I am in Central Maine and have six scrap yards within my area of operations. I have used all but two and those I researched and visited but discounted. For the past year, I have used, exclusively, KENNEBEC SCRAP IRON INC, 48 Broomhandle Road, Oakland. They are small enough to offer personal service yet is run professionally and pays equal to a larger, international operation just a few blocks away. They accept ferrous and nonferrous metals. He accepts catalytic converters; paying equal to anyone in the area. I called about a Large GM and was offered just a few dollars less than a bigger out-of-state cat buyer (anybody from Maine knows what a big deal that is).
KENNEBEC SCRAP IRON INC does not have a website. I have suggested it but the operators are "old school". I'm hoping I can help them a little with this endorsement. They're not well marked as far as signs. If you are coming up KMD in Waterville, go under I95 headed to Oakland. At the stop light in Oakland, turn right. Go about half a mile to the first road to the left (there's a small sign). Follow that another half mile or so till you go under a RR bridge. It's on the right.
Although I used "the other" scrap yard in Oakland, I can not recommend them. My problem with them was the impersonal attitude of some of the employees. I get A LOT of #1 Iron in the form of brake rotors. Although they would use the grapple to unload the Light Iron, I would usually have to unload the rotors by hand, mostly without help, rather than by a magnet. My hands are obviously crippled with arthritis. The "final straw" was the last time I was there - The guy said they didn't have a magnet and I'd have to unload by hand. There was a magnet laying about ten feet behind him!! But they would have had to bring the grapple about 50 feet to get it and then back to the #1 pile. I unloaded 3,760 pounds (I have the ticket) of rotors and a woodstove by hand.
I was assured at KENNEBEC SCRAP IRON that I'd never unload by hand.
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