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Hay guys I recently got about a lot amount of fencing mostly cattle fencing and barb wire and chicken wire etc etc. There is a 2 car garage full of it in my barn. How much do you think that will pay at a scrap yard? I can not say weight because I do not know and that is covering the ground not going stacked or anything.
Around here they are paying $ 20 a ton for tin and fencing. It is only worth the time if you want to clean the place up. Wire is hard to bury and I do it as a community service because of positive referrals it provides. BTW, fencing is the hardest to load and you cannot get any weight for the space it requires. Even if you roll the wire and flatten panels, your limited in the weight.
You might want to call the yard and make sure they will accept that. The yard I go to will not take barbed wire.
Agreed. Seems any chain link fencing I see at scrapyards is always separate. Never asked, but my thoughts are the shredder doesn’t like it. Maybe gets wrapped up vs. being shred up. Other types of fencing, as above, might do the same. Just guessing.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimicrk
Now that you mention it, the yards I use are reluctant to take it from the general public. To get around this it can be stored inside of car bodies. Most yards that I am aware of will accept it in this form if they crush the car bodies.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimicrk
Regardless it is a pain in the butt and if you are doing it for the environment, you take the good with the ugly.
My yard takes fence no problem. Pays shred rate. Check is cut with 30% "dirt and debris" deduct, though.
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Any wire, fencing, copper coated wire, barbwire, chain link fence, or anything of that nature, $20 a ton. Must be sorted from any other tin, or it will all be paid at that price.
However, there is a few select people, myself included, that can get shred price for wire if I let them know at the scale that I have wire on the load, and it is less than 30% of the load, then when I unload, they use the grapple to remove the wire from the shred pile and place in a separate pile to be bailed, not shredded. The wire gets tangled up in the shredder and causes downtime. They bale it in approximately one ton bails and haul it away separate than the rest of the tin/shred/appliances. If you put wire in car bodies, you only get $20/ton for the car body. If I took a load of mostly wire, then it it $20/ton. So as I get wire, I try to mix a little in with every load.
However, it you can cut in into sections about a foot squared, and press it together, they may buy as short steel. I have a buddy that works at the scrap yard, and he will use the cutter to cut it up for me in the downtime. I can pull in with a 16 foot trailer full, weigh, and unload. I leave metal t posts mixed with it. When he gets time he will cut it all up for me, then I can go back and pick up my ticket and go to ATM for my money. This can take a couple hours up to 2-3 days, depending on when he gets time. Then I slip him a $50 or so and everyone is happy😁