[AT] Scrap iron

[crawler]

High scrap prices make it affordable for me to clean up. As you all know i
part Crawlers and we have been cutting up every loader frame and most roller
trucks. I bet i have 60 Oliver HG and OC3 trucks and i have never sold one.
Yard is starting to look better already except today i had Two Ingersoll
Track Drills dropped off. ,Will have fun cutting them this week going to
scap everything but undercarrage and final drives,boy there is alot iron on
them for what they are! On the other hand with scrap up i have to pay more
for junk crawlers.  ED   www.crawlerheaven.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 3:29 PM
Subject: [AT] Scrap iron


> We have talked about this a number of times over the years... Scrap prices
are running
> quite high now and the scrappers are really beating the bushes these days.
While it will
> help me get a bit of income from some stuff that was worthless a few years
back it is
> really going to hurt supply in our hobby. I was absolutely astounded by
some of the pure
> trash some of them were bidding up at the auction yesterday. One pile that
would not have
> half filled a shortbed pickup and was mostly tinny stuff and a couple of
car wheels and
> parts of old steel lawn chairs sold for nearly $20. The remains (and I
mean remains) of
> on old 24' corn elevator sold for around $25. I have a trash pickup here
and much of what
> they were buying was stuff I would call rubbish instead of scrap.
> I was talking to a fellow I know that owns a good sized auto wrecking and
salvage lot
> here and to another fellow that was a scrapper. The scrapper was telling
us that the
> large crusher operation about 25 miles south of here had recently paid him
$180 a ton for
> "dirty" engines and transmissions. "Dirty means drained but with part or
all of the
> giblets still attached. On transmissions it means drained but no torque
converters (I
> guess the converters hold too much weight in oil). They were also really
bidding up the
> old junk electric motors from the elevator basement. I asked a scrapper I
knew would give
> me a straight answer if he had to do anything to electric motors to sell
them and he said
> no. Junk mower and tiller engines were selling well too, all to scrappers.
>
> -- 
> "farmer", Esquire
> At Hewick Midwest
>       Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
>
> Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
> Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. Here 100 years
> before the revolution.
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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