40Kchicks
Gold Member
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2003
- Messages
- 489
- Location
- Western Oregon
- Tractor
- 2003 Kubota M9000DTL 2001 JD 2252 Orchard Tractor Cat 216 Skidsteer 1999 JD 450H Dozer 1994 JD 644G wheel loader
Way back when, my chicken farm was a egg layer operation. Later it was converted to raising broilers. All the cages and feed equipment were just thrown out in the field and broiler equipment was installed in the barns. The next owner cleaned up the place by stacking all the metal junk in a pile. Then he added to the pile by doing some more updates to the barns. Then when I bought the place I completely tore everything out of the barns and replaced all the electrical and equipment with new stuff. Again the metal pile grew. Now I have a metal mountain out in the back 40.
Last year I finally got caught up with chicken updates enough to start thinking about the acreage. I tried to get the local recyclers interested in it but the best I could do was to get them to drop off a box which I would have to load at a cost of $75 a picked up box. It was going to take lots of boxes and work so I put it off.
This last week some recyclers came by and offered me $10 a ton and they will come with a loader and I don’t have to do anything except cash the check. They figure it will be about 30 to 40 tons of scrap. So my procrastination has paid off this time. As soon at the ground dries up it out of here.
Hopefully the high price of steel will be temporary but if you have scrap laying around, making your place not look so nice it may be the right time to clean it up and get paid to do it or have someone come out like I am.
Sorry about not having a picture. I’ll try to get one in the next couple of days.
Eric
Last year I finally got caught up with chicken updates enough to start thinking about the acreage. I tried to get the local recyclers interested in it but the best I could do was to get them to drop off a box which I would have to load at a cost of $75 a picked up box. It was going to take lots of boxes and work so I put it off.
This last week some recyclers came by and offered me $10 a ton and they will come with a loader and I don’t have to do anything except cash the check. They figure it will be about 30 to 40 tons of scrap. So my procrastination has paid off this time. As soon at the ground dries up it out of here.
Hopefully the high price of steel will be temporary but if you have scrap laying around, making your place not look so nice it may be the right time to clean it up and get paid to do it or have someone come out like I am.
Sorry about not having a picture. I’ll try to get one in the next couple of days.
Eric