Jobsworth at the tip.

[hareng]

All the three local council tips round here work to rule.
That has its benefits because whenever you dump the ownership changes hands. What this means is if by some chance you dumped and wanted it back a few minutes later, its not yours. On the other hand chuck in green with steels, wood and so forth, once dumped its not your property, make em work for a living.

 

[Psymon]

hareng - I like your style...

 

[bill_gj]

Nice tip, as it were.

Psymon! Just seen your location, we is almost neighbours, innit.

 

[Psymon]

Wonderful Essex, well Halstead to be exact.
Still looking for plenty of metal to stick together. Today I will pop out to Braintree and have a look at the scrap yards there. Wont bother with council run tips - best let them have the hassle of recycling stuff.
Another thing - about a year ago I had a load of lengths of Ali from a greenhouse that I never put up. Rather than stick it in the black landfill bin I thought I would stick it in recycling. Now dinks cans are Ali right? So a load of pure Ali would be ok? Nope - they refused to take the bin claiming contamination.

 

[snowcat]

you want metal recyclers rather than scrap yards, these are normally Vehicle dismantles these days, best place is benfleet scrap, (know as Franklins to most) Iv bought lots of bits from them (mostly ex railway tanks) over the years, also convoy commercials is worth a look...... and Dolmen's is another.. had about 30 tons of bits and pieces when they were decommissioning shell haven........

 

[Psymon]

Benfleet Scrap

I know the place. Been there many times in the past. I am a bit of a distance from Benfleet but often go and see family there so I shall have to pop in and see what I can get.
When I was much younger than I am today (about 14) I used to find dumped car batteries and drop them in there for about 50p - £1 each for the scrap lead.
I also remember 'finding' a load of copper pipes in a skip and took it to them for a couple of quid. Ahhh the good old days.

 

[Coo]

Scout around for different tips... worth travelling sometimes

Some council ones up here have not got the built up skips, and are 'walk-in'

So you can usually get metal from them okay... last haul was a couple of metal bed frame sides to make an H stand for my beetle body...
built stands but never used them

 

[bucko]

We were taking concrete from a diy job to a council tip and apparently we visited to often and on the forth trip that day we took two bottles of wine (the cheep stuff we got on the trips to France for a bout 50p each ) next thing you know the worker is coming over to complain, out comes the two bottles and he didn’t see anything
works well when trying to get the bin men to take more than they should as well