Steel prices

[old3dogg]

Well! At least I aint the only guy mad at the Chinese!
All they took from me was my job.
We tried to set up a mill to make pallet wood.We found out that we couldnt buy pole wood because it was all being chipped into containers and shipped to china ?
We will all be working at wal mart before long.

[timberbeast]

I work for an investment casting company in the machining department.  The price of our raw steel has gone up over 40%,  and,  yep it's because China is buying it as fast as they can.  There are lots of investment casters in the U.S. now who are just brokering Chinese castings,  due to labor costs.  We hope that in the long run,  our quality will win out over the price differences,  and so far it's working,  we're actually hiring,  a lot.
If you're riding a newer Harley,  you're probably shifting with,  steering with,  and resting your feet on components that my crew machined and my company cast.

[rebocardo]

> I may need to replace the roof on our house,
> before we sell it

The cheapest shingles from Home Depot, you will never recoup the costs of steel or 80 MPH+ 30 year shingles.

Though I agree with what someone else posted, always take off the old shingles. I know most local laws allow up to three layers, but, that is an awful amount of weight and you can never do a long lasting job by nailing one layer over another. Especially, since you can not renail broken boards etc.

I would not mind someone putting up the cheapest asphalt singles they could buy, I would mind a lousy job doing it renailed it over bad material that will leak later.

[Corley5]

I was told the other day that Chinese buyers are coming into the scrap yard in Gaylord once a week and buying everything they've collected since the last visit.  It get's loaded on trucks and is hauled to a rail yard and then makes its way to a Mississippi river port where it's loaded onto barges for the trip to New Orleans where it gets put on a ship for China.  Seems like Japan did something similar prior to the 1940s

[Captain]

I had two "parts" cars removed from the property yesterday as they have given up all that they could for me over the years., I was having a conversation about scrap steel prices with the owner of the salvage company. He said that the scrap prices have peaked here in Massachusetts and are going down.  They peaked about 2 weeks ago and are down 25% (peaked at $100/ton, now are $75/ton)

Captain

[Jeff]

I just got an estimate on steel roof. My roof is about 21 square.  $8500  ouch.  Think I better shingle myself.

[Furby]

I think you better shingle your ROOF!  


Ah ha! Now I know what that piggy roast is REALLY for!