[AT] gravely sickle mower

[Indiana Robinson]

On 4 Oct 2005 at 17:27, charlie hill wrote:

> Farmer,
> 
> I was thinking the other night about changes brought on 
by
> high gas prices. In this area, and I guess in most 
places,
> there are some poor old fellows who go around from farm 
to
> farm and business to businees in old broken down pickups
> pulling old broken down trailer.  They are looking for 
scrap
> metal that they will haul off for free and sell for what 
the
> junk man will pay them.  I figure most of them can't get
> over about 2000 lbs on their old junk trucks and trailers 
on
> a good day.   The junk man is paying about 1 to 2 cents a
> pound for that kind of mixed scrap.  That is 20 to 40
> dollars a load. There are usually two guys in the truck 
and
> they usually come from 10 to 25 miles out in the country 
in
> a truck that probably doesn't get over 10 mpg.
> 
> I think they are out of business!
> 



	Naw... They will just pretend that they can still make a 
living like farmers do.   :-)
	I have not followed scrap prices closely but I do know 
that steel roofing and siding has taken a jump recently.
	Last summer I was going to a few auctions and could not 
believe what some guys were bidding on scrap piles that 
even I wouldn't try to sell...   :-)   I know some of them 
had to have really stuck themselves. One sale with a lot of 
scrap could only be described as a "feeding frenzy" and I 
think a lot of guys got caught up in the game and forgot 
the rules. Rule one says that you have to buy below the 
market price.   :-)


-- 
"farmer"
Hewick Midwest

The master in the art of living makes little distinction 
between his 
work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and 
his body, 
his information and his recreation, his love and his 
religion. He 
hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision 
of 
excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide 
whether he 
is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. 
 ~ James A. Michener, attributed

Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net