Scrap prices...

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

I've got some junk buckets to clean out myself. Guess it's a good time

took some prepared iron the other day 9 cents a pound, didn't have much but think it was around 5 cents this time last year

I called the local scrap yard yesterday on Aluminum -- Irrigation pipe .50/ lb -- was .37 last spring when i had to get some out of the way. Figured to wait another month or so to haul.

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...

scrap steel here was paying 150 a ton about a week ago

Prices here are better than they have been recently.
Per pound:
Iron 10.5 cents
Alum cans and siding 48 cents
Cast alum 45 cents
Bare bright copper 2.80
# 1 copper 2.60
# 2 copper 2.45
# 2 coated copper wire 65 cents
# 1 coated copper wire 97 cents

Couple weeks back I took old bunk beds to be recycled steel was at $0.08 lb my load was 120lbs total

Prices are high because of inflation. You can't buy anymore with the value of scrap now then you could before.

Keith

yup

The dollar is getting to be worthless.