for any type of whole farm machinery.  $190/ton for iron and steel cut into 4' by 2 ' pieces delivered to the scrap yard. 

We have got many tons to haul.  Every farm implement or machine that my Dad ever bought is still on the farm, many older than I am. 
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Re: Anyone Know What Scrap Metal is Selling For?
« Reply #22 on: January 24, 2008, 11:21:30 pm »
Before you sell it as scrap, you might oughta see if it is antique enough to draw collectors.
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Re: Anyone Know What Scrap Metal is Selling For?
« Reply #23 on: January 24, 2008, 11:37:43 pm »
Tom is right.

Around here, just iron wheels off of old implements bring $45 to $100 a peice.
AND, if you are artistic, dissasemble the old farm implement and weld it up for Yard Art.
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Re: Anyone Know What Scrap Metal is Selling For?
« Reply #24 on: January 24, 2008, 11:49:26 pm »
There is an ancient old grain drill with large steel spoke wheels that just might fit that bill.  (If I may take poetic license ::)).
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Re: Anyone Know What Scrap Metal is Selling For?
« Reply #25 on: January 25, 2008, 04:13:51 am »
I make my living selling scrap. The price of steel is going down. You might want to call for prices before you haul it in.

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Re: Anyone Know What Scrap Metal is Selling For?
« Reply #26 on: January 25, 2008, 06:46:34 am »
$135/ton for whole vehicles and "light" steel (sheetmetal, etc).  $165/ton for "heavy" iron.

They don't seem to care how big the pieces are out here...

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