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It's been low for a long time. What do you hear about scrap prices?


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$60 a ton here in northern UT. Just took some down last week.

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Check on scrapmonster.com for current market. A month ago, my last load of prepared #1 I only got 50 a ton...but saved my marriage.


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Hope it stays low.


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Scrap follows the price of fuel.

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You can't find an old used cultipacker or parts for one around my area because of the last surge in scrap prices. Every piece of equipment not being used got sold as scrap. I ended up buying a new cultipacker, don't want to do that again soon.

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Ok I’m a retired farmer and I have to ask what is a cultipacker! Edk

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Originally Posted by ERK
Ok I’m a retired farmer and I have to ask what is a cultipacker! Edk


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That's a fancy new one. Jake' is an old Western Land Roller. A lot of chilled cast in all of them. The weight is to break clods.


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Originally Posted by ERK
Ok I’m a retired farmer and I have to ask what is a cultipacker! Edk

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Ok I’m a retired farmer and I have to ask what is a cultipacker! Edk


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Originally Posted by ChuckKY
You can't find an old used cultipacker or parts for one around my area because of the last surge in scrap prices. Every piece of equipment not being used got sold as scrap. I ended up buying a new cultipacker, don't want to do that again soon.

5 or 8 years ago when scrap briefly hit $300/ton locally, a banker friend said "Who knew that to clean up the county all we needed was $300 scrap?" People were pulling old cars and equipment out of hollers and fence rows and river bottoms to haul to the scrap yard. BUNCH-O-Stuff went down the road on trailers to be scrapped.



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Originally Posted by Orion2000
Originally Posted by ChuckKY
You can't find an old used cultipacker or parts for one around my area because of the last surge in scrap prices. Every piece of equipment not being used got sold as scrap. I ended up buying a new cultipacker, don't want to do that again soon.

5 or 8 years ago when scrap briefly hit $300/ton locally, a banker friend said "Who knew that to clean up the county all we needed was $300 scrap?" People were pulling old cars and equipment out of hollers and fence rows and river bottoms to haul to the scrap yard. BUNCH-O-Stuff went down the road on trailers to be scrapped.


Same thing happened in the place I grew up.

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As to the rollers, I'd like to pull two, we have a squadron hitch from corn planters. Too much scratch for twenty acers a year.


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I’ve dealt with selling scrap a few times in my life. Back in fall of 2010 or 2011, I sold a bunch of scrap metal I picked up between work and the farm we deer hunted on. One day while out hunting, I tripped over a bunch of copper wiring that had been buried. I pulled it up, and sold it and kept the feeders filled with corn from that money.

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Scrap price is a barometer on the economy.


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Originally Posted by wabigoon
Scrap price is a barometer on the economy.


No...its a barometer of local theft.


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Parts store used to give $15 for an 'old' battery.

Didn't have to buy a new one.


You can guess what happened when the local meth heads figured that one out!

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I work at a power company. It’s incredible the danger a meth head will put himself in to swipe .35 cents worth of copper.

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My uncle had his sprinkler heads stolen, from his wheel lines a few years ago! They caught the thieves at the scrap yard! Uncle had called the scrap yards in our town and neighboring towns, telling them to be on the lookout for around 500 brass sprinkler heads! The thieves were a father and two sons! Piece of crap, raising more pieces of crap! Scrap in this state now requires ID to scrap over 50$, worth of material.

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