ML112 FEL Mystery Question

[MtnViewRanch]

With scrap steel??? Oh come on now Ed!!! You'll have me out looking for junk cars soon.

Dougster

There's biiiiig money in junk cars. You ever know an owner of a junk yard that was poor?

 

[civesnedfield]

With scrap steel??? Oh come on now Ed!!! You'll have me out looking for junk cars soon.

Dougster

Doug $.0924 per pound. That's $180.00 + per ton. That makes your old ARE worth about $450.00 in scrap. More than you would get if you tried to sell it. If you ever saw the numbers we generate from scrap every year you would freak. Of course this is from drops, we buy material in stock lenghts, cut out what we can to minimize waste then sell what's left over as scrap. Let's just say you could live on Lobsta and Fillet everyday from what wwe scrap.

 

[Dougster]

If you ever do get a hydraulic self leveling loader on anything, be sure that you can turn it off and on. Now that would be nice. Kubota has that option on the M series I believe.

I guess I thought that all of the hydraulic ones could be turned on or off... no???

Dougster

 

[Dougster]

There's biiiiig money in junk cars. You ever know an owner of a junk yard that was poor?

Some people now consider my house lot a junk yard of sorts... and I am DIRT poor.

Dougster

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Naaa he is not in a funny mood today. Up by us scrap is scrap. It all goes to the same place and they pay us the same for chunks to shavings.

Out here in the west, they figure that you have contaminates in the shavings, so they short you a few pennies per pound.

 

[Dougster]

Doug $.0924 per pound. That's $180.00 + per ton. That makes your old ARE worth about $450.00 in scrap. More than you would get if you tried to sell it. If you ever saw the numbers we generate from scrap every year you would freak. Of course this is from drops, we buy material in stock lenghts, cut out what we can to minimize waste then sell what's left over as scrap. Let's just say you could live on Lobsta and Fillet everyday from what wwe scrap.

Steel prices are clearly out of control. All just so a certain steel fab guy with a 4530 sitting unused up in Maine can eat Lobsta and Fillet Mignon every night of the week!

Dougster

 

[civesnedfield]

Out here in the west, they figure that you have contaminates in the shavings, so they short you a few pennies per pound.

We use to have that problem. We have since swiched to an enviormently friendly lubricant for drilling. This was done by the request of the DEP since our shop sits on the bank of the Kennebec River. So now the shavings are considered #1 scrap.

 

[civesnedfield]

Steel prices are clearly out of control. All just so a certain steel fab guy with a 4530 sitting unused up in Maine can eat Lobsta and Fillet Mignon every night of the week!

Dougster

I told you I was going to be nice to you today, but if you keep this up the gloves will have to come off. Don't blame me for high steel prices. It has something to do with entrepenures (I know I can't spell) selling all of our scrap to China or where ever a couple of years ago. It drove steel prices thru the roof and they have not come down since.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Some people now consider my house lot a junk yard of sorts... and I am DIRT poor.

Dougster

Ah, come on. Did you run out of the chunky peanut butter? Go have dinner, you will feel a little better, I hope.

Actually you might need to come up with a new description of your financial position. At the cost of dirt these days, I wish that I was selling some.

 

[civesnedfield]

Ah, come on. Did you run out of the chunky peanut butter? Go have dinner, you will feel a little better, I hope.

Actually you might need to come up with a new description of your financial position. At the cost of dirt these days, I wish that I was selling some.

Brian,
I never thought of it that way. If he has that much dirt, and he is still eating peanut butter, I think we should start calling him skinflint or something of that nature.