I just started scraping on my vacation about a week ago, and i like it so much i'm thinking about working part-time so i can do it more. However, i was told to separate my metals and i did that today but they wouldn't let my steel be considered steel because it wasn't an inch think. I'm i missing something here who gets inch thick steel. I work around Las Vegas if that helps at all. thanks
Never heard of anything having to be an inch. Here's some generally common guidelines I'd written up a while back:
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/showt...light=Beginner
Yards by me in So. AZ pay sheet iron price for most steel. Right now it is .095 a lb.
I get paid the same rate for iron, steel, tin, and mixed, no matter the size.
plan on many more times of scrap yards bending you over in many different ways. in ten years, the tables will be turned. yard see you as a virgin.
if you have a job that gives you a regular pay check, DO NOT do less of that to do more scrappin! i wish i had my old job still!
On the contrary, I will never work for another person ever again. I like being the boss now (of myself, of course!).