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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 2:38 pm
by Pablo
Since the start of summer I've stopped throwing all my scrap into the skip and have been keeping it instead. Took it all to a scrappies on friday thinking I might be lucky to get £400 for it all but fell on my arse when it totalled to £870 I couldn't believe it. Had a fair bit of copper and alluminium but it was mainly steel and I'd advise anyone who doesn't keep their metal to start doing so now. Was mainly old barrows and tools manholes and the likes but I also scraped some cable for a profit over what I'd bought it for a few years back. I'd sent a Polish fella to get 50m of 2.5mm 4 core armoured and he came back with 25mm stuff it nearly cost him his job because I couldn't get my money back on it but I could kiss him now due to me an extra £80 on it I wish he's bought the whole roll TBH.
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 4:01 pm
by dig dug dan
its amazing really, as all the old chainlink fences i take down, old manholes, and the dozens of silly metposts i replace.
I even have dustbin in the workshop for off cuts of wire , nuts and bolts etc.
I cashed it in, had a tonne and got £120! not bad considering i charge the customer to take away old fencing!
I have noticed more and more pikey wagons going about collecting scrap.
when i was working in edgeware, someone had left their fridge freezer out on the pavement. A wagon drew up, cut the motor out, the cables and the copper pipe (no doubt allowing the gas to escape) threw the rest on the ground and drove off!
When i scrapped my old fridge freezer, i did the same, and took the rest to the tip. The guy said he couldn't take it as it had no motor in it! more likely they couldnt make money on it. I dumped it anyway
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:05 pm
by digerjones
think i posted in another thread, in my area they have fetched in a scrap metal liecence now for anyone carting scrap around. they offered me one because i have a waste carriers liecence. it cost nowt at moment but in time we will be paying.
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 8:16 pm
by Pablo
looking at the receipts they pay £195 for steel £4500 for copper £2900 for brass £800 for aluminium and £850 for lead per ton. All those little bits and bobs from every job soon add up.
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 8:38 pm
by Dave_L
We've legitimately accumulated a fair amount of copper cabling from various demolition/site enabling works we've done over the past 18mths or so, not so sure about how to go about getting rid of it and turning it into cash without looking like a real criminal and having a visit from the five-o! Don't want to put it through the business, want it for some Xmas booze!
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:00 pm
by DNgroundworks
I do a bit of wire stripping - quite lucrative 
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:17 pm
by lutonlagerlout
i generally only keep lead,it can vary wildly in price
but of the scapyards in the vicinity
sita always pay much better
we counted 14 people in 1 day last week looking for scrap ,a real menagerie ,only half were pikeys
LLL
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:20 pm
by dig dug dan
I always feel that the people nicking manholes and cabling can be stopped overnight.
Make the scrapyards pay by cheque or straight into a designated account, and make them check for paperwork such as a waste licence.
Half the people doing it can be stopped in their tracks then
Edited By dig dug dan on 1323033621
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:27 pm
by haggistini
My mates an air con engineer and he does well outta the copper. I gave a scrap van some steel of our job last week it's worth it as there was a bit of plant on site, it's keeps them sweet and you can eye ball them and see the van up close
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:33 pm
by haggistini
Dave_L wrote:We've legitimately accumulated a fair amount of copper cabling from various demolition/site enabling works we've done over the past 18mths or so, not so sure about how to go about getting rid of it and turning it into cash without looking like a real criminal and having a visit from the five-o! Don't want to put it through the business, want it for some Xmas booze!
Bring it to the valleys dave and I'll take you to the ( reputable scrapyard ) by me then we'll go on the lash! how much ton dictates the session tho!
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:39 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
i was in bermondsey the other month , quite a few scrap men knocking about (not pikeys either). put an old man hole cover on the muck pile said to the romanian with us lets see how long it takes to go . within an hour it went . worst thing was so did my screed rails 
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:49 pm
by Dave_L
dig dug dan wrote:Make the scrapyards pay by cheque or straight into a designated account, and make them check for paperwork such as a waste licence.
Half the people doing it can be stopped in their tracks then
Thats far too simple, there needs to be far more complication and red tape in this country to seal up this free for all system!
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:58 pm
by pickwell paving
Big clampdown in our area the other week, every route into town was crawling with police and vosa stopping everything 4x4 and bigger looking for stolen scrap.
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:04 pm
by digerjones
digerjones wrote:in my area they have fetched in a scrap metal liecence now for anyone carting scrap around.
its started all ready
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:04 pm
by haggistini
ilovesettsonmondays wrote:i was in bermondsey the other month , quite a few scrap men knocking about (not pikeys either). put an old man hole cover on the muck pile said to the romanian with us lets see how long it takes to go . within an hour it went . worst thing was so did my screed rails
Taking a mans tools is a hanging in my book tha twaattss!
