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Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Yeah for scrap cars depending on what it is i will pay 500 lolOriginally Posted by olddude
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Yeah well you cant because you are only getting .09 cents per pound which is nothing lol only $180 per ton.
If i would have had that i would have and could have gave $500 for it and scrapped it for $762.45.So you can give good money for them just depends on what it is and what you get per ton.
Did I forget to say in my Post Down Here ? Oh that Right I Did Say Down Here. LOLOLOLKOLOLLOLOLOOLOLOLOOL
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Folker, no offense but you are just treading water, the older folks on the forum will know what I'm saying... Good luck to you,,i would have and could have gave $500 for it and scrapped it
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sry I komf of led us into a cat fight over cars. that wasent my intention, i was talking about small time scrappers like me. who need to get their stuff free or for very little. We are now in compitition with thousands od desperate noops who will pay $10 for a junk washer or dryer or 70 in an auction for a couple of computers the last computer buy I made was several years ago from gov auction in Pennsicola paid $50 for 5 pallets w/no printers in the bunch, did get one half pallet of speakers tho (ugh) but I also got one pallet of nothing but cords so fasr over the years I have scrapped about $400 worth and am working on the last of it now.
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if anyone has a 1964 impala ill give you more than 500
500 per car doesn't really seem out of line. You figure you are going to get at least 300 a ton or more from the yard if you can bring them in 20 ton at a time or 10 on a flatbed crushed. I don't know about how much time it would take to mess with a vehicle though. I would imagine at 300 a ton you could make at least 150 off it by the time you stripped it. I would also own a bobcat with a grapple and just smash the thing to death and rip out everything of value in it. What the hell do I know though been 10 years since I crushed a car. Worst job ever to. Load car crush car put car in 80 yard container. Repeat.
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Most of the people on this forum are not yard owners, and most of them do not have access to any of the equipment that you just described. For an individual scrapper, an outlay of $500 for an average junker does not make any sense. Additionally, $300/ton for a truckload quantity is a reasonable price...but it's completely unreasonable for a retail price across the scale. Finally, a junker sitting in a field is not the same as a junker sitting on the scale. Transport and labor are not free. The point of the original post is that many people have an unrealistic expectation regarding the value of their scrap, and these unrealistic expectations decrease the profit margin available to scrappers buying off the street.
Think of it like this: it is profitable for a professional preparer like you to cut up a piece of heavy machinery with Loxjet torches, burning bars, and all of the other tools of your trade. For an average guy with a small oxy-acetylene rig the time spent and gas used will most likely negate any additional amount he will be paid for prepared vs. unprepared. Same thing applies for the cars. A yard with all of the tools and bankroll needed to accumulate and ship 40k lbs of cars can make money buying them at $500 each, an average scrapper is hard pressed to do the same.
HLH&R yeah you are hundred percent correct but at the same time its a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll. Maybe those guys paying insane money have put in there time and get prices above what peddlers get. Just saying but on a side note I will posting some pictures of big big scrap we have been cutting when I get a chance. We moved 1450 gross ton of torch material last month for the yard we are contracting for.
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