Learning the Trade
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Thank You All.
Replies are Appreciated.
And definitely worthy tip’s.
Replies are Appreciated.
And definitely worthy tip’s.
If a skip is on the public highway, grass verge , pavement etc and not on private property they anyone is entitled to take, AND PUT, things !That's illegal, or are you not bothered enough to report them?
We tend to have a lot of properly useless steel on the farm, old rusted out stuff. With the price of mixed metal being so low, it's much easier to let one of the local scrap merchants come round whenever he wants and just take it.
Aye. Throw it on a box for future lathe or mill useI find i use everything i buy new or old and never take any scrap into yards and ime sure the fellow hobbyist must be the same
Definitely. Some off cuts will always come in handy. That’s what I will be looking to do. Salvage from the collection that accumulates.Aye. Throw it on a box for future lathe or mill use
If a skip is on the public highway, grass verge , pavement etc and not on private property they anyone is entitled to take, AND PUT, things !
I use our trailer to do the scrap run with batteries, I do it on behalf of the boat yard/marina, they get the money, for me, it stops the trailer just sitting about for very long periods without being used, and I can use the marina workshop and tools. Took two tons of batteries in yes exactly two tons, two of their plastic containers one was full and just under a ton the other filled and weight was just over 1 ton both added was 2 tons, just over 80 batteries mostly leisure batteries from boats (100-110amp) just over £1000ish but I know the price has gone down since, was looking at the pile already growing, (35) last run was just before Xmas
Good grief, where do you work to get that many scrap batteries? Tesla?
Even finding something in the road and taking it for your own is stealing.
Ahhh! But is it? I once disturbed a couple of yoofs trying to break into one of our compounds. They ran off leaving a very nice and very large Snap On screwdriver on the pavement. That was about twenty five years ago. I still have it, that my friend is Crime Prevention!
Sometimes (not often) you get to win.
I do not trust travelling scrap men at all - ingrained from a very early age of my dad having something stolen from a long way up our drive having previously told one it wasn't for taking. So all my scrap gets taken to a local scrappers - I've been astounded by what I've got back on occasion -
I do not trust travelling scrap men at all - ingrained from a very early age of my dad having something stolen from a long way up our drive having previously told one it wasn't for taking.