Today I acquired...........

[mr migwire]

It's amazing what gets binned, every time I go to the tip it makes me sad, you used to be able to help yourself but not now. I know a guy who used to deal with the plant used on Railtrack contracts. Once this stuff got to a certain age it would be scrapped, the contract had already paid way more than the cost of buying it. This guy and others had to take lorry loads of stuff and watch them put grinders through the side engines to make sure they were not used again. Why they could put them into a machinery auction I have no idea as there are no comebacks. Obviously there was quite a bit of stuff that escaped before it could be slaughtered

could be doing with some of that kind of kit at the railway preservation group i volunteer with, network rail are tight ar$ ed and hard to get anything out of...

 

[sardine]

A few years ago I saw a bloke wheeling a brand new 12 v marine fridge freezer to the bins in a marina. I went to get my wheels, and wheeled it to my boat expecting it to be goosed. Absolutely nothing wrong with it, and I sold it the same day for £300 .

Posh boaters tend to leave a trail of unwanted chandlery behind them where ever they go. ( thank god )

 

[ukracer]

Today I acquired

a Hard Top for My Navara for the princely total of £21....

 

[antonio costa]

Not exactly today but yesterday morning I made a great deal on a Optrel auto mask, it was the last one that they had. I saw it up online and run to the store do buy it, cound't let a deal like this fly away.
http://www.paljor.pt/lojaonline/index.php?id_product=371&controller=product

In £ it was about 40£, great deal in my umble opinion.
I was really needing a new auto dark helmet

 

[antonio costa]

here it is, the ones with the more cool graphics were already sold out the only one left was the plain black one

 

[owas]

When did schools start just scrapping things?
My primary school always had clear outs of old tables/desks/chairs/ shelving ect for cheap rather than chucking it away

 

[ukracer]

When they got sued for a desk breaking and dropping on someones foot....its called the American culture.

 

[anjum]

Nothing compared to one major public company throwing out huge bits of gear. E.g compressors the size of a van, Welders the size of a car, huge industrial grinders, Facom and britool sockets and wrenches, air guns etc etc etc.

 

[mr migwire]

Nothing compared to one major public company throwing out huge bits of gear. E.g compressors the size of a van, Welders the size of a car, huge industrial grinders, Facom and britool sockets and wrenches, air guns etc etc etc.

i remember my cousin and my dad bringing gensets, hand tools, power tools, and a whole host of other stuff out of the dock yard when they were back shift. all of the kit they got was the proceeds of skip raking, a good freind works in faslane base and brings loads of cctv kit that gets skipped including brandnew cameras that they recon are no use due to newer kit getting fitted. and they wonder why the country is struggling.....

 

[DanielW]

When did schools start just scrapping things?
My primary school always had clear outs of old tables/desks/chairs/ shelving ect for cheap rather than chucking it away

Get to know your local scrap chaser,even if he's a pikey.

The one I knew before I moved into where I am now,he used to give me a knock every now and again with his van doors open and asking me anything of interest in here before I weigh it in.

What do want for those 12 boxes of occasion card printing plates made from Zinc,big ones as well as small ones,£15 I give him.
Sold the lot to a printing firm for £60.

The guy was out from 8 in the morning till 12 midnight,coming home a couple of times for something to eat in between scrapyard and mooching around in skips and industrial sites.

these SS tables that have been cropping up on here is nothing compared to what he had in his van now and again all from schools and derelict works canteens giving the security guard a dropsie here and there when came into contact with them.

I could write a book on his day to day scrapping.

 

[Bill Edwards]

Yeah, it's all very well dealing with these scrappy types and in theory it should work well.

However, I've yet to meet an honest one.
How often can you be sure that the stuff from xxx place is actually what you are told, and not somebodies business/livelihood that's suddenly been ripped apart.

 

[Kayos]

Today I got an old wheelchair lift from Optima21

Will be mounted to a trailer to aid collecting and moving engines on my own

 

[roofman]

Get to know your local scrap chaser,even if he's a pikey.

The one I knew before I moved into where I am now,he used to give me a knock every now and again with his van doors open and asking me anything of interest in here before I weigh it in.

What do want for those 12 boxes of occasion card printing plates made from Zinc,big ones as well as small ones,£15 I give him.
Sold the lot to a printing firm for £60.

The guy was out from 8 in the morning till 12 midnight,coming home a couple of times for something to eat in between scrapyard and mooching around in skips and industrial sites.

these SS tables that have been cropping up on here is nothing compared to what he had in his van now and again all from schools and derelict works canteens giving the security guard a dropsie here and there when came into contact with them.

I could write a book on his day to day scrapping.

Yep being born and bred from the North End of Birkenhead i know a few of these too I still have Mooching rights today with one of them who calls me with all sorts of good stuff (legit mind)

 

[sardine]

Sheet of 1mm stainless, 1160 x 3240 mm , that's got to be worth a bomb ?

 

[Maker]

When did schools start just scrapping things?
My primary school always had clear outs of old tables/desks/chairs/ shelving ect for cheap rather than chucking it away

I don't know what happened to the gear in my middle school when it closed but everyone was saying it would be auctioned, I think it was donated to other schools. I would have a look inside but I think there's a security guard squatting in there.

 

[sardine]

Well I've now got one of these, looks nice but useless.

 

[captain-destructo]

Well I've now got one of these, looks nice but useless.

depends weather you had baked beans for tea

 

[sardine]

No, sennapod vindaloo, prunes, and 5 pints of Guinness.

 

[Wedg1e]

No, sennapod vindaloo, prunes, and 5 pints of Guinness.

No curried egg? Tut

 

[eSCHEn]

No curried egg? Tut

Mmm egg curry is delicious. Sprout curry is super nice