Scrap metal

[Philsutton]

Been to the scrap yard this morning to weigh in some metal we had collected at work, we had some right hefty girders and I wasnt expecting much for them. But it turns out scrap for steel / iron has gone through the roof, I got £266 per ton when only a few months ago it was about £60-£80 per ton.

I would watch out for gypo's robbing everything left right an centre seeing as its fetching some serious money.

Think I need to go for drive an find me loads of dumped scrap.

[Sherco]

Yeah the scrap prices have gone mad, Stainless steel here is £900 a ton!

[Philsutton]

I just got paid £1300 per ton for stainless lol

[hendrix]

thats really really good phil.
I got £150/ton for a scrap car I took the other month and £900 on the stainless steel.
Ended up breaking even, after doing 7k miles on my last ebay special ;-) and its epic MOT failure lol 4 pages of fail notes anyone?

[CoupeUK]

I'm in the recovery game and are on good terms with a local crap merchant, last week I weighed in:

1 Renault 19 16v
1 Fiat Punto
3 1970's Land Rovers
1 Nova
1 Polo
1 Astra
3 washing machines
a cooker
aswell as a few other bits and made about £1300 in my pocket. The pikeys round this way are out in force in anything with a HIAB, they took £50k's worth of brand new unused Armco, 9 digger buckets, 3 £10k reels of copper cable, a skip, and about 20 old lampposts off a few of our bases!

I been on the hunt about for scrap, found a few of the old grass rollers laying about so i'll be off to uplift them later ( I have got the owners consent :)).

Some of the lads that so the recovery alongside me are buying old cars off customers when the break down for anything up to £50 then weighing them in for more at the merchants.......

I been using a few tips to get more money aswell which helps haha

[hendrix]

always weigh the alloys in separately if you can ;-)

In my line of work (railway) were always having copper cable and old rails go missing. Mostly copper cable. One instance, we installed 800 yards of cable, 2 hours later it was gone. Pikeys on quad bikes cut it at both ends, tied one end to a quad and drove off with it, dragging it out the trackside troughing. big big problem.
They've been stealing street signs (40 mph signs etc) and also manhole covers

[chimp007_uk]

I had my GTE shell stolen a couple of weeks ago :s

[CoolTiger]

it was 140/ton when i weight my nova in

[SGA33]

I weighed in an escort xr3 with rs turbo alloys that had been stood on a friends drive for ages.He gave me it for free thinking i would strip it for parts but i just went and weighed it in and got £270 for it.When i was last talking to someone in the know they reckoned it would be up to £300 a ton by september.:eek:

[hendrix]

hmm time to scrap the barge (calibra) I thinks!

[coombsey]

how heavy is a nova shell lol

[tom_beverley]

Not very since it mostly rust! lol

[FUSION X16XE]

For a set of four TSW stealths i got £86, but when we took them down there they wanted the tyres off so had to call my mate (mobile tyre fitter) up to come remove them so gave him a 10er. Down the seafront all the public toilets and what not have lead roofs and people have tryed removing them a couple of times. what has the best price per ton? steel, stainless, copper, lead.....?

[Philsutton]

Coppper at the moment, its around £3000 if its good grade stuff, although its just dropped recently.

[draper]

the corsas fate has just been decided then

where did you take your metal phil ??

[Adam]

Whats the going rate to weigh in alloy?

[Ben]

Alloy is about £1000 a ton in Bristol for wheel grade (high grade)

[Philsutton]

Yeah ally isnt bad either, still managed 800 odd for crap grade stuff as well. I went to Sims behide showcase in nottingham. Apparently it burnt down last week but I went they were still taking metal in lol

[Dod]

****TT!!

I just saw this post.

I have A Calibra, Senitor, Astra and a Nova, all complete for scrap. Spare engines, cast Iron Manifolds, lots of Alloy Mounts, Battreys, Radiators and Starters/Altinators sitting ready to go. I also got loads of Copper and lead. Ah this is great!!

[Kinky Monza]

The bloke that owns the farm where i keep the horses has gone mental cleaning up the old scrap metal!

He loaded the big trailer up the other day with cast iron/steel/copper etc, must've got a fair bit for that!

[Rexy]

jesus, you boys are getting a lot more than up here. it's £126 a ton at J doyals near me. we weighted in a car and some other crap and only got £160 quid for it... i feel gutted now your getting so much lol.

still its free money considering it was just ****e lying around.

[NovaLad]

Gypo's were out last night.

In teh rusty pick up with flat tyre lol.

[Mike]

Looks like my Cav is going to the scrappers then :D weight the funker in. Copper is £4 a kg here, ive got no idea for steel but ive got just over half a ton of steel cladding to dipsose of aswell.

[djbrowney]

dont forget to take the cat of before you weight the car in aswell, there fetching £55 just on there own :thumb:

[Mazz]

My Dad had better not find out how much scrap is worth, he'll have the Nova down there in a flash!

Anyone know how much lead is fetching..?

[Dod]

Wow, I just got a quote....

Cats, €50 each
Lead, 50c per kilo

Didnt bother getting a price for Alu and Copper.

*******s!!

[Kinky Monza]

Dod are the prices not different over there?

[Dod]

Apparently so...

[Kinky Monza]

Drive a van over with it then lol

[big gra]

I'm in the recovery game and are on good terms with a local crap merchant, last week I weighed in:

1 Renault 19 16v
1 Fiat Punto
3 1970's Land Rovers
1 Nova
1 Polo
1 Astra
3 washing machines
a cooker
aswell as a few other bits and made about £1300 in my pocket. The pikeys round this way are out in force in anything with a HIAB, they took £50k's worth of brand new unused Armco, 9 digger buckets, 3 £10k reels of copper cable, a skip, and about 20 old lampposts off a few of our bases!

I been on the hunt about for scrap, found a few of the old grass rollers laying about so i'll be off to uplift them later ( I have got the owners consent :)).

Some of the lads that so the recovery alongside me are buying old cars off customers when the break down for anything up to £50 then weighing them in for more at the merchants.......

I been using a few tips to get more money aswell which helps haha

shocking, you scrapped the series 3 land rovers :cry: