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O/T- make your scrap run NOW

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dds-inc

04-20-2007 21:12:31




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Hauled in to the scrap yard about 4 copper truck radiators, 6 broken aluminum wheels, about 500 pounds of stripped copper wire, 150 pounds of house water copper pipe, and a few pieces of aluminum stock.

Made well over 2 grand for my trailer load of stuff.

next week I am helping a farmer with a whole wrecked aluminum trailer to haul out to the yard, with a few thousand feet of aluminum wire as well.

It is highly advisable that you find all of your copper and aluminum laying around and sell it for scrap... these guys are pulling out thousands of dead presidents for your junk!!

about 4 Perfectly good looking cars that did not sell were driven in to the scrap yard today, with most of them still running as the excavator loaded them on the crusher. They'd leave the lug nuts loose and take the aluminum wheels off and get paid premium prices for the wheels.

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Randy Losey

04-23-2007 12:16:44




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 Re: O/T- make your scrap run NOW in reply to dds-inc, 04-20-2007 21:12:31  
I was just at a scrap yard in Co. Springs Sat. The cars 120.00 ton, Copper 2.40 lb. and someone before I got there hauled in a Allis B, 460 LP, and Farmall M. The M and 460 were just finished up being cut to pieces when I arrived and the owner was keeping the little Allis. I was sick to my stomach the rest of the day.



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dan hill

04-24-2007 02:42:40




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 Re: O/T- make your scrap run NOW in reply to Randy Losey, 04-23-2007 12:16:44  
This proves theres a fool born every second.A ford tractor that brings 150.00 for scrap could have been sold for 2000.00.Be careful about selling scrap.I remember seeing brand new steel stock laying in a scrap yard that came from a machine shop that closed.I bought a lot of square and round stock for little money.Another fellow bought a lot of stock to build a saw mill.My first welder came from a junk yard for 10.00.It needed a simple repair and is still working 50 years later.

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rrlund

04-22-2007 12:21:33




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 Re: O/T- make your scrap run NOW in reply to dds-inc, 04-20-2007 21:12:31  
Somebody went to the local lumber yard last summer,bought all the copper wire they had on hand,scrapped it and got $200 more that he paid. Got that straight from my daughter in laws father who works at the lumber yard.



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Bryan In Iowa

04-21-2007 17:41:39




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 Re: O/T- make your scrap run NOW in reply to dds-inc, 04-20-2007 21:12:31  
"Urban Mining " thieves took all the copper pipes out of school near here under construction . It's real bad in DesMoines, lot of house's won't have plumbing or wiring in till they can be locked up . Sister had coupel hundred pounds of copper in back of pickup, was headed to scrapyard , "miners " beat her to it and took it right out of her truck one night . Soap Box derby track had some real nice new aluminum bleachers ,yep, got all the benches robbed . i have heard guard rails , railroad rails being scraped . Scary

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Windy in Kansas

04-21-2007 10:01:40




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 Re: O/T- make your scrap run NOW in reply to dds-inc, 04-20-2007 21:12:31  
Scrap is indeed high. Had a car stolen about 10 days ago and has probably been through the crusher by now.

Sad as it had a good engine and transmission that I was going to remove and reuse after our weather settled down.



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37 chief

04-21-2007 07:26:55




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 Re: O/T- make your scrap run NOW in reply to dds-inc, 04-20-2007 21:12:31  
I don't know why you guys get so much more for scrap. I sold 17 ton of already cut up iron (short iron) and got only 75.00 a ton. This is in Calif. Stan



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Eric SEI

04-21-2007 18:48:08




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 Re: O/T- make your scrap run NOW in reply to 37 chief, 04-21-2007 07:26:55  
One of the local scrapyards toward Cincinnati is advertising $120/
ton for cars with title. I think you're being ripped off.



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msb

04-21-2007 06:12:18




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 Re: O/T- make your scrap run NOW in reply to dds-inc, 04-20-2007 21:12:31  
Yea, its so valuable thieves have gotten into the business. They are even stealing air conditioners from occupied homes with the residents still inside in Indianapolis.Stripping aluminum siding too. And the answer some libs have is to take away our guns.



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doogdoog

04-21-2007 00:42:09




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 Re: O/T- make your scrap run NOW in reply to dds-inc, 04-20-2007 21:12:31  
Aloha, Yep, all going to China.

Mahalo,
doogdoog



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Davis In SC

04-20-2007 21:37:08




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 Re: O/T- make your scrap run NOW in reply to dds-inc, 04-20-2007 21:12:31  
I made a run to the scrapyard yesterday.. Just some odds and ends.. the check was about twice what I expected to get... #1 Copper was $2.60/lb, Brass $1.55, Aluminum .75...



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