M Johnston

I have an almost identical stand as BillyBones, but with Redwood instead of pine, for rot and pest resistance. It is 6+ years old and still good.

Interesting. From where you stand, how much would you estimate has been directly caused by tariffs, and various methods prior to try to mitigate the dumping of inferior alloys? Have you noticed any correlation between economic actions and what you see on the purchasing end of things? If so, what are your conclusions?

Perhaps if I can find it, and there is overlap with the USGS table, I will try to extrapolate the margin.

That was my read as well. ("Pittsburgh base", listed at bottom) That's just a screenshot, if you go to the first link, you can read not only the full chart, but there are historical prices for iron, aluminum, and many other metals. For each metal, they try to list significant historical events that they think might affect pricing. I think to find the resale price you'd have to find a catalog from that region for that time period. I remember someone posting a tool catalog on here that sold stock, but I believe it was from late 19th century.

These are just average annual prices, and not tied to a region, published by USGS. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2012/5188/sir2012-5188.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjjl8yPpo34AhUqm44IHU7vB2kQFnoECBEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3IYmIb62h8rx0caf3TsXql

Of course. Too cool of a resource to not help it be seen. Thank you for sharing.

If you replace the https:// with http://, it should be fine. http://www.datamp.org/patents/search/xrefType.php?source=query&start=0&cat=20&type=0&class=2300 ..or you can go here to initiate a different search: http://www.datamp.org/tools/tools.php