When I first started scrapping I would say "steel sucks!" Then as prices rose and I was removing steel anyway I started to take it in with my other metal. I learned fast that steel is easy money and took everything I could find! Then the prices became so good almost no steel could be found. Now that prices are falling and I can't keep steel with all my other piles of metal at my house, hoping for prices to rise. A new scrap yard opened and and pays for different types of steel (shred, sheet, prepared, unprepared, heavy melt, etc..). My normal yard is starting to do the same. Before peddlers just got sheet iron price no matter what is was! So now as I want to hold on to what I can (in hopes of better pricing) I am going to separate the steel keep the better stuff and continue to bring in the shred for whatever the price is!
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