Thread: Price of metal doubled ?!?

Yep

Getting steel is a bitch and prices are rediculous.

Well there goes my main job, I can't imagine many projects popping up with prices like that.

it is quite true my dad works for Stanley Works and he goes to China all the time and they are having a very difficult time getting their hands on steel at a decent price. Dont expect it to go down in the near future either is the word

Ah well, I have a couple of interviews next week. One for a lumber mill during the weekends and another for part time Gym work. Guess I'm done being a welders bitch....which actually might be a good thing

That is why it is irontime.
How did you get involved with metal ?
Do you like heavy metal too ?

Heavy metal all the way

I used to be a welders apprentice. Did this for about a year then I decided it sucked and went back to school. I'm still in school and working (well not for the last month ) for a welder part time. We are great friends, the pay is good, but the business is so slow right now and with this damn price hike I better get my ass onto other things.

I think a lot of the price hike has to do with the recent tariff on foreign steel. Even though it was lifted, foreign companies have marked the price up just to punish us.

Seems like such an odd thing to have a shortage of

Originally it was the Tariff.

But recently it has been the orient buying up all the steel.

I have a friend who works for a major steel company here.

The metal business has been flat for years. Then starting this year, many government and corporate contracts are coming up, which they need the material for. And I am just referring to domestic projects here in the US. With many mills closing or merging over the last five years, there are only so many places you can get metal. If you gotta have it, and you waited until now, you're gonna pay.
I'm just curious when it's gonna crash, which it will, as things always do.

damn

this world is running out of everything

my generation is gonna be so fucked up!

lol, quit beein a whore!!

Originally posted by myCATpowerlifts
damn

this world is running out of everything

my generation is gonna be so fucked up!

I will do everything in my power to make your generation suffer as hell.

Originally posted by Vieope
I will do everything in my power to make your generation suffer as hell.

LMBO

whore
whoring away
where the little whores goooo!!

i whore when i want
where i want bihatch!

Originally posted by Trap-isaurus
LMBO

wtf you little wimp

what? your mommy wont let you say ASS?

you have to say BUTT!
hahahah momas boy!!!

lol, I love my mommy very much...I love yours too but in a different way

Originally posted by butterfly
Seems like such an odd thing to have a shortage of

Well acording to what my GF heard, the Chinese are going to spend the next 10 years building this fricken thing and they are going to need all the metal they can get. Apparently Greenpeace is on their ass because this dam could change the whole ecosystem. I wish people would leave good enough alone.

Originally posted by irontime Guess I'm done being a welders bitch

So, it's back to being MY bitch.

Well, lets face it... humans will shape the face of this planet in our own image to accomplish our goals. Its a part of something inherent in us. For China to build this massive dam is not surprising, it will probably expand their capabilities quite alot, and considering they fancy themselves the worlds next superpower they really need to have a sizeable infrastructure in place to begin working towards that goal.

As to the steel price hikes, I wonder what impact this is going to have on everything else in the industry. For example, will we be paying more for cars now? Will my airline tickets increase because airlines now have to pay more for places? Will my housing prices increase because of any necessary metal work involved? There are a million and one things this could have an effect on. I have to admit that I'm pretty interested in seeing what those will be