River metels recycling, Somerset ky.

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😁