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Interesting day here, Maybe a decent contact!

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scott#2

05-17-2008 19:20:43




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Just ran into a guy who bought an old van off my neighbor for 50$ for scrap. I told him if he ever gets any old farm equipment to give me a call. He said he cleans old farms up all the time and gets $14.00 per hundred pounds for steel. Said he just hauled an old tractor to the yard that had tracks on it, disks, potato diggers, cultivators, drills, you name it. He's been working a couple counties that were heavy ag in the 50s and 60s, now everybody's selling out. Maybe I'll be into some real old iron here for scrap prices. We'll see.

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Ron in Nebr

05-18-2008 10:12:06




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 Re: Interesting day here, Maybe a decent contact! in reply to scott#2, 05-17-2008 19:20:43  
Just be carefull of your dealings with the guy at first and make sure everything's on the up and up before you hand over any money or otherwise get involved.

I know they're not all like that, but from my experience, compared to scrap iron guys, the old-school horse traders and crooked used car salesmen are boy scouts. But then I might be biased too....never could bring myself to trust anyone who'd chop up a good antique anything and not think twice about it...

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antigoweld

05-18-2008 06:10:43




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 Re: Interesting day here, Maybe a decent contact! in reply to scott#2, 05-17-2008 19:20:43  
My local junk yard was paying $300+ a ton for scrap.

I have a good friend in the railcar dismantling business and he was getting closer to $400 a ton.
Scrap has dropped now for a few weeks since everyone and their mother began torching.



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poorfarmall 1

05-18-2008 03:20:52




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 Re: Interesting day here, Maybe a decent contact! in reply to scott#2, 05-17-2008 19:20:43  
what state?



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scott#2

05-18-2008 05:42:28




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 Re: Interesting day here, Maybe a decent contact! in reply to poorfarmall 1, 05-18-2008 03:20:52  
Im in Md. Now that I think about it, 14 per 100lbs sounds a little high for scrap steel. I remember it being somewhere around that number for a ton. Maybe he's blowing smoke so I'll pay way above what the real scrap price is. Anyone know what scrap steel is worth these days?

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HENRY E NC

05-18-2008 08:30:40




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 Re: Interesting day here, Maybe a decent contact! in reply to scott#2, 05-18-2008 05:42:28  
$14 a hundred is 308 a ton. He is probably right on but you can save him the cost of recovery and hauling so maybe he will cut you some slack. Henry



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JT

05-18-2008 07:37:04




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 Re: Interesting day here, Maybe a decent contact! in reply to scott#2, 05-18-2008 05:42:28  
I hauled a bunch of junk lawn mowers in 3 weeks ago, not sorted, just complete junk, with tires, seats, all, got $190 a ton first load, $180 a week later. Heard clean steel was between 4-600 a ton. Jim



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