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DougG 
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 Topic: Scrap cars , where do they go ?
Posted: 24 Jul 2021 at 11:55am |
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Just hauled an old Dodge Stratus to Millers scrap yard - got to wondering - what happens after that ? I know he crushes them , but where do they go after that ? Done good too- paid $400 for it, drove it 6 years - put 250,000 miles on it - and got $288 for it !
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Ray54
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Posted: 24 Jul 2021 at 12:17pm |
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To China, we cannot have the pollution from reusing all that stuff here.
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Greg (Hillsboro, OH)
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Posted: 24 Jul 2021 at 1:38pm |
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The cars are eventually shredded and the scrap steel goes to a steel mill. Most steel today (about 2/3) is made in electric arc furnaces, which take scrap steel and already reduced iron and melt it into new steel. This is much cheaper/more efficient than the blast furnace which process steel starting with the ore.
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PaulB
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Posted: 24 Jul 2021 at 2:54pm |
Years ago I hauled shredded scrap from an auto buyers yard near D.C to a small scale steel smelter near Coatsville, Pa. The was the worst stuff I ever hauled in a Dump trailer. They loaded it with a magnet and with the bed fully raised it never moved. I had to have the most of it unloaded with a magnet as well. After the 2nd load, I never hauled it again. There's one of them mini mills set up at Sparrows Point, Md. now.
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If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere.
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DMiller
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Posted: 24 Jul 2021 at 3:19pm |
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Which Millers yard?
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DougG
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Posted: 24 Jul 2021 at 3:44pm |
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Well the one right off of 28,, across from the nursing home
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DMiller
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Posted: 24 Jul 2021 at 4:05pm |
You are close by.
Know any of the guys from the MFA? My cousin Dale retired from there I believe was last year or two ago. Spent a great deal of money at Lane and Pioneer over the last ten years!! I go to Mullins in Rosebud most often.
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DougG
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Posted: 25 Jul 2021 at 9:42am |
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Yeah Im close to you , no dont know any from the MFA- i like going to Millers cause you dont need a title for anything 10 years or older- and it fast- I have gone to Mullens as I drive by it every day - they got piles stacked up
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