cheaky pikeys!

[baz-r]

just had some cheaky pikeys banging at my door driving a transit pickup full of scrap
offerd to drive my sierra away free of charge! cheaky bar stewards
to save me the cost of geting rid of it!
i said no then he said what your going to put it back on the road i said no and its not for sale thankyou good buy
all with out the use of any bad words :D

odd as local metal yard offer me £65 with colection for the shell on its own
said he knows guys that would want it for some stock car series or he could just crush it

[AshG]

take the battery and the fuses out they will be back to pinch it tonight.

[baz-r]

thats why i made a note of the reg on the transit :D

[monsterob]

that wont help you its probably on false plates or they will come in another pikey wagon ! they may even use a horse as its quieter !!!

[baz-r]

im just poping out to put a steering lock on remove the battery, take all the fuses out remove the ht leads and put it up on bricks :o

[flyerncle]

Press the brake and clamp a hose it wont go anywhere ;)

[baz-r]

no need the drums are locked on as thay are
no chance of pushing it anywhere :)

[baz-r]

well it was still there when i last looked

[flyerncle]

Not proper pikey's then !.;)

[big_wasa]

You never heard of a hi-ab :(

Once they have seen it ........................

[flyerncle]

Bit noisy and obvious Wasa........:rolleyes:

[Doogle]

A cheaky pikey walked up my drive yesterday, asked who was getting rid of the remains of my sierra, told him local scrappy was and he said oh, i told him if he gave me something for it he could have it though.
Out came a roll of 20's an inch thick and agreed a tenner, cheap as but the local scrappy pride themselves on removing cars for free so seeing as I dont have a trailer to take it there myself it was a tenner I wasnt going to get otherwise.
They came back a couple of hours later with a truck, I asked what he was going to do with it and he sheepishly said 'yea just weigh it in' so I said alright bung this lot in then, make it heavier (bonnet exhaus, trim, other crap I didnt want) He was happy as larry and I got a clear drive again.
IOW is like the deep south, cant sneeze without everyone knowing etc so know nothing will happen, wasnt really a true traveler type though as non over here, they get run off into the solent by farmers lol

[Bonzo]

I bet it feels good to have your drive back again :)

Got £70 for the last shell I weighed in .... That'll be why he had a big fat roll of 20's :D

That said, I recently let someone on the knock remove some scrap batteries & light iron for a small fee.
A lot less hastle than loading it all on to the trailer & trowing it off again at the scrapyard :)

[Doogle]

Yea, it was £120 a couple of weeks ago apparently and currently local scrappy are paying £80 a ton so yea he would be happy. He said he takes batteries if I ever get any, and alloys as he gets something for those too.

Like you say, saves the hasstle. The local scrappy did come today to take away a scrap golf I had as well, easy but theres nothing in you back pocket for it which is a bit annoying considering you know what they are making on it.

[SeriesLandy]

Was £150 a ton on monday for mixed iron in Petersfield.

Also batteries are about £250 a ton.... and they fit in the boot.

[carlknight1982]

small point,

"you need to be a registered waste carrier to carry more than 5 batterys in a vehicle that are not part of said vehicles operational systems"

one of my engineers got a £230 fine just 3 weeks ago.

[rapidtornado]

Called local waste/recycling company to me he came to the house with a Hihab lorry lifted the car took it away and then gave me £50 for the metal... happy days!

[Doogle]

Your lucky getting paid for it! Over here they always give you less. The attitude is if you dont like it take it to the mainland yourself. I will one day when I get a trailer again (on the look out by the way if anyone has an Ifor or brian james for sale?)