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

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

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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 :)

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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?)