Higer gas prices and steel steel sucks

So gas prices climbing steel not so much. Steel every where to be found, can leave it and come back it will still be there. So now time to get creative leave some shred items in place take prepared steel add to the pile I have in my truck go to the yard. Leave scrap yard go get the shred items I found add the sheet iron I have around here and back to the yard another day. Not goanna get rich this way, but if I bring more steel home to process the wife will kill me! LOL

Tin and wire is being buried because of the owners preference. Unprepared steel, #2, and #1 are being stockpiled. Since it is spread out over several farms, the wife does not see it.

My wife will return to the ranch for the first time in a year this summer. It will be a free for all, but she will return to the cabin within a month. Then it will be time to return to stockpiling and waiting for better prices. Best guess is 100 tons of iron in her pasture and round pen. The ace in the hole is the training of her 1/4 racing horse 3/4 quarter horse is complete. Ready for the barrels and poles.

In this world, hiding metal is easy. The challenge is finding the right time to sell.

I suspect P76 means barbed wire. Most land parcels in SD used to have either 3-4 strand barbed wire around them. A lot fewer (mostly for those who had sheep) had "woven wire", a strand of barbed uptop and then a wire "panel" so the sheep couldn't crawl under them. I personally like hunting antelope in such pastures as they develop crawl under spots and act as a funnel (antelope won't even jump over the multi-strand barbed wire fence but perfer to crawl underneath).

Anyway, sorry for the off-tangent, but you start roping off 40, 80, 160 (or more) acres in individual parcels and there is a lot of steel wire strung. Even crop fields had such fencing because they tended to graze the stubble fields after harvest, especially corn, with cattle and sometimes hogs. Fast forward to today. A lot more cash grain farmers who have no need for miles of barbed wired fencing so the old fences come down and got rolled up, waiting for...??? Even now, a lot of expedient "pasture" is created by doing one strand of hot-wire electric than keeping a permanent fence.

As P76 alluded to, many, many tons of rolled up rusty old barbed wire fences are laying rolled up in many shelter belts or other "idle" land spots waiting for...??? The vast majority will never be used again.

Dakotarog is correct. It is barb wire and woven wire strung throughout pastures. It only pays $ 25 a ton and it would be hard to load more than a ton on a trailer to haul. After being buried for decades in pastures, you cannot get the grass and dirt out of it, therefore the yard will not even take it. To the real recyclers here, this may sound awful. But for the realist, I charge by the hour to clean and bury it.

All copper is stockpiled for the future.

Hobo, it was not my intent to hijack your thread. You have the luxury of quick access to a yard, we have the luxury of room to stockpile. Different lifestyles with a common goal.