Used a special wrench last night

[RRoller123]

Smart, they opened up the breadth of the market. I feel really bad for the scrap yard in Avon, MA that gave us a good deal when we cleaned out the church attic; paid above market prices to help us out. They are gone.... But all they did was process scrap. And what is to become of all the brass we need for ammo casings? Hope that recycling flow keeps going.

[DieselSpider]

Back in the day I bought tons of 8" and 10" wide 9/16" boiler plate from them to make eight sided wood burning stoves. Could heat a Cape Cod with a full dormer in the back on $15 of scrap pallets a month. Put the stove in the basement and had two risers of forced hot air going to top of each stairwell on the first and second floors. Filled the stoves twice a day to heat the house.

They probably made more money selling reclaimed and leftover steel from manufacturing and demolition to local businesses than from actually scrapping it. They had the sheet, bar, angle, channel, plate and girders all set out in stock yards for purchase and only the bent, mangled, fire damaged or really rotted away stuff going out to the mills as scrap.