Scrapyard madness

[HopefullySoon]

While never having worked for hewden , I have worked for speedy on the transport side (heavys)

Waste of useful equipment is criminal .

2 year old digger .... 1200 hrs ish , broke down on a major duel carriage way in Liverpool .

"Hiab it out , drop it off at EMR , Dock Rd "

No fitter sent , just crane it away and scrap it !

 

[Climber]

I agree whole heartedly with you explanation, your words though, its business but end with getting a few hundred quid , now being pedantic , if its business how come a few hundred quid is not income, some tax to pay, a little paperwork but some so called business man has just thrown £££££s straight in the bin. oh yes it impresses me .

obviously not a dig at you just the stupidity of waste, a tool/machine or what ever that can be recycled is very important these days and then the disregard of monies to be made out of it.

Ignoring some stupid company policies, people trying to avoid liability, staff laziness, avoidance of paperwork and many other reasons, sometimes it's just a simple mathematical decision. When I had employees using climbing kit, I used to dump the kit and buy new every year, rather than wasting time and effort having to comply with LOLER testing requirements. Equally, when I stored loads of surplus materials from jobs it was less cost effective than simply binning the lot. I was paying £100 quid per month at the time to rent a storage container in which to keep it. Obviously, if I spent less than a grand a year rebuying stuff that i'd thrown away, I'd be quids in. If you take the time of my employees and me into account, binning stuff makes even more sense. Obviously there are exceptions to these rules, having stuff in stock saving time, being an obvious example.

 

[Climber]

I’m ACCA but prefer the management accounting side like CIMA to the reporting side as in what ACA do. It’s much interesting to help a client grow and understand all the financial side rather than just deal with them at the year end.

That was my reason for asking. Obviously a management accountant has very different views on these things to a tax accountant.

 

[pressbrake1]

In my van

 

[mtt.tr]

View attachment 200022 In my van

Good man.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

In my van

Did portraits of Betty change hands?

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

If the hire companies didn't trash their end of life kit but let people have it there would be fewer people needing to hire equipment.

As for the MOD, add to that all the misordered stuff that gets buried to cover up mistakes. Still, it gets a laugh down the pub when people tell the stories.

My 12" Stihl saw. Big Hilti breaker tower scaffold.
Wacker plate and a few other bits are all ex hire. Like buying ex hire gear. Usually looked after pretty well.

 

[jordhandson]

View attachment 200022 In my van

Well done that was making me sad spot on

 

[bricol]

Thing is, space in a factory cost money - it needs to be used to make money, not sat under dead machines and components on the off chance it will come in. It's costing more money to have an ever increasing pile of stuff than getting rid.
Looks a shame to those of us with a shed (or three) full of stuff that'll be useful . . . one day . . .

 

[Hood]

Thing is, space in a factory cost money - it needs to be used to make money, not sat under dead machines and components on the off chance it will come in. It's costing more money to have an ever increasing pile of stuff than getting rid.
Looks a shame to those of us with a shed (or three) full of stuff that'll be useful . . . one day . . .

It is not so much the getting rid of it as the method of doing so.

 

[pressbrake1]

It is not so much the getting rid of it as the method of doing so.

And said firm that couldn’t be bothered to dispose of machine properly will have you hand grinding end mills as they’re to mean to blow a fiver on a new one. Ive been there

 

[slim_boy_fat]

It is not so much the getting rid of it as the method of doing so.

That's because of the 'liability' culture. If some Muppet stuck his hand where it oughtn't to be, six months down the line, somehow it'd turn out to be the fault of the Company which sold/gave away the hardware....

 

[Hood]

That's because of the 'liability' culture. If some Muppet stuck his hand where it oughtn't to be, six months down the line, somehow it'd turn out to be the fault of the Company which sold/gave away the hardware....

They could easily have called in a machinery dealer and got a lot more than the £30 for less effort and zero liability.
The machinery dealer would have given them a low price and sold for top price but at least the machine would have survived, thankfully in this case it did but that seems to have only been by luck.

I was once helping a friend repair a huge hydraulic scrap guillotine, we were sat 30ft in the air dismantling the cylinder when a truck came in with some stuff from a school, I spied a lovely box/pan folder in pristine condition and jumped down to say I would have it, by the time I got there the grab had bent and twisted it out of shape so much it was indeed now scrap, it still hurts me thinking about it.

 

[pressbrake1]

That's because of the 'liability' culture. If some Muppet stuck his hand where it oughtn't to be, six months down the line, somehow it'd turn out to be the fault of the Company which sold/gave away the hardware....

Im saying stupidity, look how many asset disposal auctions there are by major plc’s with no worry about liabilities.
Dealers can be good.
I got my lovely dsg 17x40 for £80 as that what the dealer offered them for it.
I got a elliot sturdymill from my then employer for free.
At first they wouldn’t even sell it to me but when a dealer offered them £500 but it would cost £800 for them to collect it was mine

 

[Morris]

The company I worked for would do this. I acquired a rack and pinion press and stacks of tooling (including Louvre tooling, hole punches round and square etc), sheet metal rolls, brand new twin cylinder compressor, dairy pipe, Facom roll cab,s an own brand of roll cab and top box and loads of tooling. I missed out on a box and pan folder, plasma cutter and more.
Anything returned worth less than £400 was scrapped!

 

[pressbrake1]

Madness update. This machine, a spanish Bridgeport clone so nice machine.
I saved it

 

[ronan]

View attachment 201099 Madness update. This machine, a spanish Bridgeport clone so nice machine.
I saved it

I've used Ajax machines before, found them fine.

 

[mtt.tr]

View attachment 201099 Madness update. This machine, a spanish Bridgeport clone so nice machine.
I saved it

Looks better built than a bridgy

 

[pressbrake1]

Looks better built than a bridgy

Got about half a tonne on a bridgy

 

[mtt.tr]

Got about half a tonne on a bridgy

I dont get the Bridgeport buzz, much like southbends.