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So gas prices climbing steel not so much. Steel every where to be found, can leave it and come back it will still be there. So now time to get creative leave some shred items in place take prepared steel add to the pile I have in my truck go to the yard. Leave scrap yard go get the shred items I found add the sheet iron I have around here and back to the yard another day. Not goanna get rich this way, but if I bring more steel home to process the wife will kill me! LOL
Tin and wire is being buried because of the owners preference. Unprepared steel, #2, and #1 are being stockpiled. Since it is spread out over several farms, the wife does not see it.
My wife will return to the ranch for the first time in a year this summer. It will be a free for all, but she will return to the cabin within a month. Then it will be time to return to stockpiling and waiting for better prices. Best guess is 100 tons of iron in her pasture and round pen. The ace in the hole is the training of her 1/4 racing horse 3/4 quarter horse is complete. Ready for the barrels and poles.
In this world, hiding metal is easy. The challenge is finding the right time to sell.
I appreciate your posts and seeing how the other half lives but wire being buried??.......Is it not feasible to haul this in with other items?.........You are talking about copper wire??........If not copper probably not worth effort as far as you have to go......Thanks inquiring minds want to know
I suspect P76 means barbed wire. Most land parcels in SD used to have either 3-4 strand barbed wire around them. A lot fewer (mostly for those who had sheep) had "woven wire", a strand of barbed uptop and then a wire "panel" so the sheep couldn't crawl under them. I personally like hunting antelope in such pastures as they develop crawl under spots and act as a funnel (antelope won't even jump over the multi-strand barbed wire fence but perfer to crawl underneath).
Anyway, sorry for the off-tangent, but you start roping off 40, 80, 160 (or more) acres in individual parcels and there is a lot of steel wire strung. Even crop fields had such fencing because they tended to graze the stubble fields after harvest, especially corn, with cattle and sometimes hogs. Fast forward to today. A lot more cash grain farmers who have no need for miles of barbed wired fencing so the old fences come down and got rolled up, waiting for...??? Even now, a lot of expedient "pasture" is created by doing one strand of hot-wire electric than keeping a permanent fence.
As P76 alluded to, many, many tons of rolled up rusty old barbed wire fences are laying rolled up in many shelter belts or other "idle" land spots waiting for...??? The vast majority will never be used again.
makes sense we rarely see barbed wire here in the city
Dakotarog is correct. It is barb wire and woven wire strung throughout pastures. It only pays $ 25 a ton and it would be hard to load more than a ton on a trailer to haul. After being buried for decades in pastures, you cannot get the grass and dirt out of it, therefore the yard will not even take it. To the real recyclers here, this may sound awful. But for the realist, I charge by the hour to clean and bury it.
All copper is stockpiled for the future.
Hobo, it was not my intent to hijack your thread. You have the luxury of quick access to a yard, we have the luxury of room to stockpile. Different lifestyles with a common goal.
Oil has dropped a bit (barrel ) If you watch once it hits $60 $61 all sorts of optimism
Yet I notice as ISIS takes over territory Barrel price drops . My feeling is,they are not a part of OPEC and once they have new land . They sell lower then OPEC . You hear all these concepts But once ISIS took over new areas with access to sell oil
prices did go down from the start
Over all the worlds markets are twisted,
much is going on .
Now we sell scrap from our hard work and resources for less
the buyers over seas are now getting resources for less . If there is a way to keep it that way to those who benefit will keep it as such .
The yards adapt & have there product purchased at lower price to sell same as always.
Us scrappers are at the loss. In the past Steel paid well so selling CU was a casual deciding factor. Stockpiling CU is not the same for me now . CU AL is needed each week to compensate steels low selling price.
I sold 600lbs of shred i needed gone when i was on lunch from work today. I did go to the lowest paying yard but its thr closest to the shop also. Made a whole 26 bucks. Last year at this time it was almost twice that.