Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
So we have picked up a total of 15000lbs of lead from a client/friend of ours within the past couple years. And on monday we picked up another 7500lbs. I forgot to snap a picture of mondays load but they looked nearly identical to the first load he brought us. Talk about a good payday for less then two hours time from purchase to sale.
My 4 S's
S**T, Shower, Shave...and Scrap
What was the lead from?
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They were all from wheel weights. This guy has some wheel weights. I actually asked to take a picture of all the ones he still has, but he said he would rather me not and I respected his wishes. But let me tell you....There are gaylords involved.
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How much did you pay for that load?
YOSF (You Only Scrap Forever)
YOLO (You Only Live Once)
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There a lot of folks on this forum paying around $1 a pound for wheel weight ingots. Might be an opportunity for you there.
http://www.gunloads.com/castboolits/...splay.php?f=18
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
We paid .43/lb for it but also picked it up, so it was 3225.00.
And man at a 1.00/lb we could have made 4200 bucks rather than our 1500. But heck a quick turnaround aint to bad either.
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looks the lead ballast in submarines !!
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What? Who is paying $1 a lb. for lead? Send them my way...I can provide them with 10 tons a month at $1 a lb.
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If I can find someone paying a buck a pound for lead I'm going to go to the local "unoffical" shooting range and start running all the sand from the backstops through a screen!
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Who pays $1 a pound? Go to the link in my 1st post. There are a lot of good folk over there that would be happy to provide you with a secondary market for your lead. I encourage you to check the forum out, lots of good info and nice people.
Bill
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I doubt the scrapper that had 40,000 lbs would be looking for a market. For those that find lead "occasionally" this could be a way to sell them at a better price than the yard pays.Originally Posted by Kris Kringle
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I thought .50 per bl. was good, I will check out the link but idk if it would be worth shipping unless they pay for shipping.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Check out ebay as well if you want to see people paying $1 per pound for lead. In some completed listings people are paying about 1.15 per pound!
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I normally just scrap E waste but I did come across 200 pounds of lead ingots and scrap pieces. What is an average price at a Yard? I also came across 2600 lbs of lead barriers used with radioactive material. Keep in mind the barriers are NOT hot, the radioactive material can not penetrate lead. The 4 pieces are no bigger than a 5 gallon bucket. would they be as valuable as the ingots? When someone said$0.50/lb that really got my attention.
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My yard is buying clean soft lead today for $0.54 a lb.
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