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Scrap prices...
#7232044
03/31/21 06:21 PM
03/31/21 06:21 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,570 La Crosse, WI
Macthediver
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La Crosse, WI
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Spring cleaning got stuff been tripping over, and tossing into buckets all winter loaded on truck. I sold some sheet iron last fall don't recall for sure? but was some where under $100 ton think it was around $60 ton???
Today prices 3/31/21
Sheet steel what I call anything goes crap pile. $120.00 ton Old Sheet Aluminum ---$0.39 lb Yellow Brass -------------$2.00 lb #2 copper scrap---------$3.09 lb #2 insulated wire -------$1.26 lb Aluminum Cans---------$0.42 lb
I didn't have a whole lot of any one of these things in my buckets. Yellow brass brought me single most money. My total for 6 mile trip to Alter Metal was $84.94 I have to say I thought was well worth getting shed cleaned out. Stuff was going no matter the price.. Dang aluminum cans are the worst take up room..I don't take time to crush them.. Looks like it pays to strip heavier copper wire. Bucket of insulated wire I had was all cords cut off appliances stuff like that.
So whats going on it the rest the world out there? Any one else run anything over scale lately?
Mac
"Never Forget Which Way Is Up"
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Re: Scrap prices...
[Re: Macthediver]
#7232059
03/31/21 06:36 PM
03/31/21 06:36 PM
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Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 1,500 Kenai AK
KenaiKid
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I've got some junk buckets to clean out myself. Guess it's a good time
Boco couldn't catch a cold. But if he did, it would be Top Lot.
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Re: Scrap prices...
[Re: Macthediver]
#7232192
03/31/21 09:10 PM
03/31/21 09:10 PM
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Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 6,350 se South Dakota
NonPCfed
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I guess I'm finally getting to the buckets of "harder to scrap" stuff at the right time. What a difference a year or year half makes! Our prices are a bit lower than the OP's prices but I'll be taking more stuff in shortly. Kind of wondering why the big increases, it more than just the economy "heating up again". NF scrap prices were pretty bad the 6 months before covid hit. I wonder if the Chinese and others are starting to hoard copper again against all the fiat debt that the U.S. and other western nations are doing the last year or so. Probably make a modest run early next week. I'll have to find or make another heavy gauge Cu wire stripping jig, loving these "bare bright" prices...
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: Scrap prices...
[Re: NonPCfed]
#7232265
03/31/21 10:32 PM
03/31/21 10:32 PM
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Joined: May 2009
Posts: 15,702 Champaign County, Ohio.
KeithC
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I guess I'm finally getting to the buckets of "harder to scrap" stuff at the right time. What a difference a year or year half makes! Our prices are a bit lower than the OP's prices but I'll be taking more stuff in shortly. Kind of wondering why the big increases, it more than just the economy "heating up again". NF scrap prices were pretty bad the 6 months before covid hit. I wonder if the Chinese and others are starting to hoard copper again against all the fiat debt that the U.S. and other western nations are doing the last year or so. Probably make a modest run early next week. I'll have to find or make another heavy gauge Cu wire stripping jig, loving these "bare bright" prices... Prices are high because of inflation. You can't buy anymore with the value of scrap now then you could before. Keith
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