No one wants scrap metal?

Just finished helping my brother strip a Dodge Dakota of it's drive train for transplant into another truck. Can't find anyone to haul away the (very rusty) body. With scrap prices what they are, I figured a quick call to a junkyard and it would disappear. To my surprise, no drive train = no interest. They'll take it if we haul it there, but won't pick it up. So without a trailer...suggestions? The rear axle is out of it, (it's on dollies) so a trailer with a winch or tow truck is needed. Paying a tow truck or renting a trailer would cost what value is.

Anyone want some scrap? He'd be happy with $50 at this point. Access is easy, not buried in mud or stuffed behind 8 cars that don't run.

There are NO useful parts left on the truck. it's in northern Atlanta, PM me for details.

Sawzall. I cut up my old rusty GT6 body with it in a couple hours.

they still want the scrap.. they just do not want to pay somebody to go get it.

Craigslist here always has scrappers asking for metal as well as most all tow truck companies will haul them off too.

What's your time worth to you?

It was worth the $50 to have someone do this:

I know it looks clean, but you can kinda see all the rust on the rockers after we pulled the BMP kit, rust in the sunroof drains, etc. I should have never built the car up to begin with.

Cut it up with a saws all. The scrap guys by me work hard for little money. Make their day.

Weird. When I wrecked my old Fiero and stripped it to just a few chunks of space frame, Pick-n-Pull still picked it up for me AND gave me some cash ($20 or something -- but I didn't have to transport it!).

craigslist ad- "free truck", it will be gone in an hour at the most

I put scrap metal on my front lawn, at the end of the driveway. It is usually gone in a few hours. Hell, one time I was hauling my old BBQ to the end of the driveway, I didn't even make it to the end before someone stopped and asked, "you tossin' that"???

I have had smaller metal items sit for up to a week. I post an ad on Kijiji and it is gone quick...

Also, in my area. Craigslist sucks a can of smashed shiny happy people... Not many posts, and most are spam..

Kijijji rules in my neck of the woods...

drsmooth wrote: I put scrap metal on my front lawn, at the end of the driveway. It is usually gone in a few hours. Hell, one time I was hauling my old BBQ to the end of the driveway, I didn't even make it to the end before someone stopped and asked, "you tossin' that"???

Same here. Stuff rarely lasts more than a day. I put an old broken window a/c on the curb and it was gone in 5 min - that was a record for me. If I run out of gas when mowing the front lawn, I don't dare leave the mower unattended near the curb for even the 30 seconds it would take to go back to the shed for gas. It's not that anyone around me dishonest, but the scrappers are just that quick.

Unfortunately, some townships don't allow scrap at the curb. Whenever my mother needs something gone, we have to take it to my house. Old appliances, refrigerators, etc. Otherwise she has to pay for a pick-up.

My lunch hour yesterday, in pictures:

Plus one old lawn tractor battery = $120.50. Minus a hamburger, fries, and lemonade at the mom-and-pop stand down the street, $6.94 including tip.

I got $150 or so for a neon shell a month or so ago. I had to haul it to the shredder though.

Couple questions about scrap.

Are there minimum amounts? I have a bunch of aluminum and stainless steel I need to get rid of. Should I just go to anyone or is it worth shopping around?

Volvo, you only got $120 for 1,000#s of stuff?

Going to the scrapper tomorrow with a trailer full. Be anxious to see what I get out of it. a few car batteries, 10 years worth of brake rotors, a subaru block, a water heater, and two old lawn motors. If it covers my gas and a burger, I'll be happy.

Mingled steel scrap is going for about $240/ ton. Car batteries are worth $10 each, smaller lawn tractor batteries worth $5.

Wou have to shop around for non-ferrous metal. Aluminum cans fetch around 50 cents per pound, other aluminum, brass, radiator cores, etc may be more or less. Also, radiators cores are worth more without tanks- which are usually stell or plastic.

Stainless is also a different price.

Electric motors, alternators, copper wire, etc can fetch more $$ if separate, too.

volvoclearinghouse wrote: Aluminum cans fetch around 50 cents per pound,

I see a lot of can pickers around here. Being as soda cans feel so light, I can't imagine that it would take fewer than 16 cans to make your $0.50.

Tough way to make a living!

Enyar wrote: Volvo, you only got $120 for 1,000#s of stuff?

and you have a truck that weighs 8100 pounds????

novaderrik wrote: and you have a truck that weighs 8100 pounds????

Diesel crew cab 4x4 1 ton SuperDuty... I'd say it's pretty light. My 97 2wd ext cab PSD is 6500#.

Good to know, I am looking at buying a lift and going to go with the 10,000 lb variant to lift my 02 crew cab PSD.

EvanR wrote:

volvoclearinghouse wrote: Aluminum cans fetch around 50 cents per pound,

I see a lot of can pickers around here. Being as soda cans feel so light, I can't imagine that it would take fewer than 16 cans to make your $0.50. Tough way to make a living!

Funny you mention that. My mother collects pull-tabs from aluminum cans for one of her church groups. Apparently, even when the cans are compressed, the tabs are denser by volume, so they don't want to deal with cans.

The scrap yard near me weighs and pays for various materials separately and there isn't really a minimum. When I was finished with the plumbing on the ex-g/f's house reno, I took the leftover copper pipe there. It wasn't much, but it was a few bucks. Similar situation when I scrapped her old cast iron tub.

It was OK when I used the TDI to haul such small loads... When I used the truck to take a load of old aluminum siding, the cash barely covered the amount of diesel the truck used. I can't imagine how the scrappers make enough to cover the gas they use driving around.

Enyar wrote: Couple questions about scrap. Are there minimum amounts? I have a bunch of aluminum and stainless steel I need to get rid of. Should I just go to anyone or is it worth shopping around?

Not usually. Last time I went I took three 5 gal pails of steel. I forget what I got for it but while I was dumping the pails they came at the Cavalier with the magnet.

when I scrapped by 318ti.. I got 9 cents a pound for it

Ranger50 wrote:

novaderrik wrote: and you have a truck that weighs 8100 pounds????

Diesel crew cab 4x4 1 ton SuperDuty... I'd say it's pretty light. My 97 2wd ext cab PSD is 6500#.

I was somewhat befuddled by that, too. I think the title lists the vehicle weight as 6400. Granted, it had 3/4 of a 38 gallon tank of diesel fuel, my 190 pound butt, and maybe 100 pounds of tools in the cab with me. 2000 7.3 liter 4x4 1 ton long bed Super Duty. Just bought it, actually. Great truck. But man- heavy! My old truck, a '92 Dodge 3/4 ton 4x4 Cummins extended cab long bed was about 6200 empty at the scales.

Volvo, you only got $120 for 1,000#s of stuff?

The highest scrap price for regular iron/steel scrap is $9.50/100lb here which would have been only $95 for 1000lbs of stuff. That is pretty normal. Where im at, the range has mostly been $9-12/100lbs for the last 5 years that ive been periodically checking.