scrap metal

[nick2303]

i've managed to collect a pile of various bits of metal, old car panels, hubs, discs, half shafts, and as i work in a bed shop, some old bed frames (bout 20 of em)..

been looking for somewhere to unload a trailer or two full of this stuff..

but looking at scrappers websites, they only seem to want non-ferrous, which to my limited knowledge means without iron?

am i right?

surely this cant be the case?

dont wanna turn up looking a fool so if there are any pikeys on here who can tell me what to do for the best and what price i should be gettin for a mixed bag of stuff..

must be worth summat as last lot i collected was nicked out of my back garden!

 

[Paul D]

I just took a trailer with 15 metal chairs, two nackered props, a selection of discs, a small trampoline frame and various other bits and bobs, a right mixture .. got £30, but the scrappy is only round the corner from me. £3 of the £30 was for a stainless plate the school kitchen threw out! I just lob anything metal into the trailer, drive it round when full and just weigh it in, I've never come home with less than £30, this time was the stingiest, but no matter, it cost me much less than a litre of diesel ..

 

[fanatic]

we fill a shagged car with mainly metal rubbish and it is like a mobile skip- currently have one to go soon full of car parts, lawnmower etc

 

[chunkymunky]

So how much for oh so slightly dented disco body ,doors and cut up chassis?

 

[nick2303]

cheers for that..

anyone got any idea of price per tonne?

recon i've got 600 to 700kg

 

[johnny curt 1]

thats what i do with my trailer it just gets anything thrown in it and when its full i sort through it seperate the council tip **** from the metal and get rid of what i have most of then dedicate the trailer to the other

soon itll be a council tip run then ill dedicate it to metal and weigh that in when the series is finished

 

[fanatic]

So how much for oh so slightly dented disco body ,doors and cut up chassis?

scrap here for cars is £140 ton, now clean light iron metal was £200 ton back along I cut a car up sold the engine and box, cat etc separately so a bare chassis should weigh in as light iron as the shell i scrapped did.

 

[nick2303]

Reckon the lower price for complete car is because its full of plasctic trim and seats.. so 30% reduction in price..

 

[fanatic]

Reckon the lower price for complete car is because its full of plasctic trim and seats.. so 30% reduction in price..

correct so you pull the engine whip the head off as dirty alloy and cast block.

a set of shagged 15 inch alloys with no inserts, valve.weight or tyres was £37

 

[livers]

correct so you pull the engine whip the head off as dirty alloy and cast block.

a set of shagged 15 inch alloys with no inserts, valve.weight or tyres was £37

They just luuuuve to find a couple of weights don't they

 

[chunkymunky]

It would just be metal

Breaking it. Tidy bits go.

Engine the lot getting sold.

 

[trax99]

They just luuuuve to find a couple of weights don't they

yes, but if you work in the recycling business like i used to, the grief it takes to sort the different metals out is unbelivable.

I now work at a foundry, we sort the differing grades of metal and that is the way to the best prices, basically if your gonna cost em to sort it out you WILL get less for it, also if you try to use the same one regularly you will get a better price, especially if you sort it all out for em.

 

[chunkymunky]

So when i strip my disco....

Shell, doors and chassis.

Whats alli
Whats steel?
Will break them down.... i like ripping stuff apart .....its the putting back together i cant do

 

[naughtyboy]

put wings roof etc separate on your disco as ally as are other panels,
will end up with mixture of clean and dirty ally make sure you tell em doors are dirty ally.
also take wiper window motors and starter /alt out and weigh in as motors worth more.
pull your loom out and weigh in separate.
if engine knacked a lot of ally bits on it pull them off worth more than leaving them in, pistons are ally as well if you want to go that far.
stripped a couple apart last year to make one good one, ended up with 372 by sorting all bits out.
and prices are now higher.

 

[chunkymunky]

Cheers! This could be a useful stickie. We all have scrap from time to time

 

[rednobyellownob]

Laws will be changing soon, probably need I.D., and no cash payments, will it be worth the smaller amounts like ours after storage etc?

 

[chunkymunky]

Of course. I dont mind it straight in account as not enough to worry taxman

 

[trax99]

Laws will be changing soon, probably need I.D., and no cash payments, will it be worth the smaller amounts like ours after storage etc?

the changes are, to some degree, a good thing - metal thievin is getting way beyond a joke, there is usually at least one story a week of some thievin sod blowing up a sub station/railline/whatever. Dont get me wrong I dont give a monkeys about the scrote, but the disruption to the rest of us or danger caused by missing drain covers is no joke.
anyway around here you already need id when you weigh stuff in - its not exactly a major thing is it?

 

[Paul D]

Laws will be changing soon, probably need I.D., and no cash payments, will it be worth the smaller amounts like ours after storage etc?

Already do near me, but it's no problem, all I do is keep dropping stuff in me trailer and weigh it in when it's full .. no storage costs, it's in the back garden!

They also know me and they know a lot of my stuff is from a school (I'm a school caretaker) so would be quite unusual for 'normal' people to be passing off .. chair frames, desk frames, computer cases, allsorts stuff ... as well as my Landrover/other vehicle bits.

In my view the ID is 'a good thing'.

 

[fanatic]

As a rough guide car loom £8 car batteries by weight and if your weighing a car in cat,wheels and battery off for more money. Put **** you need shot off in rear footwell and wind seat down and put metal on top. 24 hours before soak rear seat.
If you can break a car to component parts you can easily get £300 from an escort by stripping,selling and scrapping