[ihc] RE: ihc-digest V7 #412

["Peter Shubin" <pshubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe this price is for processed (clean, sorted, in containers) scrap
ready to load and ship in Southern California.  I'm not in the steel
business but have seen the prices run up on the materials for the towers I
build recently.  The price of scrap affects the price of milled angles.  

$1,200 comes to about $.60 per pound.  A few years back scrap was going for
$.35 per pound so this price does not seem out of this world to me with all
the activity in China right now.  Regardless, I'm getting multiple proposals
for what I need.

If I could get $1,200 a ton for old cars I would get into the car scrapping
business.

-----Original Message-----
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 19:31:54 -0800 (PST)
From: mark stegmann <truckdriver_1977@domain.elided>
Subject: Re: [ihc] RE: Anvils

$1200 a ton?? WHERE???????? I'll sell my suburban & my
travelall & my cub cadet & my kohler blocks & spare
345!!!! I think someone is playing an april fools joke
on you Peter. Around here(St. Louis area), it's going
for $80-90, depending on what it is. 

I wasn't at this sale, but a couple of my buddies
were. A couple weeks ago, an old tractor
dealer(started sellin N series fords in 39, in fact,
they had sold & gotten it back, 9n serial # 174) and
later switched to Massey & added Kubota. They had a
500 pound anvil. It brought $1900!!

Mark