Dealer Clips?

Can anyone tell me why the yard I go to call clean steel "dealer clips?"

For the first six months I was scrapping I was just throwing everything ferrous in with the shred. Then one visit, all the shred piles were occupied so I pulled up to an empty space with just metal, happened to have clean metal with me, and the yard van pulls up and looks the stuff over and says "just dealer clips?"



So I asked what it meant. He says that as long as there's no plastic, wood, etc. then it's dealer clips, pays an extra .01 per pound. I'm like, okay, yeah it is.

Since then, I've been separating my "dealer clips" and doing separate loads of shred. Right now it's actually at 235 a ton, so 11.50/100 lbs, opposed to 200/ton for shred.

All that weight wasted!

no clue i am sure its just another separation but getting more money is always a good surprise

Sounds to me that they are trying to get scrappers to bring in loads with less fluff in it. If you bring in a hundred lbs. of shred and it has 30% plastic,wood etc that would be 30lbs which doesn't sound like much but that would be 600lbs per ton. Now if you are the yard owner that is dealing with 20 ton loads then they have 6 tons of fluff. That's alot of money they are losing. "Dealer clips" is just the term they use instead of calling it clean steel. If I cleaned all that stuff off my steel it would cost me more than .01 per lbs to get rid of so I would take the less pay for my steel. That's mt story and I'm sticking to it.

Here's the thing, they "expect" fluff to some degree because in the making of steel they need more carbon. ALWAYS need carbon. That's why shred pays what it does to begin with.