Metal Monday Episode #41 with Nick and Brett, October 7th, 2024

Brett and Nick are back for another Metal Monday to discuss the weather changing, strong pricing for nonferrous metals, and how the 75 hard is going. Produced by Recycled Media.

Transcription

all right middle Monday you know we’re already going on second week of October yeah it’s kind of feeling like fall over here in Ida you know some days if was feeling like summer recently supposed to be 80° today but you know this the morning though feels nice and time a year it’s like we get 40 like 40 degre swings right from 40 to 80 or I mean it gets which is kind of wild the think about in a day I can start off that crisp in the morning and then by by the end of the day sweating this is the time of year where all my sweat shirts and all my jackets wind up stay at the office I have like 20 to haul back at the end of the week you know but yeah you know so weather’s still kind of wild over here but pricing still looking pretty strong yeah nonfer side I mean last week was a good week I mean nickel put in a good week aluminum held pretty damn strong put in a good week you know copper held it own I think we’re still 454 this morning

in that 453 range um all things considered we’ll see what Ferris ends up doing I mean I think everybody’s just kind of talking this thing sideways so I mean it’s you know which isn’t the worst case scenario um you know I think I think when they start talking it sideways like this I think there’s some some better some there’s some optimism coming right so maybe November we get the 20 maybe November December we’ll see you know there could be 20 to 50 in this thing it’s all said and done by the end of the year beginning next so I think I mean maybe that’s The Optimist in me that’s the Nick Snyder in me but uh I think that it it could be it could be there if if things things Trend the right direction um yeah well I’ve heard a more East Coast you know they were talking 20 $30 UPS you know and we’re not a lot of times we’re month behind them yeah or you know it’s obviously different ports different oceans we’re dealing with but you know that’s what they were telling me that they already got they signed contracts

at $30 up some of those guys yeah now I don’t think we see that West Coast you know no they’re going to Contin you L on because the problem is the export Market off the west coast is still so challenging MH it’s there’s still just not a lot of homes for it so they’re just not having to be super price competitive that will change when I don’t know but I I do believe that will change and when that does change then it’s then it’s then it’s on like Donkey Kong you know I really believe as long as the US economy holds on and you don’t go into a big recession and if the export Market can kind of gain some ground I think that that pricing Dynamic can change in a hurry but for now sideways is you know on the over in the west I guess it’s probably not the worst worst case scenario and you know non ferish we’ll just keep watching it hopefully it hangs on hopefully you don’t see a lot of downward adjustments which doesn’t feel like that that’s coming feels like we’re going to hold strong yeah I

think aluminum is holding its own you know Copper’s holding its own Nicholls holding its own I mean you can’t you can’t complain all that much about about the those markets now the flow is still slower I think for a lot of people I talked to a lot of people the flow is slow fairis and nonf farest I think just cuz the manufacturing is still you know taking a while to gain some some ground but that is what it is I mean we’ll see see where the year ends up but I’m still optimistic that this year ends on a stronger note if we can you know get this Market to uh to hold on how’s 75 hard going for you it I we got sick a couple times and it was awful you know yeah it’s it’s hard enough when you’re not when you’re feeling good and that the first time we did it last year I never got sick so now that I’m through the sickness uh it’s been it’s been good it’s like Saturday was hard cuz I went to the game yeah you know and then I still had to get two

workouts in so I mean we got home at like 9: you know and I just Wen ready to go to bed but I had to put on my G Ruck bag yeah and go take a walk put on my my music and take my dog it it good dude but put your head lamp on I didn’t haven’t been wearing my headlamp that’s why the cops stopped me a few times like what’s this creeper doing with this backpack full of tools to break into houses yeah last my part I got stopped twice by the cop that lives in our neighborhood but he’s on the HOA board with me uhhuh and he’s all Nick I’m like what’s up D I got like two complaints about you and that that is when I start her wearing my head but I haven’t and it’s getting dark early again so I probably need to find I had my I bust out my headlamp the other day cuz uh I was traveling went to Salt Lake and we had to be down there at a decent time so I got up at 3:45 or something and had to get

my R my outside workout in so I could get up and then drive to Salt Lake and I bust out my headlamp and it was like barely lit because the batteries were but it was still just enough to kind of get yeah me through and my wife’s like why is there a headlamp in our bathroom I was like oh I had to use it the other day and she’s like geez I it needs batteries so I got to put some batteries in it because I know you know soon as time soon as they set the time back which is right around thanks or right around Halloween here for us yeah then it gets dark so by the time I’ll be luuck in the last I don’t know what few three four weeks in the dark at night well well well even yesterday we my daughters got try outs for basketball so we’ve been doing I’ve been doing a lot of like outdoor workouts with her yeah like just doing basketball trainings playing one-on-one games it’s been fun yeah but we had chores to do and we’re running around we went to the

store to get some stuff uh for dinner for the week and we didn’t get home till like 7:30 it was it was dark oh yeah and like we still had to get our basketball training in so we’re like you know but so good luck to Eden she’s got basketball I love it man 75 hard everyone that’s out there doing it you know stay strong I think or I don’t know what day we’re on it’s 37 so 37 okay yeah um and yeah that’s all I got all right man everybody have a great week and uh get your get your scrap sold let’s see what happens talk to you there thanks