Scrap Metal Yard Prices Down
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2020
- Scrap Metal Epidemic!
Scrap prices are down for copper wire & aluminium big time.
Took a big hit on insulated copper wire today with the price dropping from $2.40 kg down to $1.50 kg!
Funnily enough, motors, transformers, brass & clean copper has held.
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Love the scrap yard runs. I like seeing the end results of your hard work. Some commodities are down while others are holding their own. But hey, it is what it is and you got some cash in the bank and that's good. Thanks for the information and entertainment. Be safe out there! Don't let it get your spirits down. 👍👍
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I think scrappers are selling their entire copper wire stock all at once, thinking of a sudden closure of scrapyards. Knowing that copper wire is more common than motors, demand is decreasing at the same time that companies are losing more money because of reduced workers. Perhaps this is the explanation of prices having fallen so much.
Great videos, cheers from Brazil!
i guess they want scrappers to stay home and strip the wire during these times.
Thanks for another great video Ben! I always love seeing your scrapyard runs, but it's a shame the prices are going down so much.. Still amazing to see how much all your work amounts to! Stay safe!
Awesome that you made a scraprunvid again. With that amount of wire it's almost worth to get a small granulator
Hi Ben, here in the UK today 16/04/2020 the price for light iron (the lowest) was down to £30/1000kg, down from £80 in december 2019. "household cable" (unstripped) was £850/1000kg, down from £1080 in dec. Dry bright wire, (stripped copper) was £2940/1000kg, down from £3800, Aluminium, clean was £150/1000kg, down from £300 last december andd £450 a year ago. Fridge motors were the only thing that stayed the same, £50/1000kg, So big drops here too! but you don't make any money if you stop scrapping!
Hi Ben another great video take care your health and keep scrapping regard 👍👍👍👍❤️🇸🇬
Glad you're still scrapping. My truck was overflowing until my yard finally opened again.
Prices here in Oklahoma much lower Tin at the yard nearest me is $20.00 a ton and at the yard that pays the best in the city is paying $45.00 a ton. Great Video Ben nice to know how prices are in other locations take care
Hi, Vid vulture is another great scraper. Matter of fact he is the one that told me about you. He talks about your channel a lot. We all learn from both of you guys. Thanks Ben. Love Australia 🇦🇺, been there back in 2017, from Sydney to Port Douglas.
Hi Ben! Yards by me in NJ are closed to the general public for now. It has been easier to find stuff since people are cleaning stuff out of their houses tho. Just stockpiling it all up till the yards reopen! Stay safe everybody!
Thanks for the scrap run mate. Always enjoy a good scrap run.
Great Video Ben Scrap Yard Prices Have Dropped Here Too In United States Some Yards Are Closed, Can't Wait To See Street Scraping videos Keep Bringing The Videos Dude.👍👍
great instructive scrap work video
eWaste Ben if i was you id get a hydraulic Press to compact this PC towers to take a less space in your van but also to compact other matterials for Storage issu that you have
How would load it after compressing with your hands, numb nut? You will need your forklift.
Brisbane prices have fallen quite a bit as well last 2 weeks
Dirty steel 8c was 14c
Clean steel 12c was 17c
Heavy steel 18c was 24c
Ally dom and cast 70c was 1.05
Extruded $1.20 was $1.60
Motors 50c was 65c
Lead Battery 35c was 60c
Steely ally is the darkhorse here its stayed stable at 35c
Im trying to hold what i can for now on the non ferrous side
Not worth just giving it away
Usually 500KG+ gives you a better price or at least a chance to negotiate for one, depends on yards.
Thanks Ben.
Not bad motor price compared to here in the Midwest USA. I've been scraping as many copper motors as possible, because my scrap yard only pays 2 to 3 cents more per pound than steel! Last I check (last year) it was 9 cents a pound for motors! I thought it was way to low!! So I've been getting as much of the copper out then selling the steel from it at a price not much lower!!
Have a GREAT Day!!!
Hi I like your channel because you drive on the right side of the road like we do here in the UK and you say aluminium correctly .😷😷😂😂😂
The price of energy is so cheap that it makes way more economic sense to pull raw materials out of the ground. Save your good stuff for when energy goes through the roof.
Not only that, most of the world is under lockdown, no factories operating at the moment, so no demands for metals and such...
Man you have a wire stripper. If copper holds it's price, and the insulated wire dropped significantly, than use that wire stripper and cash in the copper only. With prices like that its worth the work..
Ben melts copper for stacking
Copper commodity price was at 2008 level, I have the space, so I can keep mine until production resumes and consumers gets the money rolling in a positive feedback loop :)
Most of that cable there has very little copper inside. All the black stuff is from lap tops etc. Theres only 2 tiny 1.5mm cores. Would take about 6 months to strip all that even with a striping machine. Haha. The yard takes it as insulated so hes Ben's not caring much copper is in it as he knows he will get insulated price regardless of the size if the cords.
Computer wire and household cords are not worth stripping, it's only about 30% copper and 70% plastic. He strips the higher grades that have more copper.
I strip all cords that have 14 gauge copper or thicker. Anything under 14 gauge just isn't worth stripping. If it's solid wire I will strip 16 gauge but see very little of it.
8:00 case flies open... quick lets cover the spill! lol thank god that lots gone! 😊
hmm, shame first batch was bit less but its better than zero! 😊
Hey Ben. 30$ a ton shred. Only yard open to public right now. The washer motors were copper. All mine have been aluminum
That van is perfect for what you are doing! Too bad about the drop in copper, but how much space you have dictates how long you can hang on to things.
You should consider making some sort of jig/harness so that the forklift can grab it easy to flip. A band or strap around the body of the bin with two pegs for the forks. The simpler the better. Attach a tagline to the back so that it can be flipped by you. Maybe keep the harness low so that it can be flipped with just a tug.
I have watched a great number of your videos, and must say, I enjoy watching all of them.
I know you are an ewaste person, I would do that also, but I do not know how to rate the boards
and what to save off the boards. I scrap alot of televisions, washers, dryers, freezers and fridges for the copper in the motors. I guess you could call me the copper freak. Its too bad you are not in the U.S. as I would be able to speak with you and find out how to sort computer boards and parts\
Keep making the videos, they are enjoyable to watch.
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Hi Ben good video at least your insulated copper is doing better than here in USA West Virginia. The best price we can find is $0.40 pound it's just not worth selling right now. Steel is really bad also as sheet is only going $40 to $60 a ton in my area. In some bigger cities you can still find yards paying up to $100 but even that is dismal. So I am lucky in one way as I live in the country and have 5 acres of land. So I am just collecting what I can and stockpiling for when times get better. Hopefully one day I can get a good payday.
The cabinets are clean sheet iron,(remove all plastic and any copper or aluminum or you default to breakage) pound down the cabinets for room, mixed copper and pastic is :copper content: get a magnet, separate 304 stainless and alum. (MLCC)
knowning what you have and how to seperate is key to more money, a little extra time makes you a lot more money as well knowing the correct grading and the trade name, plastic is worthless, get a hammer and a sledge, and seperate house wire from communication wire, in Chicago we pay $80 net ton for clean sheet,
Hi Ben, glad you're still doing good, sorry to hear about the scrap prices. What would you want to sell one of those complete servers for? I may be interested in purchasing one if the price is right. I'm in the US but i don't mind paying for shipping, and i'm happy to do business through ebay or some other middle man site that offers transaction protection. Let me know brother, stay safe, wash your hands.
You've got some serious ICW work there Ben! No matter how hard we try to keep up with it, sometimes it just seems to get away from us, doesn't it?
Sure like your work been
Come to Alaska sometime and I'll take you dumpster diving and to our two scrap yards in the north pole area
God bless and best wishes..........dee
In holland all prices are down but e waste prices are about the same as always im working to get a goverment certificate and a little warehouse so i can be one of maybe 5 licenced pc scrappers in holland
At some point you got to ask if it's all worth it. I hope you have your price points worked out because of all the processing and handling, loading, unloading of that steel and not even get $100. Maybe you should take a single average PC, break it all down, weigh and price the components and find an average value of each one cause it doesn't seem like it's worth the man power to pick one up, especially with the drop of prices.
love your scrap runs
You wheely bin busy Ben
That was a lot of wire Ben and to bad you did not have time to remove the copper from those motors. Thanks for the video !
What does the recycler do with the cables? Do the get sent to India where some poor dude is paid 1$ a day to put them through a cable stripper manually? I wonder if they could be put into some sort of compacter and packed into 25kg cubes and stored until prices go back up?
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Scrapaddyscrapscrap of so much Peeeceees...nice. Thx for the new video Ben and stay healthy !! Greets from Berlin ;)
Damn mate, that's a big hit on ins wire... the fact that motors and transformers have held doesn't quite add up. Clean light shred steel in Sydney down to $80/tonne, many places won't actually pay you for it!
Keep scrappin' !
We just took our first load here in AZ, USA. The prices were horrible... Electric Motors 0.10LB, Sheet metal 0.01LB, Aluminum Clean 0.23LB.... We will post that video in a few days!
Would be very interesting to see them process the wire.
Amazing the huge quantity of recycling
Well done 👍
I love scrap yard videos. Have a few myself (wink wink). Prices are down here in the state. I like your Trojan horses. I use microwaves is scrap steel buckets.
Greetings from northen Sweden and a fellow scrapper.
Microwave are great for a bucket. I have a with a construction company so I get some buckets from him. Another friend is a painting contractor and I get some buckets from him too,, good thing those buckets are tin so it all goes to the yard.
Fella on the forklift had no idea what he was doing.
As a person who has worked in a distribution center during my school years, it was hard to watch.
I'm fairly sure the forklift was working fine, just that the driver thought he was going to drop the bin, so bailed out !
Yeah I think he only likes going up & down
All prices down here in S.E. Wisconsin. Aluminum, the worst. Best price is extruded, ($.17 per pound).
Hey,.I'm in Sun Prairie,Wi. where are u? Your not the scrapper guy in Stoughton are you?
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@@OldFatGuy Good to know. finding computers out on garbage day is scare. Likely better for you in a larger city right? Ive been watching Ben since he started up. Long time ago.
Hey I'm in SE Wisconsin, looking to buy some scrap copper for casting. Do you have any I could buy?
@@Str4ng3F0lk I emptied my copper bin before Christmas. but I believe i have some in the form of transformers. I will need to check further to give you a good accounting. How much do you need?
all these cables ! it seems like you are recycling the entire city xD
I wish I could move to Australia and work legally. I do refining of Au, Ag, Pd, Pt. In Brazil it's very hard now. Thanks for the info. All the best for you Ben. Take care.
Public cant get nitric acid in Australia. Have to have a business and licences and safety and on and on. So you have to establish a business not a backyard operation which has huge start up costs.
@@horacepinker6578 Thank you Pinker. Yes I know it involves a lot but what I mean is I would like to go and work legally even if is just a scrapper. Here in Brazil I do refining of silver scrap right now but its very difficult. I make around 700 to a 1000 usd a month just enough to survive.
Greetings from northen Sweden and a fellow scrapper.
You do refining?
Do you buy mlcc and tantalum capasitors?
In CA HMS2 clean is $40/ton and dirty is $30/ton. Tin is $10/ton
In Colorado the prices are also way down. Aluminum is really down and the yard is not taking cans and you have to have a minimum of 20lbs. For tin shred it is down to 35.00 a ton and you have to have 200lbs minimum. I think it's going to be a long time before we see it get better.
Same in Croatia,the prices Are down.I am stacking lot of bronze and coper..Rest i am selling,amuminium,all metals and bateries.I forget,i am lernd lot of you..
I think the guy on the forklift is his first day on the job
I m from Germany. The prices here from metalls are dropd so 40 % down. Copper so 25%. Steal 30/40%. That's a lot of money where we lose. I tip of my sell whaz you can sell... Good luck ❤️
where i live local scrap yard doesnt take motherboards
you pay for printers
pay for monitors they are £10 each so approx 17$ to scrap
What area of UK do u live
@@iWizardryPVP south uk there is a big scrap person who will collect and you get money but there is no money in psu or cases they get given to scrap man free
@@simonwalkden5279 can't u just put it with scrap steel
@@iWizardryPVP
Do you mean printers or monitors
Monitors are hazardous waste
Printers have quite a bit of plastic so no
Also being weee waste
Saving the planet !!
Great video my friend
The wire stripper you got,brand is it?
👍I’ve not checked prices here I’m just cleaning up my stuff at the moment👍
Price check heck yeah!
My yard is 0.15/ lb for low grade and 0.50/lb for high grade single strand. Only thing near or over a dollar is brass, no 2 copper and no 1 copper. Even aluminum is all around 10-20 cents/lb.
Today I checked and insulated copper wire is $0.39lb #1 Bare bright copper wire is $1.80lb I am here in USA Texas
On Long Island , they pay a little more for the CPU's . The rest is steel . I believe only a few select places will pay for monitors . Otherwise , it's E Waste . Some people mix them with the steel .
FLORIDA USA PRICES IN USD
CopperBRIGHT $1.50 LB
CLEEN BRASS $.70 LB
Nice video pal
Yards in New Jersey are closed also prices are shit. I'm saving wire copper and brass only
Them copper rings omg in england we would strip them mate
Can u do another cutting cable please love the videos
Here in Alabama aluminum is at .20 cents per pound that’s like .44 per kilo
22:50 I just bought same Variac for about $100 from eBay! :O
prices dropped a lot here in Canada im holding out for better price also give me time to catch up on cleaning
love it
Everything is way low over here. Depressing low. Can't eat kinda low. Well almost!
$45 a ton for light iron low
Yeo..... Ben prices are dipping globally...... 'Stiptease' the wires & stockpile fr the prices to appreciate, thatz d only option as lockdown has limited the scrap runs.
By the way as requested by you I checked out Shark Scrapper Video on RUclips & posted appreciative remark fr which I got an acknowledgement from the Shark......
Yes I will be stockpiling from now
@@eWasteBen As requested I checked up some videos on RUclips of Shark Scrapper....... They are awesome......
Surprised that the yard's website doesn't list the prices, even daily.
If they put the wire in a big big like that I'm sure you must lose money because the weighing machine can't get those little numbers for your light wire, so maybe ask for a small bin so you don't lose out on money, just a theory though
If you put the video at 1.5x to 2x when he unloads, it looks like gravity in Australia is very hard hahahaaa
Scrap your van dude, they built the steering wheel on the wrong, must be a lemon
Price in Montreal Canada last year filled my pickup truck with scrap 140$ I went last month 25$ for 2 water eater thank electric stove fridge a bunch of small pieces 740 pounds for 25$ I'm not going anymore doesn't pay gas
Inside monitors stands is cast aluminium
Keep the scrap for now, but that's probably next to impossible given the volume of things you process..
He's doing it that smart way, dumping all the cheapest scrap first, like dirty steel. That way he can hold more of the good stuff like copper and circuit boards
Sounds like now is the time to focus hard on processing the copper and steel... get that stuff sold before it drops too
Hi ben , I have a question, we just see you drop off the scrap on the ground but how do they know how much of metal of each category?
That's all steel, other metals go in a different area and get weighed by hand
Hi mate, I'm in Brisbane and find Sims Metal offer the better prices than most scrap yards here coz most yards seem to on sell to them, have you compared Manhari with Sims in Victoria?
I brought in seven full garbage bags of cans. All crushed. Price had dropped so low I only got seven dollars. I used to get that much for two bags
Wow.
G' day mate from a wet rainy central Florida. 😁
You are lucky. We, up North, have fucking wet snow in ON.
Why does your name look so familiar? Are you near Daytona?
All the scrap yards in Albury are closed to the public, only taking stuff from account holders : (
Prices are at half the normal rate here in Daytona (Central) Florida. . .:(
At least both your yards where open. More and more of the yards closed. The only one left is the big corporate company the pays out less and has less categories suck as extruded versus sheet.
We’re also expecting the price of scraps to go down here in Philippines. Btw, thanks for the videos. We mainly deal with metal scraps and not components like in your video.
Thanks for sharing
I m from india I also do non-ferrous metal work
The prices will go back up when supply comes back on. No one knows whats going on in China, I bet its a big downturn due to sick workforce that we are not hearing about.
If you want a couple of bins Ben, I have a couple in Sunshine North with no wheels that are surplus. I just wheel them with a bag trolley.
Were you get it allfrom
Was that a Catalytic converter or a resonator on that car exhaust pipe? Hate to see you lose money...
here in uk scrap yard i use which has closed was only paying 20 aus dollars a ton it works out so not worth scrapping yet
Lots of easy to get off copper left on the motors
yep i mentioned the scrap price drop on one of the previous videos some time ago. sounds about right...manhari 1.50.....Evelyn recycling $1.30. any yards in Bendigo no doubt even less (so i still dont bother with them even on a good day.) not sure what the story is with copper motors but what i can say is evelyn were paying 50c a kilo but its dropped to 30c a kilo. lead acid batteries were at 50c a kilo but dropped to 5c a kilo. steel was at 8c a kilo but that's dropped to 5c a kilo. i'm surprised Manhari are still paying at the 10c a kilo mark.
nice vid :)
Nice
Printers have some good boards in them.
Unless you have lots of spare time they are not worth breaking apart. Printers are generally mostly all steel and plastic. I am disabled and I do strip them but all I have is time so my time isn't worth much. Someone like Ben who moves volume didn't have the time when it didn't pay that much more to strip them.
@@kenjett2434 I have the time to pull the boards out. As for stripping them complete then no I don't have time to do it
@@mrgreenswelding2853 everyone values their time differently. But because I am lucky to have time it allows me to maximize what I can get out of every item I scrap. Not everyone though can afford to take the time to do that .
You should feel lucky, over here in Massachusetts that wire is only 26 cent's a pound
Just hold it if you can