What We Accept in Our Steel Yard and How to Prepare It:

When you visit Wise Services & Recycling, we want you to have the easiest transaction and most pleasant visit possible. Understanding how to sort your materials and how we grade your materials will ensure you get the most for your scrap metal and that your visit is quick and efficient. Here is a breakdown of what we do and do not accept in our steel yard. If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at 540-825-0996

White Goods:

Household appliances such as washers, driers and dishwashers
Refrigerators, freezers and window air conditioning units with compressors removed
Hot water heaters

Light Metal

Includes Tin and sheet metal
Fencing- must be free of wood or brush
Propane tanks- must have valves removed or have a hole cut into it
Steel wire rolled or bundled
Steel 1/8" thickness or less
Lawn Mowers- must have oil and gasoline removed

P&S (plate and structural steel)

Cut structural and plate scrap
Thickness not less than ¼ inches
I-beams, angle iron, channel, square tubing, and steel plates, strips, bars and rounds
no larger than 4 feet long and 2 feet wide

Heavy Steel:

Includes most farm machinery
Larger pieces of steel that need to be cut with the shear

#1 Prepared Steel:

5' long by 18" wide and 1/4" thick maximum
Car wheels (steel)
Rebar cut into 5' pieces or less
Black Iron Pipe less than 5" in diameter

Torched Steel:

Material so large it cannot be cut with the shear, it must be torched
Includes loaders, dozers, forklifts, most heavy equipment.

Vehicles:

Please review our section on scrap vehicle requirements. Please contact us if you have any additional questions.

Cast Iron

Water and sewage pipes, household radiators and furnaces, machines, and automotive parts such as cylinder heads and blocks, drums, and rotors.