Someone wants to buy Rusty/Used Nails

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

Back in the 80's I remember an ad in the newspaper for antique coat hangers.. My cousin bit, and sent the $1.00 or however much it was and got a rusted nail in return..

 

[mississippifarmboy]

Old hand made square nails bring a buck a pop here to the people who restore primitive furniture. And I hualed several buckets of rusty common nails off for scrap last year, brought a fair price just as scrap.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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You are the winner!!!

I just talked to the guy and he buys the nails for $0.10 per lb. He sells them as scrap metal along with hinges, bolds and miscellaneous fasteners. When I talked to him, he was at the Pull-A-Part (car place for parts) picking up scraps. He sounds like he is about 80 yrs old. He was so nice. I will be selling my nails to him. I have A LOT!

 

[kuntrygirl]

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You're a winner too !!! He sells them as srap. I never thought of that.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

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That's really interesting. I learn something new on BYC every day!

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

My Grandpa makes figures out of old nails. It could be what they are doing with them. The rusty nails have more character.

 

[aprophet]

I had an uncle in the 60's and 70's we would straiten nails and reuse them he built whole houses out of used lumber and nails kina an early habitat got a lot of folks out of squalor he did . Thanks for reviving his memory for me

 

[sourland]

My father never threw a nail away. They were always straightened and reused. A little Scottish blood goes a long ways.