Good Haul

Beat my old record of $120.

If I can break $100 per load I'll be happy.

110/ton on tin.. ouch! Getting 172/ton in central NY. Nice payday though!

Real tin is over $5 / LB ... I wonder why yards classify almost all sheet metal as tin ?

Used to be $150/ton last month.

I suspect that light steel got called "tin" in the yard industry because it sounds that way when it drops or gets moved a round. Heavy steel has a much more solid sound. Old customs die hard...

Jiffy, you should come out here and scrap light steel in the Dakotas. The only yard that takes steel in the biggest town in SD just dropped light steel to $90 a ton. As bad as that sounds to a lot of you, when I was in high school, scrap steel here was running only $12 a ton which comes out (1980 dollars converted to 2014 value) to $36+ a ton. Still a better deal than back then...

P.S. Here's a handy-dandy little calculator that figures out what different money values were worth then vs. now

1980 dollars in 2014 dollars

Here in Wyoming, unprepared light iron is $70/Ton.

Not a bad haul! I got $7 for my last load. That'll keep the lights on

I got $180/ton for shred last time I went in I had to switch yards to get it though. Love your yards ticket mine sucks... It labels stuff in size 10 font and only shows how much they pay ton so I have to calculate pound.