i knew prices were getting up there for steel, but didn't realize how crazy they were getting until i saw an ad in the paper this week from one of the local scrap yards offering $205 a ton for cars! highest price ever. that makes it tempting to haul in the old ford van that i use for a parts hauler, at almost 3 tons, it's now worth more as scrap than it is as a running vehicle. i don't know what the yards are getting paid for the steel to be able to pay that kind of money, but it's gotta be enough to make a profit, so watch the yards, our parts cars are getting to be pretty valuable to the scrappers! so, what's the situation in your area?
last week at the place we haul crushed cars to by dallas tx. they were up to 175.00 which is a record price for us down in texas. we are crushing cars as fast as we can right now. but don't worry i'm only smashing new shit boxes.
Geez.. I crushed one a week or so ago and it was only $55 a ton. Mixed scrap here goes for $65/ton, but gets better if separated.
Friend of mine brought in a pickup box full of misc. sheetmetal and got $170/ton. I've got a few cars in my yard that need to get squashed, nice that it's up there in price. Of course that also means that a lot of old cars and junkyards are going to be crushing out fast.
always curious how this worked- if you take a car to the pick and pull lot they give you $100. I thought you had to be in the scrapping business to get that price, I mean, do a LOT of volume, truck loads full. How do you get that price on individual vehicles? I got a dead 4 ton Ford work truck out back............
after retireing I became a scraper. or as a friend said I was in the precious metal buss. Last week in north alabama I sold cars for $9.10 per one hundred weight. Cast was 6.00 per one hund, Prepared steel 6.75 white goods 7.60 a 1 hundred, no 1 copper 2.45 no 2 is 2.10 a lb. alum rad clean 50 cent lb. cast alum 55 c a lb. so in war time the price is always up. look at the history of scrap prices. It will drop when we pull out of Irak. I am hauling all that I had hid back and am keeping all the good stuff. I have also bought several cars while in line before they went to the crusher. I had to save them.. I hope this info helps.. Bobby..
Getting strong here in the Northwest as well. I own a scrapyard here in Tacoma Wa. I am loading containors of scrap, Fob the dock at 295 a net ton. There is a lack of material flow. The biggest problem is our U.S. steel makers did not keep the flow of scrap coming in after the new year. Most of the cut grade scrap went to Turkey, Korea, and China. This left a huge void here in the U.S.. They are trying to back feed that loss of cut grade scrap with shredded. Shredded scrap is from appliances and cars and other misc light guage scrap. But the big factor is that shredded scrap has alot of heavy iron in it now because here in the last few years the market has been very good and most of the shredder yards in our country have upgraded thier shredders to mega shredders and the cut grade scrap in being fed into that stream, making a heavier shredded product. Sorry so long. It is just what I do everyday. I have scene a lot of old yards go away here in the last three years and is sucks! I have tried to do what I can, but you can't save it all. Just my thoughts! Steve
A couple of weeks ago, I was at the scrap yard getting a FE flywheel and bell. Guy came in with an late 40's pickup cab on a trailer, I dropped what I was doing and tried to get to him before they grabbed it with the big assed magnet, I didn't get there in time. From the two sides I saw (driver and rear) the cab was nearly perfect. Stevo
Was in a Garrett's Recycling Yard in Paducah, KY this moring (droppin off my beer can collection... 36#' @ .60 cents a #..don't laugh.. it netted me $22.00).... Grabbed a price list...scrap cars are bringin $140 a ton...apparently they aren't raising the paying price around here...
i think the booming chinese economy has more to do with the price of scrap than the war does. we ain't building any new tanks for the war.
Dropped off a Ford escort at the local pick a part yard last Saturday and they are paying $200 for a complete cars.
Here in El Paso grade 1 Al extrusion is 60 cents, old sheet Al is 45 cents, #1 copper is $2.00 a lb. Not sure what steel is but I have a couple of cars to cut up after I finish picking them (don't worry, they are wrecked Fiats)
I just had a scrap 83 caprice hauled away by a scrapper,he paid me 225.00 and came and got it here in Cleveland Ohio
sorta the same sorta diffrent i went to buy a drop of 3x3x3/8 stainless angle. 27"long guess how much they wanted? $45 just shy of 2 bucks and inch
FYI also keep the catalytic converters seperate,a mid sized GM cat will bring about $90 here just by itself, there's big money in cats,they're taking the platinum out to make grills for rappers
In Kalamazoo, Michigan, we are getting $225.00 a ton for scrap metal. Just today I bought a bunch of steel from Alro. Believe it or not, 1" square x 1/8" wall is $1.14 a foot. I can remember paying $2.00 for a 12 foot stick not that long ago.
HOLY SHIT!!!! Thats crazy talk! We need those prices. Houston "Rose Steel" 3/14/07 $140 ton thats #3 so carbodies and what not not. Kansas City 3/9/07 $125 for #3
Paying the locals 60-70 T ca for cars. I heard the US drivers are getting much better prices here. The local shredder can't keep up and we lost 2 of our better pic-a-part yards because of stockpiling.
I just too a bunch of stuff today, a couple 2bbl FE intake manifolds (80# each), a late 80's Chevy pickup hood, an Isuzu Amigo rear end and axles, a cut up shopping cart, some chain link fencing, posts and top rail, a Fox body stock K member, lower control arms and the steering rack, pretty clean metal so far, until you add in the 3 washers and dryers, I think that knocked me down a category, I got $4 per hundred weight ($80/ton), and I had to unload it myself, by myself, which sucked. I've only been about 3 times, but they used the big magnet to unload it every time before. $67.20 total, wasn't hardly worth the effort, took about an hour and a half, in the gate to out the gate. One cool thing, my homeowners association has an mass email for the members and I put out a call for anyone wanting to get rid of any metal scrap, that's how I got the fencing and appliances. Probably doubled my weight, got stuff from the president and a board member, maybe they'll overlook my illegal project cars and general debris a while longer without fines.
The general price here in Wichita, KS is $140.00 per ton on scrap cars. China seems to be driving up metal prices right now.
Cars have been bouncing in the $175-225 per net ton range for almost two years around here. I scrapped my running '93 Crown Vic PI that only needed a water pump and the 2 idler pulleys to be put back on the road last summer. By the time I figured in the cost of the parts vs what stuff I could keep from it and what it was worth as a used car...about $500, the crusher seemed like the smartest way to go. Jan Jan
hey ray, you are right about the chinese economy, its booming... with a population in the billions the country is starving for resources. a lot of money is circulating in and out of there. im sure some of you have heard storys about entire villages and towns being relocated in the name of progress, it is more sinister than it sounds. heres one from last week, the guy didnt want to leave his home, so the construction company dug around the building. the metal that will be supporting the new mega shopping mall going in its place will have some of our tin in there. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2237937.html?menu=
China buying our junk iron reminds of an old man I worked for. He was telling a certain country was buying all the steel here they could before WW2, he said he even sold rusty barbed wire off the farm. He said a few years later they were shooting that barbed wire back at him in the Pacific. He has passed away since our talks but I still can hear him laugh about it. Makes me think about whats happening now and what happened then.
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