Scrap

[Wades_76_cj7]

Never understood scrapping batteries. Core charge is $12+

O'reilly's charges $22 core charge here!

 

[kf4zht]

Never understood scrapping batteries. Core charge is $12+

I had dozens of server UPS units from work for free. Took the batteries and transformers out to scrap seperate then the rest as general. Made good money

 

[Wisconsinite]

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

Never understood scrapping batteries. Core charge is $12+

Buy them from a cat dealer they don’t charge a core.

 

[TRINDU]

Buy them from a cat dealer they don’t charge a core.

I know you love them for equipment... but $165 for a lead acid battery with a 12m warranty is already too high for a vehicle or non-commercial tractor. They dont need to charge a core

 

[Void_of_Light]

I know you love them for equipment... but $165 for a lead acid battery with a 12m warranty is already too high for a vehicle or non-commercial tractor. They dont need to charge a core

The bottom of the barrel battery from oreillys was $179 a month or so ago.

 

[ANGELO]

I really have no idea where these batteries come from. They just appear.
Also if I swap batteries on boats with two, one of them is normally still good so I'll keep that one.

 

[bdkw1]

The battery recycling place here pays pretty good money. I took the old batteries out of the motorhome in and got 85$ for the 3.

 

[Wades_76_cj7]

hauled a load of scrap tin in this weekend from the barn demo. Loaded it in the dump trailer so the hillbilly running the excavator grapple didn't fuck up my trailer. There was a lot of air spaces since the tin was twisted to shit from burning the wood off of it. Backing up to the pile opening the gate and dumping it out and pulling away was fucking nice.

Scrap prices were down though and I would not have hauled it in if I didn't need to clean it up and get rid of it. $100/ton here

 

[Gots_a_sol]

Ugh, I scrapped a truck a few weeks ago and dude on the grapple hooked one of my fenders

 

[Tin Roof]

Cleaned out the back shop this week. $0.27/lb for insulated aluminum and $0.40/lb for insulated copper wire.

 

[Wades_76_cj7]

I hauled some old barn tin in from Dad's barn demo. Scrap steel/junk was bringing $160/ton.
Dad has a bunch of scrap romex (ends, short pieces) from when he was an electrician and that shit is bringing around $1.60-1.70/#

 

[ANGELO]

Are the cheap china drill powered stripers usable? I have a decent amount of solid and stranded stuff to strip

 

[arse_sidewards]

Burn it off and then throw it in a bucket of vinegar to shine it back up.

 

[D Nelly]

I do this but I use a drywall screw instead of the knife blade. Works fine for the few hundred feet I do a year

 

[ANGELO]

Stripping wire. Should the darker oxidated stuff
Be sorted out of the stuff that looks new?

 

[[486]]

yeah bare bright goes for more money
or just douse it all in a li'l battery acid before you bring it in

 

[ANGELO]

And what about stranded stuff, is that separate from solid?

 

[[486]]

not when it is bare
if it is magnet wire with the shellac you get a bad price

 

[Tin Roof]

Whenever we haul in stripped copper it’s all considered bright unless it’s really dark, like when you burn it off.

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

Scrap is headed back up. Unprepared is up to $260 a ton. Prepared $290 a ton. Might have to start doing some scrapping.

 

[larboc]

Scrap is headed back up. Unprepared is up to $260 a ton. Prepared $290 a ton. Might have to start doing some scrapping.

Woah. Currently $60/ton for prepared here. What a difference 200 miles makes.

 

[Blacksheep10]

Jeez. KC area is roughly half.

 

[Pocahontas]

150 a ton last week here.


Since copper crashed I’ve been stockpiling it instead of turning it in.

 

[arse_sidewards]

Woah. Currently $60/ton for prepared here. What a difference 200 miles makes.

Trucking is expensive

 

[Blacksheep10]

150 a ton last week here.


Since copper crashed I’ve been stockpiling it instead of turning it in.

We have about 50,000 pounds saved up and collecting more all the time waiting for it to run back up

 

[PAE]

I sold off some lead back when it was higher but am stockpiling copper for a while longer and have a pair of 8D deep cycle batteries that my smart charger couldnt bring back from the dead, those are at least 100 lbs each.

 

[BUCKLAND]

We have about 50,000 pounds saved up and collecting more all the time waiting for it to run back up

Holy shit son! Bare or insulated?

We have a scrap yard on the top of the mountain that we deal with. They are set up in an old bar, my kind of place.

 

[AKnate]

Scrap is headed back up. Unprepared is up to $260 a ton. Prepared $290 a ton. Might have to start doing some scrapping.

Huh, it's been $0 for years.

We sold 45 tons worth around 2016 for $80 a ton, was around the last it was paying.

Just toss it in the dumpster these days.

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

Huh, it's been $0 for years.

We sold 45 tons worth around 2016 for $80 a ton, was around the last it was paying.

Just toss it in the dumpster these days.

Can’t help it you live in shithole Ak