scrape yards

Bspauld · Mar 29, 2011

It was brought up here a while ago about old tractors being scraped out and some wondered if any were stolen. In our small town you have to give positive IDs and a fingerprint before they weigh your load. In the bigger town south of us the cops have been stationed at the scrape yard and you need proof the scrape your selling is yours, I would suppose it would be hard to prove where all the scrape comes from but they sure know who brought it in. They both had a lot of problems with stolen stuff comming in

BCnT · Mar 29, 2011

i guess i need to start taking pictures of that red stained dirt under the piles of "inheritance" my family left me thats absolutely too far gone to use...before any of the saviours start squawkin...if you want to pay scrap value on corrugated that was rusted out when it was hauled up here 40 years ago,come get it.

Bspauld · Mar 29, 2011

usually a thief wouldnt want something like that. A neighbor had a barn that he wasnt using,Someone came in and took all the waterers and stanchions and copper wire .Another neighbor had several old parts to JDs taken ,heads, flywheels,steel wheels ECT. It can make a grown man almost cry to see good tractors in the scrape,but if they are yours then its no ones business but your

mkirsch · Mar 29, 2011

It's a pretty big challenge to steal an entire tractor for scrap. You need a big truck with a winch, and quite a bit of time to get the tractor up on the truck without being discovered.

That's a lot of up-front money for a limited high-risk payout. I can't imagine it's very common right now.

Oh, I've read about scrappers raiding abandoned farms, but most farms are not abandoned and so remote that nobody's ever around.

Copper is a much easier target. You're concealed in the basement of a house, and it takes a lot less weight to equal a worthwhile payout. A couple hundred pounds of scrap steel is worth maybe a pack of smokes, while the same amount of copper will buy a couple weeks worth of groceries.

Plus, a big truck with a stolen tractor on it looks like a big truck with a stolen tractor on it. A car full of stolen copper looks like a car...

Will- Tx.-Mn. · Mar 29, 2011

Bspald,

I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering where it is you are speaking of "your small town" it has been brought up here before that none of us here on this forum are "Mind readers"

So would you care to "enlighten us" where it is that you are speaking of??

~Will

Jim in Ma. · Mar 29, 2011

That could be hard to prove - I have owened 4 Farmall Cubs a Kubota and 2 Deeres for well over 10 years. I have no paperwork , No way on this earth I could prove their mine.

Spook · Mar 29, 2011

We had a huge excavator stolen here in Howell, Michigan a couple years ago. The guys loaded it up in broad daylight. 2 days later, the real owners showed up. Never caught the thieves. Not a bunch of scrappers, imho.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 29, 2011

Now, in Georgia scrap steel is $12.50 (or more] per hundred lbs.,so where you are,either scrap is awful cheap,or smokes are awful high.

"A couple hundred pounds of scrap steel is worth maybe a pack of smokes"

If smokes are $10.00 a pack,that would make steel $5.00 per hundred

Scott 730 · Mar 29, 2011

Scrape yard?? The only scrape yards around here is when the deer are in rut.

Jg20601 · Mar 29, 2011

Here around DC they were stealing bulldozers and backhoes right off the street...they get them started, drive around the corner and up on a trailer and I have heard of people losing tractors and implements to theft... someone tried to start my Farmall... so when I fix the starter it will be blocked in and locked up. My implement yard is difficult to get a truck into so I thin they are safe

Bspauld · Mar 30, 2011

I didnt notice the misspelling untill this morning, need spell check I guess

Bspauld · Mar 30, 2011

I'm in southwestern Michigan, Battle Creek is south of me

mkirsch · Mar 30, 2011

(quoted from post at 17:04:42 03/29/11) Now, in Georgia scrap steel is $12.50 (or more] per hundred lbs.,so where you are,either scrap is awful cheap,or smokes are awful high.

"A couple hundred pounds of scrap steel is worth maybe a pack of smokes"

If smokes are $10.00 a pack,that would make steel $5.00 per hundred

Smokes are pushing $10 a pack here in NY, that's for sure.

$12.50 per 100 isn't what the buyers are paying. That's what they're selling it for.

If they think you're shady, they might give you $8 per 100.

Even if you do get the full $12.50, that's a whopping $25. How much gas did you waste running out to East Timbuktu and back for your 200lbs of snatch-n-grab scrap steel?

After your pack of smokes you've got enough cash left for 4 gallons of gas.

There are certainly people trying to "make a living" like this, but they're idiots. They don't realize they're not making any money at it.

Bspauld · Mar 30, 2011

If they take your fingerprints and copy your drivers license,or state ID they at least have proof on who you are, The local scrap yard told me that several young men have come in with a load and find out what they have to do to sell it,just back up and leave, But by then the police have been alerted

Mike (WA) · Mar 30, 2011

That's the trouble with spell check- "scrape" is a word, too, and it was spelled correctly. Spell check would have skipped right over it.

massey333 · Mar 30, 2011

If you want to steal a tractor and know what it is,you only need 30 to 60 seconds to start and drive it off.With the amount of farmers running 24-7,no one will hardly notice a tractor+ imp.going down the road at midnight or later unless it is a neighbors that you would reconize.95%or better go that way and loaded some distance away.Moet of what I'am saying is going for resale or parted out and not junk yards.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 30, 2011

I dug up the ticket where I sold scrap on March 10 th. The price was $12.50 per hundred,that is what they paid me.
Maybe they made an error,or maybe.............

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