Scrap is up

enjenjo · May 05, 2009, 11:56:25 AM

Got $60 a ton for shred today. That three times what it was paying two months ago.

wayne petty · May 05, 2009, 01:33:45 PM

the scrap guys are picking up everything out here...

last week ... one of them took a wheel chair ramp from the front of a house... leaving the woman in the wheel chair stuck at home..

there are at least 20 people a day digging in the trash dumpster for my apartment building...

when i worked at the shop with the sleeping boss.. there were 5 to 10 trucks a day asking for scrap....

much of the scrap from the west coast ends up in los angeles harbor... ready to load into ships... to supply everybody else....

chimp koose · May 05, 2009, 02:14:23 PM

you mean my truck is now worth something?

tompeters · May 05, 2009, 02:59:39 PM

i was at the scrap yard here in akron and the prices last week were pretty low . alum. cans were 25 cents a pound and shredder scrap was $2.90 for 100 pounds ! i paid for the gas it took to get there and back. i will have to check this week cuz i did not take all the old rotors i have been saving since everything took a dive. maybe i can afford to mow the lawn more often now .

Crosley.In.AZ · May 05, 2009, 09:11:23 PM

kool, I can get more for my Crosley stuff now.

that also triples the value of my 1961 Dodge Lancer and if I fill up the gas tank ..... it would burn faster

38HAULR · May 05, 2009, 10:24:09 PM

Around 2007/2008, in Australia, scrap prices were through the roof, and people were even stealing copper wire from the railway system, then the prices slumped. Back in Jan I was around at my local car wrecker that is a side business to a metal recycler. These people were paying for complete derelict cars ,and for some years would take a car body for free. The guy told me that as the prices had slumped they would be getting close to actually charging for a derelict car disposal.........Frank.

tomslik · May 06, 2009, 04:24:39 AM

cool, i gotta get this taurus off my trailer this weekend...

48ford · May 06, 2009, 10:57:37 PM

This is no joke.
Some one took the floating dock and ramps off the toledo harbor light.
now this is 5 miles out in the lake,but it was worth some cash as it was all alluminium(spel)
This thing is or was 40foot X 3 foot, and no one has seen it,
price had to go up.
Russ

tomslik · May 08, 2009, 05:32:58 PM

Quote from: "tomslik"cool, i gotta get this taurus off my trailer this weekend...

70 bucks a ton (car body full of brake rotors+5000lb taurus wagon)