[TheForge] Steel Scrap was Treadle Hammer Anvil Stand

[David E. Smucker]

Like Ries notes -- most scrap is on the move today.  Another reason is that 
most scrap yards expect the price of scrap to drop, and drop quickly so you 
want to get the money out of what you already have on the ground.  Around 
here (western North Carolina) many guys who would normally be hauling timber 
are current trucking scrap, pays better.

Dave,

ps I think steel prices will be coming down, question is when.



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From: "ries" <ries at riesniemi.com>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 11:13 AM
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Treadle Hammer Anvil Stand

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> On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:46 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:
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> Why fart around with this at all?  Go to the scrap yard and find a  piece 
> of 6" solid round or 4" solid square and do the job correctly.   If it 
> costs you $50, so what?
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> 3 feet of 6" round weighs 300lbs.
> My local guy would get .30 a pound for that-
> $180.
> If he had any.
> Last time I was at the scrap yard, they had about 50 square feet of 
> actual scrap for sale- a few perfect I beams or big pieces of 12"  square 
> tube, in lengths over 8 feet.
> Everything else goes right onto the big pile that is being loaded, all 
> day long, into containers for shipping to the steel mills, either here  in 
> the USA or overseas.
> Most steel now, in an efficient scrap yard, sits for no more than a  day 
> or two before being sold in bulk.
> Same thing with auto recyclers around here- Schnitzer, from Portland, 
> owns something like 600 auto recycling yards around the country.
> A car will sit 30 days, and then its crushed, no matter what- a  computer 
> printout tells em which cars to smash each day, to "keep the  inventory 
> fresh".
>
> The value of land, the expense of running a business, means in most  west 
> coast states, anyway, a scrap yard goes out of business if it is  waiting 
> to get top dollar for that usable scrap like 6" round.
> Not a good thing, but an unfortunate truth around here.
>
> ries
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> Ries Niemi
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