Here, one place paying $170 a ton for anything you drag over the scale. I've took them loads that had automobile wheels with tires still on them~ they don't care, they put it all in and on a junk car and smash it as is. Took them an old wood stove with the firebrick still in it, they don't care- it all adds weight! I've seen guys take cars in that they've loaded the trunk with concrete blocks.
The other place has an ad in the paper saying "$200 a ton for small prepared iron". I've heard he is just doing "bait and switch" cause he finds something wrong with your idea of "small" and gets you a lower amount cause it ain't prepared small enough. Advertises a higher price for aluminum cans, too, and in his ad he mentions that price is for dry cans. Get the cans unloaded into his bin, and he digs around and finds one that's dripping beer, then you don't have dry cans and he gives you a lower price than the other places...... I avoid him.
A while back, maybe a year or a bit more, the first place was paying $225 or so a ton. Our town was bereft of ferrous scrap metal! You couldn't leave anything laying out or it was gone. Made me sick cause I had nothing to scrap, and could remember taking whole automobiles out to the scrapyard and getting $20 a ton....and feeling like I robbed a bank
