Scrap Metal Price

[holwellcourtfarm]

What grade do people put farm scrap in as? Whenever I weigh anything in at one of the yards round Hastings they always want to put it in as "light iron". If there's no fence wire or old white goods in amongst it, what grade should farm scrap be?

Always sell as Shearing here. Ours is mostly cut up machinery and workshop offcuts with the odd bit of light iron or wire and some heavy stuff.

 

[tomlad]

Is shearings , basically girders chopped to 3 - 4 foot lengths ? Sheared ?

 

[glasshouse]

What grade do people put farm scrap in as? Whenever I weigh anything in at one of the yards round Hastings they always want to put it in as "light iron". If there's no fence wire or old white goods in amongst it, what grade should farm scrap be?

Heavy

 

[New Puritan]

Thanks @holwellcourtfarm & @glasshouse . I'm going off this handy guide here: https://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metals/ferrous-metal-prices/ferrous-grades/.

When you say "heavy" - is that for cast? Inevitably there's a bit of a mix when I weigh stuff in, but I can't help feeling the yards round here put it all into the lowest value category. The stuff I weigh in tends to be knackered implements - old cast iron stuff and wearing parts like plough metal / cultivator tines etc.

 

[MF-ANDY]

The last lot I sold was classed 50%light, 50%shearing which i guess was about right. As it sold by weight i wonder why it matters.

 

[Surgery]

The last lot I sold was classed 50%light, 50%shearing which i guess was about right. As it sold by weight i wonder why it matters.

Room it takes up?

 

[TheTallGuy]

The last lot I sold was classed 50%light, 50%shearing which i guess was about right. As it sold by weight i wonder why it matters.

Lighter stuff, especially netting, ht wire etc., will have more surface area, hence more rust/shyte/contamination and therefore will yield less reusable material as part of the recycling process.

 

[Skintagain]

Depends where you take it. Some are barstewards

 

[roscoe erf]

mixed

 

[A Trebor]

£70/tonne ? not mine or it would still be here, local resident collects for village hall so £220 for there funds is worth having

 

[Robert K]

£85 a tonne a week or so ago

 

[Skintagain]

£85 a tonne a week or so ago

What grade?

 

[Robert K]

What grade?

Heavy farm stuff

 

[tinman]

£95 per T of general scrap today.

 

[Devon Gurfallo]

Batteries £350. I will leave them in the barn

 

[puntabrava]

Sent a trailer off a couple of weeks ago, £120 ton mixed to Williams metals Pewsey.
Whether he was so thrilled he forgot himself with two Isuzu troopers and an Astra van sent a week before I don’t know. Apparently the Isuzu’s go to Africa.

 

[manfromhill]

Batteries £350. I will leave them in the barn

Phoned two places three weeks ago one said 350 other 500! Both quoted 95 for steel both within five minutes of each other

 

[John Deere 8530]

Took 7 tonne of mixed scrap yesterday and got £90 a tonne.

 

[Simmy]

120 a ton for mixed. Broughs at Flimby, Cumbria.

 

[Kam]

£120 at Scrapco, Red Lodge