New Project- motivation needed!

[rutwad]

Hey guys,

I think we (father and I) could really benefit from cleaning up our collected junk. I hear now is the time to sell. What price is being paid for scrap iron now?
I hear aluminum is $.80/lb. How many aluminum cans make a lb?
Copper prices? We have a little left, but 3 55 gal. drums of copper were recently stole. I'd like to have given them a few small pieces of brass to go with that copper...... !

[Treemonkey1000]

Most of the local druggies could probably tell you what that stuff goes for. I know that if you have cans don't have other aluminum scrap in there and you will get better prices. Copper is worth more if it is stripped down from coils or insulation.

[Defective]

Don't know for sure about American cans, but the pop cans around here run about 30 to the pound.

Also, a full size pickup bed filled to the rails with mostly crushed cans runs around 400 pounds.

[rutwad]

Originally Posted by Defective

Don't know for sure about American cans, but the pop cans around here run about 30 to the pound.

Also, a full size pickup bed filled to the rails with mostly crushed cans runs around 400 pounds.

WHEW, that alot of beer to drink. The $$$ wouldn't justify the hangover.

I was told cans were going for $.80.

[ScottAR]

A buddy that scraps tells me is 40-42 cans per pound.

[rutwad]

Originally Posted by ScottAR

A buddy that scraps tells me is 40-42 cans per pound.

So if you and I were both given correct info, each can is worth $.02. To bad we cannot still get $.05 for returning a bottle.

[davitk]

Originally Posted by rutwad

WHEW, that alot of beer to drink. The $$$ wouldn't justify the hangover.

I was told cans were going for $.80.

Let me know when you'd like to start, I will be right over

[Rio_Grande]

Car bodies 240 ton
Short Iron 250-320 depending on how far I drive and how much I have.
Couldn't tell on cans we dont mess with them.
Aluminum sheet is around .80
Aluninum rims 1.00 pound
Clean #1 copper 3.20 lb Clean #2 (what most folks have) 2.80

Those are my prices, I am a dealer so I would expect a little less.

Shop around get the best price. Some yards make as much as 300% on your steel, I come in around 50% and pay more than almost anyone around here.

I hear you on the stolen copper. I hat 4 cardboard pallets in a shop I used for a wherehouse. We often stockpile things until prices go up. It helps when we are slow. I lost about 15000.00 that night and spent the next week hoping they would come back and try to take the aluminum because like you I had some Lead I wanted to give them,,,, Hey it is worth .15 a pound,,, Who says I am not generous!!

Be carefull. It is lucurative but there are pit falls. Remember should you have someone come in and buy the steel from you in place, he has to make a living too.

Here everyone says " they are paying 240 a ton for it, so I will sell it for that to you in place" I usually reply with ok, then you plan to pay my loader, truck and equiptment payment along with the salires of my drivers,,, Toss in my salery and we got a deal!!

Good luck
Jeff

[Renze]

A local scrap trader pays 26 Eurocents per kg.
The guy he sells it to, pays 8 cents more, i just have to drive 25 km further...
So as long as i take big enough loads, it pays to do the driving...

My father stopped breeding hogs this year, so we have lots of it from old stables...

I assume i can get more, because the distances are shorter here, with a steel plant in IJmuiden, within 150 km. They dont need as much km to ship it to the ovens, which benefits me in the price i get.

whole electrical motors are about 50 eurocents per kg... copper was around 4 or 5 euro per kg...


In Holland the police is on the lookout for thieves that steal all copper wires from lightning deflector systems at night... the high scrap prices are a pain in the b*tt for many people, because they now have to secure their buildings even more... They have designed security alarms to go off when people get inside them... not when people rip the copper off it from the outside

[Renze]

Originally Posted by Rio_Grande

Be carefull. It is lucurative but there are pit falls. Remember should you have someone come in and buy the steel from you in place, he has to make a living too.

very true, i build trailers at work. There is a 25 to 35% price difference in net and gross pricing on axles, 5th wheels etcetera. When building a new one, you calculate net pricing, but for replacement, customers pay the gross price.

We simply cannot talk a half an hour to them, then spend 15 minutes to order it, have it in stock for a while, using the forklift to move it in and out of the storage shed, and have the administration send a bill, just for nothing !

Another thing is car garages:
My friend advised me a car garage of which he could only say good things: the guy worked for all major dealerships and brands, and now started his own business about 5 years ago.
He asks 35 Euro per hour. Major dealerships ask up to 70 euro per hour.
He said he didnt want to become dealer for any particular brand, because of the overhead costs involved: The Volvo dealer in town, has a multi million euro building, a large showroom with at least 15 brand new cars in there, and the worst part is: The interest on the building and 15 brand new car stock, they indirectly bill to me in their hourly workshop rates !!!

So, no way i'm going to a brand dealer and pay 50% (30 Euro) per hour of workshop labor extra, because they have a fancy showroom, which tells me absolutely nothing about the quality of the work being done in their repair shop !!