[TheForge] northern illinois scrap yards and dimco ( wasRe: Scrap steel prices )

[Smoky Rick]

You might try the yellow pages in Elgin there used to be a place.  Been 25 
years since I lived there, but there used to be...  There is a guy in Chana 
who scraps stuff out. (Runs back and forth in front of my house with his 
truck.)  Don't know his name, but you could probably find out by stopping at 
the lumber yard and talking for 20 minutes or so.  They are quite the 
gabbers and would probably know his name, but if not they would tell you 
which house is his.

Smoky Rick Crawford

If you think you can, or if you think you can't
you're probably right.

I'd feel a lot better about justice being
blind, if the guide dogs weren't all lawyers.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dann" <dann at wctatel.net>
To: "terry l. ridder" <terrylr at blauedonau.com>; "Blacksmithing List 
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Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] northern illinois scrap yards and dimco ( wasRe: 
Scrap steel prices )


>
> My son has been  an iron  "scrapper" for a number of years.  He
> doesn't love it when I see one of his loads of scrap,  when he is
> ready to take it to the salvage yard,  and  I ask to pick off some
> -good stuff'- from a loaded  trailer.    It it is better when I tell
> him a head of time what  - choice pieces-  that I am looking for.
>
> The point is that,  if the scrap yards won't let you
> scrounge,  perhaps you can contact a local scrapper and tell him  the
> kind of steel you are looking for, and get it for a decent price.
> Sometimes my son puts up flyers in local stores that he is looking
> for scrap steel / farm groves to clean up.
>
> A few times,  I  bought some old farm machinery for junk prices at
> local farm auctions,  just for the choice steel that tickles my 
> imagination.
>
> My son gets the rest, after I've cut out my choice steel.
> Once,  I bought an old hay baler because I wanted the heavy cast iron
> fly wheel for a post vise stand.
>
> The old hay  baler also had  some nice 3/16 thick flat steel that was
> good for making frying pan blanks, and shield bosses.
>
> Prior to that, I had tried to buy just  the  hay baler fly wheel from
> another local scrapper, but he asked more for that than I paid for
> the whole baler.
>
> Dann
>
>
>
>
> At 02:48 AM 10/29/2008, you wrote:
>>hello;
>>
>>On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Paul N wrote:
>>
>>>Yeah, what a drag that dimco cut out the scrounging. I found that
>>>out several weeks ago when I made the drive out there. They told me
>>>that people were caught wandering off without paying. I guess the
>>>fact that the office was on the other side of the street provided
>>>too much temptation. I think it was a pretty recent decision at the
>>>time of my "visit".
>>
>>july 2008 is the date that i seem to remember. i am not good at
>>scrounging anymore, it is difficult to scrounge when you are stuck in a
>>wheelchair or on the good days having to use canadian crutches.
>>
>>>
>>>They don't buy scrap steel in quantities less than 300# now either.
>>
>>that one does surprise me. for several years before the
>>head-on-collision (2007) and work accident (1996), i would take 100 lbs
>>or 200 lbs of scrap to dimco and sell it. now it is dump it or take it
>>with you.
>>
>>>
>>>Anyway, is there someplace else in northeastern IL where we can
>>>find useable scrap? I had picked up some pretty good stuff out at
>>>dimco on the 'lucky' days.
>>
>>i have not heard of any place.
>>
>>>
>>>Paul N.
>>>
>>
>>--
>>terry l. ridder ><>