Scrap prices up?

parisspringstom · Dec 31, 2015

scrap prices up to $60 per ton from $40. Good sign?

Zachary Hoyt · Dec 31, 2015

A fellow told me on Tuesday that in northern NY it was $5 a ton. I don't know if it was true, though.
Zach

Geo-TH,In · Dec 31, 2015

There are many different grades of scrap, tin, iron, cast, different lengths. I remember decades ago, tin was $5. Then it hit $200. Last tin I sold was $15. Tin is the least.

tomNE · Dec 31, 2015

our local scrap guy was paying $5ton till today; now he will unload you for nothing in jan. he thought he might charge to dump in feb.

sms · Dec 31, 2015

Local scrap yard closed. It is branch yard of a large outfit. Wasn't profitable with prices down. Will probably open if prices go up.

tractorguy2 · Dec 31, 2015

It makes a difference which scrap yard you go too. Here there are three. One will not take anything air conditioner components. If they find any in your load. You have to take the parts back home. Two yards don't care what lenegth your scrap is. It can be 2ft or 18 ft long they don't care. The other yard docks you if your scrap is over 3ft long. You get more money if you seperate cast iron from the steel. If you don't, They call it "mixed metal" and pay less.

K Effective · Dec 31, 2015

I thought I'd be smart and have my farm fuel tank blasted and painted before I move it, since it will be more visible from the house (to be legal distance from the barn). The sandblaster called and said the tank was seeping after he got the paint off- we looked it over and decided not to pursue repair. A new 300 gallon tank from the coop was only $400, he wanted $450 to blast and paint the old 500 gallon. Since the scrap yard was near the co-op, I ran it right over there. $50 per gross ton for sheet steel, blasted free of paint, and verified empty. Netted $10.75 for the old tank. He only charged me $100 for his time blasting to that point. Just the way things seem to go around here some times...

Old weldor · Dec 31, 2015

Bad sign, there goes the rest of the parts tractors and parts cars. Plus every other thing the lowlife scrappers can steal!

steve terplak · Dec 31, 2015

Upstate Ny. (Near albany) was $50/ton for tin last week

DENNIS MIN · Dec 31, 2015

keff,

Perhaps you may have had the tank inverted, then welded, with the right fitting.

Please consider this post as a measure of helpfulness.

D>

SmokeEater2 · Dec 31, 2015

(quoted from post at 16:49:39 12/31/15) Bad sign, there goes the rest of the parts tractors and parts cars. Plus every other thing the lowlife scrappers can steal!

Yeah, Scrap prices have claimed a lot of good old tractors and implements.

2 bottom Dearborn plows used to be as common as dirt and cheap in my area.

They are really hard to find now and expensive to boot.

J.Wondergem · Dec 31, 2015

Here, sheet iron is $50. Auto is $60.

1206SWMO · Dec 31, 2015

Over the past 3-4 years I have watched 100's of tractors go for scrap...At a sale in SW Kansas in 2014 about
75 or more of 200 tractors went for scrap..Heres 3 on that sale that sold for $750-1050 each and went to
Colorado for scrap..It tore me up but I was over 400 miles from home and the hauling was just too much..

I did manage to save the GVI MM in the bottom picture...A scrapper got it for $575 and I couldn't let that
happen so bought it from him for $700..It had been overhauled 20 years earlier and never used..It was only 125
miles from home..At that sale 32 of 100 tractors sold for scrap..

37chief · Dec 31, 2015

For the money he paid for the three on the top I don't think he will make much. Stan

RayP(MI) · Jan 1, 2016

Was told our local scrap yard closing down for a couple months due to extremely low scrap prices.

Leroy · Jan 1, 2016

Did they actually go for scrap? Or did a parts yard by them? Big difference Is scrap all will be gone, parts yard they will keep other tractors going.

1206SWMO · Jan 2, 2016

They all went for scrap and are long gone....Back then the scrappers were out bidding the parts yards....At the huge sale in SW Kansas the Mexican scrappers were busting up some of them shortly after they bought them..They would sell you parts for a reasonable price if you caught them in time...They bounced a huge check at that sale but made it good in less than a week..They then bought 100's of tons of stuff at another huge sale in western Kansas which was one week later..

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