As has been widely reported scrap prices are really low right now. My local yard is 80 a ton for complete cars, 30 a ton for incomplete.
This Civic was worth a whopping 27 smackers.
As has been widely reported scrap prices are really low right now. My local yard is 80 a ton for complete cars, 30 a ton for incomplete.
This Civic was worth a whopping 27 smackers.
I took 2800# in on Saturday and was astounded at the $42.00 they laid on me; woohoo, paid for my gas!
It's not worth risking the potential tire damage driving through the scrapyard. 
I don't need any reminders. I had 2 chances today to get cars that were cheap and both owners refused to budge. I kindly told them that what I was offering was more than fair given the current market for scrap prices. One is going to be scrapped tomorrow (claims junkyard told him it will be valued in about $500 for scrap and the other is going to wait until scrap prices goes back up (how long will that take?).
I try to give my scrap steel to the minority family that comes by my house. He must be barely getting by.
I have another with the front end cut off, no interior and no suspension. It might be a better financial decision to just cut it up and throw it in the dumpster
I'm soooooo glad I found someone to haul away the dead cars when I did. The whole "cruising for scrap" model of self employment is dead.
i wish i had somewhere to sit on my scrap without pissing off the neighbors. would love to hang onto it and wait for it to come back up, but who knows how long it'll be.
i literally made thousands picking up scrap 4 winters ago, made 7 straight house payments going out 3 nights a week when it was between 11-13 cents a pound.
the biggest shame in nobody going out to pick up the scrap for cash is that all that recyclable material might end up in the landfill. i drove past a few appliances and a hot water tank today that were not worth the back pain.
Woody is spot on...not worth the risk, but at some point, it's necessary to move that junk.
Hauled a cut up MX-5 a few weeks ago...covered the gas,lunch, and a few beers
I have three 5 gallon buckets of stripped copper to be recycled.. I just finished the stripping when the market fell out. I am going to sit on them a while.
Good news is, nobody is asking to "take that old boat" out of my yard anymore.. the 1500# of lead is not worth the effort
In reply to mad_machine:
FIFTEEN HUNDRED POUNDS OF LEAD? Where are you?
stroker wrote: In reply to mad_machine: FIFTEEN HUNDRED POUNDS OF LEAD? Where are you?
He found an amazingly cheap house in Chernobyl, it just needed a little shielding...
heee.. it's called ballest.. sailboats usually have a big chunk of it near their very bottom.. some have concrete and some have steel... but most have lead
I haven't done too well the last couple times I went to the scrap yard.
The unfortunate thing is that my father just started talking about scrapping the combine that has been taking up an extraordinary amount of good indoor parking space for the last 30 years. He hasn't been able to get it to run in a while, and moving it under it's own power may actually make the thing more dangerous to transport. It needs to go somewhere but I'm not sure if it's worth the time and risk of tetanus to cut it up in place.
In reply to WilD:
They have combine demolition derbies. Just sayin'.
In reply to Appleseed:
Also, depending what it is, people might still be looking for parts. I know a few guys still using pull behinds and a 2 row new idea picker on their Oliver for silage.
Im dropping this off at lunch. Place your bets on whatnits worth ladies and gentlemen!
Our local scrap yard stopped serving the public in August. I guess it wasn't worth their time to weigh the material and make 'change'. Sir, here is your $1.92.
In reply to logdog:
$15
$12.95
$17.98
20 even
20.75
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