[AT] 3-Bottom Trailer Plow

[Ed Stewart]

HI, it is the same here in PA, a local place is paying 60 cents a lb for 
old batteries, I have never seen a car battery bring more than a buck a 
piece. A friend of mine drives a triaxle hauling coal or blacktop 
depending on the season was working with his boss cleaning up junk at 
the stripmine and his boss told me a old aluminum triaxle coal bed 
brought $2000 at the scrap yard cut up into 4 foot squares. Ed

Lew Best wrote:
> Hey Dave 
>
> Yeah; they're real tight here now; require state issued photo id to sell
> anything except aluminum cans.  Thieves even carting of central air
> conditioning units; cut the lines where they go into the wall & haul
> them off to strip them.
>
> Lew Best near Waco, TX
>
>
>
> Lew, 
> Two weeks ago a gang(?) hit 25 or so irrigation rigs
> and stripped off all the cables.  Some conservative
> figuring yeilds more than 2 miles of copper wire!
> These high scrap prices are hurting everybody,
> especially the victims and the honest scrappers. 
> Who'd-a-thunk-it?
>
> Dave Myers
> Paw Paw, MI
>
> P.S. My two unrestored plows (one Oliver tractor drawn
> and one JD horse drawn) will be safe from the torch
> for now, and hopefully longer.  
> Disclaimer: above statement meant to keep my comments
> at least a little bit on topic :-).
>
> --- Lew Best <bee_keeper at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Might want to check around on prices; I got 100 a
>> ton on old commercial
>> clothes dryers last week (called "prepared tin" but
>> were whole except
>> for a few scavenged parts) so short iron ought to be
>> way higher than
>> that I'd think?  Was quoted $2.10 a pound for #2
>> copper!  Unbelievable
>> prices. 
>>     
>
>
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Ed Stewart
Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania
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