archiphile Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 I am tired and a little ticked off at what I paid for 1220 pound of steel. (.90 cents a pound) But I have some great stuff. That is not an exorbitant is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Einhorn Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 I haven't bought from a junk yard in a while but it sounds a bit high. On the other hand it looks like you got some good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Browne Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Lots of great "junk" there. Don't know about the price but that little lot will keep you hammering for quite a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlander Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 thats very high, i pay .25 per pound of steel if i dont have copper to trade, lots of times ill pay with a bucket of scrap copper wire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aman Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Right now that is real high..... Aman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrynjr Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Definately to the high side. I paid $.86 per lb. for new bar stock this past weekend to make the frame for my gate. about a month ago I paid about $.65 a lb. for scrap from one of the local steel yards, it was only $.15 a lb. 6 month's ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasper77 Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Wow thats alot in my book. Glad I met an old guy that gives me a ton and sells me better stuff at .04 a pound. I know the scrap prices have dropped over half around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archiphile Posted November 18, 2008 Author Share Posted November 18, 2008 I felt like I needed a little vaseline when I drove outta there today. On the other had I picked up about 12' of Wrought Iron chain today and a few brake drums. The leaf springs where a good score as well. MMM knives and chisels here we come,but first I am going to build meself a forge. All I have left to pick up is some 2" pipe and I am in business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrynjr Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 and a few brake drums. I got several bus brake drums from where I work. I didn't realize till later that they are cast iron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainsFire Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Wow thats alot in my book. Glad I met an old guy that gives me a ton and sells me better stuff at .04 a pound. I know the scrap prices have dropped over half around here. wow, hey your fairly close.. sort of I was thinking of heading up to Burchums, I think its called.. heard good things about that place :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tribal forge Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 I pay .35 cents a pound about 20 miles from home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 I'm afraid I have to wade in on the side of "poor use of funds" too. You can usually get a lifetimes supply of leaf springs for free or a sixpack from an auto repair place. Once folks get to know what you are doing they'll give you scrap! Save the money to buy tools you can't make! You spent basically what I get to put into all my smithing for a full year ($20 a week to cover all my "vices") and didn't get anything that I covet save the WI chain. I'm building a 20x30' shop extension for about half of that! If you have that kind of money to throw around buy new stock, lots easier to use generally. Another trick I have in my small somewhat remote town is that we have a non-ferrous scrapyard that sometimes gets ferrous scrap dumped on them. It's not worth it to haul it 100 miles to a ferrous scrap yard so they generally sell it to me for 10 cents a pound---makes both of us happy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Leppo Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 What does one use the DISC BRAKE ROTORS for? I have a set I rescued from the steel dumster, and would like to tell the wife WHY, but I dont know. (other than stopping the car!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 That is a bit high. Ive been paying $0.35 a lb for cutoffs of higher grade steel bar( not fram a scrapper but from a metal shop). Sean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archiphile Posted November 18, 2008 Author Share Posted November 18, 2008 I forgot to move the decimal point,(should not try to do math and drive at the same time) I re calculated and I paid .09 cents/lb. That is a whole lot better than .90 sheesh. Thank you for all of your replies Best, Archiphile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 OK then; boy you had us worried, 9 cents a pound is a good buy by pretty much anybody's measure! Good job and you probably saved a bit in gas getting it all at once at the same place---see what a difference a decimal place can make? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrynjr Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 What does one use the DISC BRAKE ROTORS for? I have a set I rescued from the steel dumster, and would like to tell the wife WHY, but I dont know. (other than stopping the car!) Use them as a base for 3rd man holding stands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strongback Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 I'm glad you moved that decimal. If word got out that you were buying scrap at .90 you'd have had a line of beat-up pickups a mile long in front of your house and I would have been first in line. That's a nice looking score by the way. I'm sure everyone looking at the pics has already forged 100 different projects in their minds. At the yards around here it's all about the lbs. So, if you pick up a couple of washer/dryers, hot water heaters and miscellaneous junk on trash day you can trade for weight if you see something good in the pile. I don't spend a lot of time on it but I don't pass up the oppourtunity to turn someone's trash into someone else's trash that I, then, can use. That way I don't have to beg the treasury department for increased funding everytime I want to buy some junk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Einhorn Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Yes, that is a much better price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul B Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 There is a railroad near my house that everyone thinks is a dump area. You can go there and find most anything, leaf springs, brake drums railroad spikes, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 There is a railroad near my house that everyone thinks is a dump area. You can go there and find most anything, leaf springs, brake drums railroad spikes, etc. LOL same here pault....i go there and its so old that i can pull the spikes outa the ground with no effort...i found 40 feet of rebar just sitting there, lots of plate and other stuff! i now have 100+ spikes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WannabeSmith Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Man I really have to find a sweet spot like that around here... and I need to get something other then a neon to take it away in hehe. That decimal place deff made a huge difference lol from $1098 to $109.8! if anyone thinks that's a small difference I have a number of things I'd like to sell them :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philip in china Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 I just got 26 pounds of new hexagonal stock for $20.50 which is 80c a pound. Oh and it was delivered free as well. Also got a 10" circle of 30mm plate which was a drop about $3 so I am fairly happy. Have already used the circle to make a kettle holder for the stove. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 100 spikes *wow* that's more than I have used in 28+ years of smithing! (and 8 moves). I let the railroad store them for me and only pick up some when I need them. Funny thing; even when I move the local track still has some tossed out into the brush along side it no matter where I am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTBlacksmith Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 i find all kinds of things on my local RR track. i get all the spikes i can carry, the plates that go under the tracks, large bolts and nuts, the bent bars that go to something( not sure what they are but they are good 1/2 in bar stock) and different bars that i find. the scrap yard that i go to has all kinds of stuff including piles of bar stock in 20ft lengths. i picked up some 3/4 by 1/8in stock for candle holders and a 10in piece of one inch round bar to make a tomahawk drift. i think that i am going to make the guy at the scrap yard a spike knife and maybe he will put some cool stuff that he gets aside for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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