Fordmad!

Ive been collecting scrap now for the past 3 years, as im self employed its a nice little sideline as a van full is around £100 and I usually do 1 a month.

Just recently ive been obsessed with it even thinking of buying a drop side transit.........im a Window Cleaner by trade, turning into a right pikey!!!

TOMMY_RS

dingla rs

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you can clean there windows and take there scrap

johnandhissaffy

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mate keep doing it i say everyone starts somewhere and you never know in years to come it might even become a business for ya look a the fella who made tesco he started with a shopping trollie full of veg and now look at him gl

ajamesc

gypo lol na u can make good money doing it i work for daf and we have a metal skip that we weigh in every mounth or so 14 of us just all went to goodwood with some of the money it pays for all are work piss ups and days out we easy do a grand a year off it! But we do get the gypos round all the time telling us its not worth anything and they will take it away for free lol

Fordmad!

Yeah as a sideline it makes would rather earn the bit of extra cash, pays for some of my car at least

rsfido_1989

i keep scrap taps and all scrap copper thats from ripping out my bathrooms and kitchens at work, its a nice little bonus for building the misses fiesta for her first car, bought with scrap money, build with scrap money, when its dead ill break it for scrap money

rs1072

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lol

mrjenrst

it's virtually free money mate
I took 500kg of clean copper the other month and got £1875.

yellowsierra

Free money indeed....
... This week i am replacing an old porch for a customer.

Take down the old one and its make of ALLY...nice, so i weighed it in and got £65

So i got that on top of what i am getting for building the new one

dazoriginal

nothing wrong there mate
a nice little earner ,you really want copper thats where the money is

wirralphil

Hardly the same tho is it.

Bit like me saying i'm going to become a paperboy again and becoming a Newspaper publications owner

bubs_rsturbo

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i love scrap

nothing wrong with a sideline of it mate, wouldnt fancy it being my only way of income tho lol

AJ-RST1

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im a aluminium door and patio fabricator, company also makes windows too, as im number 2 in the business basically run the shopfloor i get a cut from the gypo that the scrap from us, normally get extra 200 quid a month from it.

Fordmad!

Yeah it is a nice little earner. Wuld have 2 be in it big time to live of it tho!!

Copper is definatly where it is but you try finding it

Mike C

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Also being in aluminium I get a nice few quid a month in scrap too. Anything from £200-£2000 generally. Usually get a few hundred quid just in swarf.

StephenC

My uncle deals in the stuff and never even touches it, just buys and sells, made a very pretty penny out of it. I get copper weighed in every year at christmas, softens the blow of christmas quite a bit.

Fordmad!

As the saying goes 'You never see a poor scrap man' Lol

yellowsierra

or a poor pickie

mrjenrst

i know where.'s there's about 10 ton of clean copper bar, but work would be well pissed if i pinched it lol

bristol_fez

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It is good, dropped some copper off the other day and noticed that clean copper is at £4000/tonne

24vcossiemat

i got skint in jan 2008 and put my trailer on the 406 diesel on went knocking on peoples doors. had a set of a bars with me.. i was making 3-400 quid a week. it was 150 quid a ton then. look for precious metals mate, copper, zinc, heating elements, cast iron, and lead. there well good for money.

DaveEscos

fucking pikeys!

rsdan2evn

I know were there is hundred of grands worth of copper, but work would not like it.

Fordmad!

If you no where there is a hundred grands worth then get it! Id risk being caught for that! Yeah copper is good money Ive got 50kg of it to weigh in today

Pikeys have the right idea no matter how much you hate them. There is one near me who bought a deralict farm and turned it into a mini scrap yard.....he is minted!!!!

snoopaloopa

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I weigh in copper quite often but its not worth anywhere near as much as the Phosphour Bronze I weigh in as well even cast is making good money again, its all good
Does make a nice little bonus though, paid to take it out, paid to replace it and then paid to weigh it in lol

Fordmad!

Im at it again! Had no work on today so went scrap hunting and picked up about £40 worth in about an hour and half.

Not bad really, feel a right gypo doing it but needs must and all that Lol

Graceland

Needs must mate - Bills to be paid and all that

I have a corner behind the garage with a fair bit of ally/copper/other shit piling up nicely, pays for my fuel for the month

danneth

been a sparky i usually weight some of the scrap in if i cba, other week we ripped some data and old sockets from an office that is been converted into a snooker hall, only took us 20 mins and 10 mins to go and weigh it in got £322 better then nowt imo

vaughant

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Fancied doing it myself to make some more $$$ but I'm not sure about the carriers licence etc.got a good 4x4 and trailer but then u get tied up in this tachograph shit,nice sideline though.we get loads of gypos down the yard asking for scrap,their generally ok.one of the boys I know does it full time,transit tipper but he's not a gyp,he reckons every cunts trying to make a living on it and although the moneys good,it's getting harder to find stuff available so he's out a lot longer,travelling a bit further but he gets by.
He does a bit of rubbish clearance as well which helps the cashflow nicely!!!

1.9 xr2 on 40's

i was piling up aerials and alu poles to weight in but never bother so ive put em all in a scrap fiesta shell i need taken away, it'll go for free, if theres money in it good luck to whoever takes it

i know a guy who used to remove scrap cars for a fiver or 5, made money both ways, bought new car strucks etc with the proceeds, nice chap too and cheap enough to not bother myself

Fordmad!

There is money to be made but would need to be in it big time to make decent money! I would love to do it full time but as people say everyone is doing it now which does make it hard to find, but look hard enough its still out there!

StephenC

whats a good price for pure Iron??

AJC

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I work next to a scrappers. And I work with steel, it bodes well

white2lsr

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I've started taking scrap from work and sticking it in my garage. I work for a large bus company as a fitter so get all sorts ball joints, wheel rims, radiators etc. Anything that is replaced on a bus basically. Not sure if you get much for mixed scrap but ill weigh it in before Christmas and see what I get.

Fordmad!

Just paid for my holiday to Ibiza with car batteries, copper and stainless! Chuffed aint the word!!

gingeRS

whats copper worth then, we just chuck it in the bin here

phil_rs

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I also have an unhealthy obsession with scrap metal, although it's usually in the shape of a Ford!

phil_rs

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Are ya mad!? Me and the old man stripped a small house of it's copper pipe and water tank and got £190

Fordmad!

Throwing copper in the bin