Finally got some time and space to load up the metal scraps I've been squirreling away for 4yrs at the shop and at the house, where my wife threatened to start mixing it with my meals.

Scrap prices are coming back up, got $110/ton for tin/iron mix and $.50/lb for clean aluminum


Loaded up on the lift - everything here was stashed under workbenches, under cars, and under foot:



This is 2420# of scrap metal:

Looks like a lot of work!

A couple hrs work = $175 cash from the scrap yard
Clean shop and happy wife = priceless!

I just dropped a single load of copper for over $1100. It was a big load.

What are they paying for copper? I've got several car harnesses that I'm going to clip off the connectors with 6" pigtails and sell the rest for scrap. Should have 100# of insulated wire. I also have a bunch of small motors and an old buzzbox that is all transformer - must be 80#, plus the 000 leads.

#1 is in the upper $2 range per lb.
w/ and insulation on it, price drops pretty good.

I should probably clean out the garage too. There isnt much but hopefully it will pay for a new diff cover and a tire or two. We've probably got ~100# of steel, ~30# of aluminum, ~150# of copper (~90% bare), and ~300# of brass.

Housewire (10-14s with insulation) is above a buck/lb up here. Car wire is probably quite a bit less, unless you have some housewire you could mix it in with.

Around here you don't get anything for steel unless you bring 500-1000 lbs. So I just bring it to work and through it their bin.

Alan, you're quite the pack-rat

The place I go to takes pretty much anything. He said he once paid a guy for just 6# of steel.