OT: Scrap Metal All Cleaned Up?

RBnSC · May 7, 2012

Talked to friend and neighbor scrap dealer last week and he says the amount coming in is down to a trickle.He has already done some laying off and thinking about doing something else. Have things slowed down where Yall are.
Ron

Super Trucker · May 7, 2012

Full speed ahead here in se mich. I would of thought with the hauling I 've done it would be done.

RayP(MI) · May 7, 2012

Still seeing pickup trucks and trailer loads going by here almost daily. We live on a back road that seems to get a bunch of the scrapper's traffic to the scrapyard. Probably still lots of it out there, probably harder to get to, harder to salvage... Easy stuff probably already gotten.

Mashbox · May 7, 2012

Local company layed off 30 employees last week due to the drop of of scrap being brought in.

Anonymous-0 · May 7, 2012

I dang near used up all my scrap iron building the sawmill. Sure glad I didnt get rid of that stuff before.

donjr · May 7, 2012

Heard price is dropping again.

Ron in NS · May 7, 2012

Is that because everything worth stealing has already been stolen? Or because lots of guys are patrolling their properties armed to the teeth?

hoof print · May 7, 2012

I sent 58,000 lbs to the scrapper two weeks ago. Still going strong in the south. I do think scraps going to fall pretty soon.

jiminct · May 7, 2012

out here in my neck of the woods, people are still getting caught stealing copper pipe and wire all the time. during my daily travels for work i have to go to suburban neighborhoods all the time, on garbage day it's a free for all for any piece of scrap or nickle can, they go quick. i always see some real beat up pickups towing just as shabby trailers around filled to the hilt with scrap.

ericlb · May 7, 2012

not much going on here i keep mine, for when i need to build or repair something, if you think you make money scrapping it, just wait untill you have to buy some to make something, the company hauled 6 semi loads off the plant but the stuff was not good for anything but what it weighed, coupe wrecked old trucks, a diamond reo from the '60's that just didnt have anything usable left on it ect

cumminspuller · May 7, 2012

Still going strong in Middle TN. I had heard about 4 months ago that it was going to drop. Around here yards were cleaning out. It dropped about $2/hundred. Picked right back up again. The yard I normally go to is packed again.

John M · May 7, 2012

Still rolling in the upstate. In fact there is a big place opening up just up the road from my job right now, doing some major work to get the RR in today, and have been modifying the parking lot and building to accept just about any kind of metal you have!! rumor has it they are doing more than metal, but I see no evidence of it!

Mike (WA) · May 7, 2012

Apparently still going strong here- some kid asked the life tenant on our other place if he could scrap a few things, she said OK- and he pretty much cleaned out her old house (which needs to be torn down anyhow)- also got some of our stuff in the process, but not much. May be having the sheriff look into it.

mark in boonville ny · May 7, 2012

i talked to a guy about about something and he said he knows some scrap dealer and told him scrap is sopposed to be going back up like it was 3 or 4 yrs ago. scrap has been up latly and it seems the past 2 times ive gone theres only about 10 scrapers there usually it was always a long a$$ line. 2 people were cought around here looking for copper and syphoning gas about a week ago. the were arrested 3 or 4 times the cop told us for doing that and they tried getting into our barn but we saw them and they started walking back down the road and our nighbor cop was out cruising around and found them and asked what they were doing they said walking to loose weight so he let them go and he took off to go see if he could find thier car and the cop told us who they were and everything.

larry from md. · May 7, 2012

Some guys like me are out planting a crop so they aint scrapping.

Tim(nj) · May 7, 2012

There isn't much around here anymore. Most all the 'junk collector' farms have been cleaned out, two auto salvage yards went out of business and totally cleaned up, others still in business have really thinned out inventory. 3 paper mills that closed over a decade ago have been or are in the process of being gutted of machinery. Even the local tourist railroad /museum cleaned up all of their unrestorable stuff and worn-out parts . . . Used to see empty wire corncribs standing all over . . . no more left except the few that still get filled in the fall. The neighbors yanked out 4 old greenhouse frames that had been abandoned for the past 30 years and pulled out all the old galvanized water pipe on the place with a trackhoe. I have some parts machines out back that have been picked over pretty well that will go soon, but it's only going to total 4 or 5 tons.

RBnSC · May 7, 2012

John,
Have You been to Charleston lately?
Ron

John M · May 7, 2012

Not for pleasure!!! Had to drive down to the docks over at Wando for a problem with a container, and to visit my docs at the medical university, but other than that I havent been down in 2 years. Planning a trip after Labor Day though. Ive got to try and find those ghosties on the Yorktown!!!

BigMarv1085 · May 8, 2012

I just sold a couple of tons of scrap, I got $13.50 a hundred.

Tim Barnes · May 8, 2012

JohnM. Do you do busy with the States Port Authority? My nephew works there in management, is the reason I asked. I'm heading down to Charleston this weekend to do a lil fishing if the weather permits. If I can, I will be visiting The Yorktown for the first time. Where's these ghosties onboard?
Thanks, Tim

Tim Barnes · May 8, 2012

Marv, that's about $1.50 more ton than what it is bringing here in S.C. We used to have an old sawmill next to my property. I sold it a longtime ago and it changed hands several times after I sold. There was a 20 year accumulation of scrap there, everything from worn out transmissions, old tin roofing to 1/2 of an old Ford P/U. I rode through the old mill site the other day and it's clean as a kitty's face. People used to bad to backup to a river or stream here and dump stuff, those spots are even picked clean now. I guess, if there is an upside to hard economic times, we are getting some eyesores cleaned up.

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