Huge load + Price list

Just thought I'd share my load I brought in and the prices, I'd love to hear what people are getting for prices. Theres a pic of all the nonferrous and than me standing on the truck taking a pic of trailer. It was loaded down to the ground and the hitch was hitting on large bumps. Used lots of straps though and it was a great load. $125/ton on steel so that was no good and copper was a little low.


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I'd have a grin on my face with $125 a ton for shred. Last I check here it was at $80...

wow. 125 is a lil low??? I got quoted $50 a ton this morning in reno!
that looks like a Sims metal management check. Am I right?

Wow thats really low. I thought it was low here....

and I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place too because its not really worth hauling to reno. But I have no place to sit on it. So its either haul it to reno(wear and tear on truck/trailer, extra gas etc) it becomes a wash at that point OR I can take it to a guy in Carson city and get like $25 a ton......... And that $50 a ton is MY price. I would hate to see what walkin price is......

I remember getting around 10 cents/ lb but now its down to 6, I couldn't imagine getting what you guys are. Copper really hit me hard this run though at $2-$2.30 I had over 100lbs and I really took a hit on it. Also I hate the way my yard sorts so I get close to nothing for insulated copper wire its like .40/lb so I'm going to find a new yard for nonferrous

still $150-$180 today but only a matter of time

It's still $0.05 per pound here ($100/Ton). But, it's a 250 mile round trip to my yard (Local ones won't take electronics/appliances). I'm praying that my engine gets in my truck soon, because I'm purging before it crashes any farther. The trailer's already loaded.

This is going to be a long ride!

If you have other yards close by I would definitely check out their prices. I have 5 yards within 20 miles of where I live and I pass most of them driving back and forth to work which is really nice. Each yard is different and have different requirements on how they want things processed.
I know prices have been dropping for everyone but your price list actually looks good compared to what I'm getting.

Devin- Didn't mean to you slam you with my whining about steel prices here. Looking at all your sorted materials, there's a lot of hard work involved. Enjoy that check!!!

Jimicrk and others will multiple yards within decent driving distance- I mean no disrespect but be thankful you all are in locations where you have such situations. For matador, gabrielservices, and myself, as well as others, its pretty much Hobson's Choice (the price offered or nothing) because there is only one yard close enough to drive to without taking a major undertaking. Even if I did have a large load of shred to take in (which I don't because of my limited storage area), driving another 200-250 miles would really need some penciling out to see if would be worth it. If a guy had a semi-load with heavy steel, it probably would be worth it but a pick-up & a trailer???

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Originally Posted by DakotaRog

Devin- Didn't mean to you slam you with my whining about steel prices here. Looking at all your sorted materials, there's a lot of hard work involved. Enjoy that check!!!

Jimicrk and others will multiple yards within decent driving distance- I mean no disrespect but be thankful you all are in locations where you have such situations. For matador, gabrielservices, and myself, as well as others, its pretty much Hobson's Choice (the price offered or nothing) because there is only one yard close enough to drive to without taking a major undertaking. Even if I did have a large load of shred to take in (which I don't because of my limited storage area), driving another 200-250 miles would really need some penciling out to see if would be worth it. If a guy had a semi-load with heavy steel, it probably would be worth it but a pick-up & a trailer???

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Believe me I'm very thankful. I can't imagine having to drive 200-250 miles to a scrapyard.

Jeez I hope that copper pricing doesn't make it up north! Still around 2.50-2.85 at my regular yard. I've been holding off on smashing some yokes for a while reading all the posts about copper dropping, but now I might just get it over with! I think I would cry if I only got $2/lb for it.

Just to clarify, I have a steel taking scrap yard 15 miles from me but to get a higher price than what they offered, it would probably be a 200-250 mile drive (don't know how far Devin's place is from here--metro Omaha??-would be 180+ miles) to get a noticeable difference in price.

If a yard was that far from me, I wouldn't even bother driving, I would just stockpile until they go up... But everyones in different situations so you gotta do what you gotta do

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Originally Posted by AdmiralAluminum

Jeez I hope that copper pricing doesn't make it up north! Still around 2.50-2.85 at my regular yard. I've been holding off on smashing some yokes for a while reading all the posts about copper dropping, but now I might just get it over with! I think I would cry if I only got $2/lb for it.

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If you are at 2.50-2.85 at your yard.......I would be turning every bit I could find. Kitco was showing 2.47 spot price today.

Devin's where's you yard located (town)? Do you know of the Nucor plant in Norfolk?? I suspect that's where your steel scrap is ending up. There's got to be a reason why your yard is 30+% higher than most in the Upper Missouri River states. Again, I didn't say I didn't have a close by yard only that their price is never that high ($115 a ton for shred last summer has been the best its been for me in the past 2 years). I really don't have an option here at the house to store much shred, at the bro's maybe. Ask Patriot 76 or Pjost the number of places they check out for selling. They probably know more places than I do but I don't think there's anyplace in the eastern Dakotas. western MN or nw Iowa that's going to set the shred world on fire for price...

just called our big scrap yard here in western chicago and they said 150-180 for a gross ton

seems much higher than what everyone else is seeing

does every yard go by 2240 lbs=gross ton?

You probably have end users in the area that your yard is selling directly to so they don't have as much transportation costs and may cut out another middleman as well.

Our yard calls it "NT" which I'm not sure exactly what it means but I think they use a straight ton and not some adjusted amount.

My yard goes by "NT" or Net Ton here in Denver...2000 pounds

Street price is getting close to the century mark.

Great load Devin!!!

A few questions:

1. Why is you receipt so long? I mean like there a 4 "Shreddables" listed on there. Also there are multiple listings for other categories.
2. What is all that insulated stuff in the pickup box? Copper tubing?

gross ton is 2240 lbs
net ton is 2000 lbs

I was wondering if some of these weights were form large scale and others on small scale....

Devin nice load and good job working that large load. I'm curious about the two classifications of # 2 copper, looks like they have two categories of #2, code numbers 1054 and 602 . Both paying the same at $2.06 (ouch), one was 48 Lbs. and the other 2 Lbs. Obvious that you had separated them prior to yard trip, what are the two different grades?

Those are a/c coils that just got stretched out, they come from the circular a/c units.

My yard has huge steel boxes in the yard and you drive up to them and a forklift brings them in when they are filled, I had like 5 boxes total and some were shred, aluminum, other stuff and than they weigh them on inside scale and dump it, so that explains why there are a bunch of each (multiple boxes)

And I go to alters metal recycling, they have tons of locations you can see on their website

Yeah, it looks like they're fairly big. Interesting their geographic concentrations. Too bad they don't give a price list (our local steel taking place doesn't either). The closest of these Alters places would be 100-150 miles away from here.

Still getting .07 a LB here. I have to drive about 50 miles round trip, or I get .04 a lb for the yard 7 miles from my house. The price difference is worth it for me. I've also pretty much stopped curb shopping as it's not really that sustainable for me anymore. I let the scrap come to me and I'm a lot more focused on making connections rather than wasting gas driving around for scrap that may or may not be there.

In 1972 iron was around 45 per ton. about $180 a ton puts us equal to 1970 prices figuring for valueless FED Dollars today. where does $50 a ton put us today.