Scrap Prices

I just scraped out my parts machine for $9,500... D8 13A with a 14' blade

My running machine is next. Sorry to say but for $9,500, it's going to be cut up.

I paid $4,500 for the two of them and my running machine has made or saved me about $75,000 in work.

I hate to take the torch to her but that old 13A is a real handful to run and I can rent a modern "joy stick" machine when I need to and hand it back to the rental place.

Jim

It was $220 a ton here in MN this week, I thought that was good until I saw what Catmatt posted. Still the highest I ever saw it around here. Had the shop doors open at work lately, watched almost constant loads go by headed to the scales. Amazing the junk people have hidden in the brush. I don't think scrap will ever be high enough for me to get rid of my old yellow iron, though.

It was $220 a ton here in MN this week, I thought that was good until I saw what Catmatt posted. Still the highest I ever saw it around here. Had the shop doors open at work lately, watched almost constant loads go by headed to the scales. Amazing the junk people have hidden in the brush. I don't think scrap will ever be high enough for me to get rid of my old yellow iron, though.

Got home the other day and went out to one of the ranches that my family har farmed for the last 70 years, where one of the brothers that owns it has collected acres of "junk" for the last 50. There was a scrap yard roll off there and about 1/2 mile of skid marks leading from it and into the pile, looked inside the container and I see an old AC M crawler whole. The three cylinder Diesel 40's and RD6's that had their radiators stolen are next. Just as long as they don't scrap the Holt 75.

As long as the tractor fits into the container and is less than 20,000 lbs they will come and pick it up. With prices like this it doesn't even pay to worry about prepairing it for #1.

I Was talking to the guy cleaning up the place and he said he had a couple running D8's and a D9 that he has been trying to sell for the last few years. He said he just drove them onto the lowbed, got permits down to the port and drove them in. Kind of a shame running equipment getting scrapped.

hmmm yes same here scrap price real high here too, exporting to feed the asian tiger and exporting jobs and our prosperity great😞 all the raw materials for our domestic industry going to china 😠

price in waukesha was $330 for farm machinery scrap. you cant go to an auction and buy anything anymore because the scrappers are going crazy.

We took in two loads for my son's Scout Troop. A neighbor had an old mower, refrigerator, misc. scrap, etc. Came home with $600 for camping equipment. The trailor is only 6 feet by 16 feet...

At a farm auction today in Hemet, two non-running RD-6's went for $2,500 (with blade) and $4,000 (bare). Didn't hear what the TD-6 with blade or the RD-6 minus radiator went for. There were two rings selling all day and the writing is on the wall about what the high scrap market is doing to old iron prices.

- Richard

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