Scrap Metal Price

[Gordy1]

I’d never ever sell scrap To them with their own skips....guaranteed your pants will be round your ankles

Hope not!!!! Trouble is it's all stored in a barn & need the space, if it had been outside the pikeys would have had it & we'd got nothing!!!!

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Hope not!!!! Trouble is it's all stored in a barn & need the space, if it had been outside the pikeys would have had it & we'd got nothing!!!!

Haven’t you got a tipping trailer?

 

[Gordy1]

Haven’t you got a tipping trailer?

Yes but there isn't another place near enough to take it to, this one is coming from Norfolk.

 

[Scribus]

I was once told that the scrap metal price was one of the more reliable indicators of which way the economy was heading, it was usually about a year ahead of the curve. I never checked it out but there is a certain logic to it.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Yes but there isn't another place near enough to take it to, this one is coming from Norfolk.

Good luck

 

[br jones]

I was once told that the scrap metal price was one of the more reliable indicators of which way the economy was heading, it was usually about a year ahead of the curve. I never checked it out but there is a certain logic to it.

If scrap price starts heading for the floor ,a recession is coming

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

do we use much of our own scrap, where do we melt it do at ?
mostly exported is it not

 

[Still Farming]

Asked scrappy what prices were like now, said crap?

 

[A Trebor]

 

[grainboy]

EMR, Shearing £105 less bin at £120,
Scrap always goes down around Xmas, due to global shutdowns.

 

[Kidds]

I’d never ever sell scrap To them with their own skips....guaranteed your pants will be round your ankles

That’s not true in my experience and going by the number of their skips I see around plenty others would say the same.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

That’s not true in my experience and going by the number of their skips I see around plenty others would say the same.

I meant in general.....but you crack on

 

[Still Farming]

EMR, Shearing £105 less bin at £120,
Scrap always goes down around Xmas, due to global shutdowns.

Or darker nights and our" friends", flooding the yards out with stuff?

 

[jimred]

do we use much of our own scrap, where do we melt it do at ?
mostly exported is it not

Mainly exported. Most of British steel industry (TATA) up for sale or threat of closure still producing at Port Talbot and Rotherham. Scunthorpe generally uses iron ore rather than scrap. Screwed initially by old outdated plant and practises now environmental legislation and expensive power. Goes to Turkey, India, China amongst others.

 

[Still Farming]

Mainly exported. Most of British steel industry (TATA) up for sale or threat of closure still producing at Port Talbot and Rotherham. Scunthorpe generally uses iron ore rather than scrap. Screwed initially by old outdated plant and practises now environmental legislation and expensive power. Goes to Turkey, India, China amongst others.

Election time kick off allegedly again Port Talbot?

 

[Scribus]

Mainly exported. Most of British steel industry (TATA) up for sale or threat of closure still producing at Port Talbot and Rotherham. Scunthorpe generally uses iron ore rather than scrap. Screwed initially by old outdated plant and practises now environmental legislation and expensive power. Goes to Turkey, India, China amongst others.

Countries without the stringent environmental legislation but have cheap power produced by fossil fuels. You gotta love it!

 

[Netherfield]

I recall our local yard owner saying "we used to take it to Birmingham, it still goes to Birmingham, Alabama via Liverpool" although I think that was more castings than steel

 

[livestock 1]

The ones that pay the best around here don’t let you see the weight on the weigh bridge.
I will leave that thought with everyone

 

[jimred]

The ones that pay the best around here don’t let you see the weight on the weigh bridge.
I will leave that thought with everyone

It's easy to offer way above market price that way. They'll pay you even more if they think you don't know number of loads they've taken.

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

I’ve just now been quoted £90-£100/t for general farmyard scrap , depending on how much is in the skip , York area . Apparently it’s lifted in price slightly .