Scrap Yard Ideas

**BatteryBob** · 07-11-2014, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by MattyNoNeck

****, those prices in the midwest are rough. You may want to look into trucking steel to the east coast. Yards around here pay $220-240 a GT for tin/shred, $310 for short steel. If you're buying short at $100 a ton, you could see some serious profit if you send it all our way.

Hell...a commercial account might even get you more per ton. I suggest giving the big boys in this area a buzz. PM incoming.

The $60-$100 is what they pay in the rural areas (5 hours from a big city). The yard I sell my steel to now in the city pays $210 for sheet and $220 for prepared.

**Mechanic688** · 07-13-2014, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by BatteryBob

The $60-$100 is what they pay in the rural areas (5 hours from a big city). The yard I sell my steel to now in the city pays $210 for sheet and $220 for prepared.

I was talking to my friend at the smaller yard and he just took a 50 yard rolloff of prepared to the bigger yard and they paid him $340. ton. Saved him a trip all the way to Ft Wayne.
Don't know how many ton was in that rolloff.