My mate (yappstar) rang me today needing a hand lifting and moving some scrap metal and weighing it in... Went and loaded up his van, left and headed off to the scrapyard.

...got there, went onto the weight bridge, unloaded the van, went to claim the money for 260kg of steel, turned out to be a whopping...!!!




































*drumroll*































£6.50!!!!



I thought there was a big demand for steel? LOL

 

Fuck all demand for steel................ unless you have fucking LOADS of it...ie 2 ton is about £250 near me

The money is in Copper......£3200 per Tonne

 

Hi the price of scrap has fallen a hell of a lot in the recent few weeks, eg from over £230 per tonne for cars down to about £40 the other week as i was taking to my local to the local scrap yard owner the other day

 

260kg of steel for £6.50. ?
i scrapped a car at 1150kg and got £160 for it a few months ago. thats a fair old drop.

 

A yard near me offered me £250 for my Mondeo in July, went back there a week ago and only got offered £80, the owner of the yard says the value of steel has fallen in the last few weeks.

 

its been dropping £10 a day for last 2 weeks

 

Lucky to get £1500 for a ton of copper now! Prices are that bad the yard I'm at paid off 4 lads this week, and I was one of them

Chinese aren't buying anything at all now so all the scrappies are left with tons of scrap they paid top price for and can't sell to anyone now. Ally went from 80p a kilo to 25p in the last 3 weeks and looks like things will get worse.

 

The ar5e has fell right out of scrap I'm affraid.
I weighed in just over a tonne on Friday and got just £30

 

yeah, its £30 per tonne now.

it peaked at £260 in birmingham

 

Wenny got 14 whole quid for a 306 shell the other day they shut the gates on the local scrap metal mechants near to us last week because they were full.

 

Havent you noticed all the pikeys have fooked off from every town with a 'Pikey-Bank', I mean scrap yard.

 

my mate got £190 for an old mk2 fiesta not so long since

 

Is Copper Still Good

 

yeah, and lead. but if you have any i'd trade it in sooner rather than later

 

we got £45 for a saxo the other day, and it was full to the roof with scrap. some yards now have the problem that they have bought all their stuff at peak price, and its now worth fuck all, before they have had time to process it!

 

what about cat pipes? iv got about 20 from work lol

 

looks like my christmas copper fund is worth fook all then

 

was 250 a ton around here,now they have stacks of cars they paid 200 for that are worth 4.50 a ton wow,had it good for a long time mind

 

cats are only getting about £20 now last one i took about 6weeks ago i got £45 for. bit of a shit as ive got 2 i need to weigh in

 

Christmas copper fund - pmsl Fuzzy, classic!!

 

to right mate, if plumbers are careless enough to leave the copper pipes lying around on sites then its my duty to liberate them.

 

i got 30 for a mk3 fiesta on saturday

 

all scrap has dropped,as said 3 months ago say a cavilier size car would have been £180 off the floor that is(ie no wheels) now its about £40-50,tat yard i use in brum taronis said steel was at £35 a ton,lowest its been for a loooooong time,there was a lad weighing in a bit of copper and he went back to the cashier 3 times saying ''that must be wrong mate,are your scales broke'' lol,

 

definatly a good time to invest in scrap if you have the spare space (luckily ive almost 50 acres),it will come back in about 12-18 months as things pick up again,until then i am just stockpiling it,ive got about 12 tonnes sat in my yard now,i reckon on getting at least 100 tonnes in the next 12 months,then hopefully it will be back up over £120 a tonne.

 

took a car in last sat,loaded to the top with engines and metal,thing was on the floor,got 50 quid for it,madness

 

We getting no steel boats in at work at the mo, normally get one/two a month exporting near 60,000 ton's worth, but there havent been any...supposed to be in one next week taking 33,000 ton rebar and thats it till after crimbo!!

 

I sold £16k worth of s/s rebar a few months ago to a local council prob cost them WAY less now. We stockpiled mesh to avoid increases oooooooops

 

Took 250kg of copper up there last Friday and got £742

 

whats 316 stainless going for roughly ?

 

it was only due to chinas demand so the prices rocketed, they closed the doors and the price plumeted.

cant se it rising to much to be honest, maybe back to 70 a ton

 

you might as well have just given the scrap to your local pikey ,probably cost you more than £6.50 in fuel

 

Wasn't my van/fuel LOL, I did laugh though when I see "£6.50"

 

aye its down here too - i got £220 for a Laguna about 3 months ago which was seized now your gettin £60 a car and it has to be running!

 

£6.50 2 men 2 hours that's one hell of a labour rate lol

 

how much is lead going for at the mo? got about 200kg sat about

 

leave it sat about,its a great investment left where it is.forget about it for a few years.

 

thats whats happening with my copper, it will sit in my garage until its worth taking again, the last year i was getting approx £200 a month from stripping cable out at work.