Scrap metal prices

[ne jones]

Just wondered what price steel (as in steel car wheels) was fetching at the moment?
Anyone know?

[V8MoneyPit]

I would hazard a guess at around £100 per tonne. We took 1.25 tonnes of cast iron in a few weeks ago and came out with £240!

I'd heard that copper had topped £4000 per tonne recently  :shock:

[4 landies]

 Last week by me steel was fetching £180 per tonne

[ne jones]

I just 'weighed in' 4x steel wheels, 7x15.

Perhaps cause of constantly hearing about short supply and excessive demand I expected to get a little more than £5 for them, they weighed in @ 46kg.

[muddyweb]

That'd be just over £100/tonne..   which is about right.

[robert francis]

hi in south wales steel is fetching around £135 - £140 a ton


its great on my rounds doing my work i collect scrap, if i see something knock and normally there fine with you taking it,
it pays for everything i need to service / mod and run my disco, i call it free motoring

[carbore]

Our hot water tank blew last week, I wasnt there but told the misses to make sure the plumber diddnt helpfully take it away! he looked disappointed apparently, I also have a spare one out the flat we are converting so they are destined for the piggy bank!

[V8MoneyPit]

Our hot water tank blew last week, I wasnt there but told the misses to make sure the plumber diddnt helpfully take it away! he looked disappointed apparently, I also have a spare one out the flat we are converting so they are destined for the piggy bank!

When we were there waiting to get in with our cast iron, they were moving hot water tanks around. Stacked about 10 on the front of a fork lift. And they were contantly back and forth with loads  :shock:

[robert francis]

its that the copper type, if so average there about £35- £40 depending on the weight, i got a copper water tank from an old peoples home, it was 4mm thick and it was around 4ft  and stood about 6ft tall, i cant belive they give it to me.it was 170 kilos, and £2.70 a kilo i was laughing, that was the insurance and tax paid for a year, haha

its getting hard as everyones doing it.

[robert francis]

when i last took my scrap down, i done 2 runs and on the 3rd i only had about £40 worth on the van and coz i had been twice he already had my unloaded wieght, so he told me to stay off the scales and he would work it out from the previous weight,
i forgot to mention i had about half a tonne for a job i was on the way to, so i got paid for that aswell so a real good day was had, haha

[AndyMacG]

I took a load of scrap well actually 17tonne  in today for my gaffer as we are clearing the new premises out  and was amazed at getting £135 a ton  the boss thought christmass had come early got another load to take in tommorrow

[robert francis]

hope he gave you a good drink, lol

[ausieg]

I got 205 pound a ton in Coventry last thursday.

[robert francis]

ive been told in cardiff its £200 a tonne, i might have to try it on my next load, see if its true

[marjan]

It must be good as we have had a load of roadside grates nicked on our estate recently  :roll: :roll: :roll:

[V8MoneyPit]

It must be good as we have had a load of roadside grates nicked on our estate recently  :roll: :roll: :roll:

Yes, well that's the downside of the rocketing prices  :| If there's money to be made from something, there will be some lowlife stealing it.

[Boggert]

It must be good as we have had a load of roadside grates nicked on our estate recently  :roll: :roll: :roll:

Yes, well that's the downside of the rocketing prices  :| If there's money to be made from something, there will be some lowlife stealing it.

Thats the problem there are plenty of lowlifes stealing it at the moment.

[marjan]

As a gas fitter I used to be allowed to book out a box of copper fittings from our stores when I needed some for a job, now I have to account for every single fitting and every bit of copper tubing that I use on a job  :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

[graham]

Whats stainless steel worth i have about 2 1/2 tons of 316 in a machine.

[robert francis]

aslong as its stainless not shiney steel, if the magnet dont stick its stainless, i got 95p a kilo

[robert francis]

henry mate thats around £100,000 pounds, lucky the gypsies didnt no what you had, haha

[edy]

its good that we canpossible make money from scrap. but unfortunatly there has been stories of people going into houses being done up and being stripped of the wire and pipes, drain covers go missing even whole bus stops!! and the scrap man taking them! but the worst (well in my opinion anway, dont know bout anyone else) is when they are nickin stuff like comerative plates from grave yards etc. i just think thats a different kind of low..

just my opinion :)

[Tommo]

They stole the war memorial from by us a few years back. Very very low.

[Boggert]

I'm fed up with the scrap collectors, they are a pain in the backside.

They will steal anything, we have had tractors straded with batteries stolen, to churches and houses stripped for lead and copper.

[robert francis]

my brother works on site, and a couple of months ago some low lifes broke in and chopped sections of pipe out that had been fitted and stripped and stole 30k of copper wire in 1 weekend  [-X

[ne jones]

One of the thieving gits died just by us last year.
He was stealing from a building site and grabbed a live cable. Frazzle frazzle, shock, dead.

[mentalmoshio sophs V8i]

i was told a few days ago cars where 140 now 70 quid  :doh:

[diggerdog36]

We were checking the prices on-line for mag-alloy, the scrap we have at work was then weighed......£61,000.  We also have a 1.5tonne section of aircraft that holds the wings made of titanium!! Oh I wish it would fit in the disco!!!

[Lincs niva]

Scrap down here is fetching about £140 a ton

Cheers Gav

[graham]

aslong as its stainless not shiney steel, if the magnet dont stick its stainless, i got 95p a kilo

It's stainless steel food grade 316 propper stuff, worth taking it in then at 95p or should i hold onto it a bit longer, been stood around for 3 years.