Scrap Metal

[TechnoTurkey]

I'm in the (long) process of breaking my Rangie at the moment, I anticipate that in the future I am likely to be left with a pile of body panels and a chassis.

What is the best way to get rid of, and hopefully get some cash for, these?  Should I chop it up into manageable pieces and take it to a scrap metal yard or any other suggestions?

Cheers

[V8MoneyPit]

You will generally get more if you sort it into different metals and chop it up into smaller pieces. A complete chassis is deemed 'oversize' scrap at our local site and they pay a little less for it. So I chopped mine up!

[Paul332]

You will generally get more if you sort it into different metals and chop it up into smaller pieces. A complete chassis is deemed 'oversize' scrap at our local site and they pay a little less for it. So I chopped mine up!

As above, also when I worked in the scarp game we used to have a free pickup service, may be a idea to phone your local yards to see if they do this.

[TechnoTurkey]

Good advice, cheers guys.

Any idea what sort of return I could expect?

[V8MoneyPit]

Good advice, cheers guys.

Any idea what sort of return I could expect?

Not a lot at the moment! It has gone back up a little, but the dizzy heights of last year are now a distant memory!

[J.D.]

Depends on how much is left of it, maybe somewhere between 50 and 100 quid I would think.

[trecfive]

Good advice, cheers guys.

Any idea what sort of return I could expect?

Not a lot at the moment! It has gone back up a little, but the dizzy heights of last year are now a distant memory!

£120.00 a ton at Kingsbury last week for light iron

[william127]

 £120 a tonne? thats whot i was getting last summer,  thats quite good.

[sardonicus]

I got £65 for my old scrap fiesta van a couple of weeks ago.Collected by a registered disposal co. which i was pretty chuffed with  :)
The Certificate Of Destruction was a little disappointing  though,I imagined a nicely written page with fancy writing and scrolls and stuff ,but it was just a black and white typed page :'(

[Mark Y]

I got £115 for Disco body shell, no engine,gearbox or rear axle 

[robert francis]

i collect scrap after work in my spare time, it pays for everything on my truck from spares to insurance and tax and some toys for it, im working so much harder this year, last summer i was getting £145 a tonne today i got £55  :'(

but you gotta atke the good with the bad

[disco-nut]

it was £45 a tonne about 3 weeks ago, now its at £150 in norwich.

[hairyasswelder]

i collect scrap after work in my spare time, it pays for everything on my truck from spares to insurance and tax and some toys for it, im working so much harder this year, last summer i was getting £145 a tonne today i got £55  :'(

but you gotta atke the good with the bad

True..... but people are more willing to part with it when its worh less  ;) ;)

At work I used to leave my trailer and tip it when it was full.  When the prices rocketed the boss got a skip  :( :(
Now it is low again the skip costs him money  :lol: :lol: :lol:

Steve

[Range Rover Blues]

It always goes up at the end of the summer, then the scapmen go on holiday and  they price falls for months.  Last year there were all the rumours about eh Chinese stockpiling steel before the olyimpics, then later in the year they were turning steel away at the docks because they couldn't use it any more.

A lot of their demends for steel is to make containers to ship consumer goods to the west, you can pick up a container now for little more than it's scrap value because we no longer make anything that can be exported by container.