Where to take old tires and steel?

[ChiliPepper / Kenny]

In back of the shop we pile up all the old tires and scrap metal parts. Every once in a while i see some dudes pick all the old junk up. Wondering where they take that stuff and how much they get for it. I was thinking I may take a load every once in a while since I got this big ass truck now.

[CSP]

Don't know about tires, but I take scrap metal to Oxford Recycling at Santa Fe and Oxford.

[jeepn4evr]

It is worth it to take in the steel. I also go to Oxford recycling. Last time I went I had a pickup load of a buncha small stuff & it wasn't packed & got $100. I just collect it until I have a good amount & am tired of looking at the junk & take it in.

By the way unless those metal guys have express permission from you to take the metal you can call the cops on them. They will probably be arrested because apparently alot of those guys have outstanding warrants. So if you decide you want to take the metal yourself & haven't given those guys permission they are trespassing & stealing as the metal is on your property. I have to watch the pile I have at work as every once in a while they will take most of my pile. A few months ago they took a fridge & they had to get it over the pile of snow the the plows had piled at the end of the parking lot. Also be careful of confronting them. Cops told us one guy had a record 3 pages long most for tresspassing & semi violent encounters & advised us not to mess with him just call the cops.

[ChiliPepper / Kenny]

Just called Oxford. I guess they don't actually take metal. They referred me to their neighbors next to them. Western Metal.

[CSP]

You're right, it is Western. I knew something didn't sound right about it. I got recycled asphalt for my gravel driveway from Oxford.

[scottycards]

I wonder what they're paying for scrap from a guy on the street?

.27/lb sound right?

BTW, 4 months ago, you could buy good secondary material for .25, now it's up in the .60/lb range. Steel prices are on a very steep incline. Scrap was under .10 a few months ago.

[jeepn4evr]

Yeah it is Western. I can never remember the name I just know where to go.

Not sure what $/lb is but I think its pretty close to $100/ ton or so.

Also it pays to seperate your metal ie aluminum 1 pile, brass 1 pile, copper 1 pile everything else another pile. Once taking in 2 radiators & some other stuff got me more than half a pickup load of everything else.

Metal $ has gone up which is why some of those scrappers can make a living by picking up metal wherever they can find it. Also is why auto yard like Colorado now take out the radiators & I heard whole engines & are scrapping them rather than letting someone come pull them. They can make more off the metal than they can selling it to someone used.

[scottycards]

Not sure what $/lb is but I think its pretty close to $100/ ton or so.


= .05/lb.

Sounds low to me. FWIW.

[Packman5280]

a buddy took his old pickup somewhere and got over $300 for it, said they're paying $150 a ton now. don't know where.

[Sound_Man]

I hauled FrankZ's burned up van to a scrap yard once we all got the motor out and I think he got $300 a ton for it. Shoot him a PM and ask him.

[not so Quikjeep]

I hauled FrankZ's burned up van to a scrap yard once we all got the motor out and I think he got $300 a ton for it. Shoot him a PM and ask him.

That sucks when I was trying to sell my beater i thought about taking it to the scrap yard but they were only paying $150 a ton and that was only a few months ago. I sold it for the same price to a board member for a project. Which is what I wanted to do any way

-Tom