mysty
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Post by mysty on Mar 10, 2023 18:17:37 GMT 1
Find someone who will clear all your scrap metal. We bought a house today that came with old cars and a garden full of scrap.  |
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suein56
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Post by suein56 on Mar 10, 2023 18:25:50 GMT 1
OH and I had a short series of Renault 5s .. i.e 2 .. about 40 years ago and we found them brilliant.
Daughter also bought a secondhand one when she reached her 18th b'day with money left to her by her Grandma .. boy did she love that car.
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mysty
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Post by mysty on Mar 10, 2023 19:04:03 GMT 1
OH and I had a short series of Renault 5s .. i.e 2 .. about 40 years ago and we found them brilliant. Daughter also bought a secondhand one when she reached her 18th b'day with money left to her by her Grandma .. boy did she love that car. I think this R5 needed a bit of bodywork.  |
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suein56
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Post by suein56 on Mar 10, 2023 20:14:32 GMT 1
Just a tad, I agree 😊
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Post by pcpa on Mar 10, 2023 20:35:49 GMT 1
I know in the immediate area around me every man and his dog is a ferrailleur because the metal recycling plant where they weigh it in is in my village but every Facebook buying and selling group for the whole region is full of adverts for them looking for scrap so they must be everywhere.
For the few adverts for AE maçons etc there will be 10 for ferailleurs all showing a photo exactly like Mystys one!
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Post by pcpa on Mar 10, 2023 20:37:04 GMT 1
Did they pay you anything for the scrap?
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mysty
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Post by mysty on Mar 10, 2023 21:19:46 GMT 1
Did they pay you anything for the scrap? You have obviously never had travelling folk answering ads for scrap metal.  I placed an ad on a site and got a couple of people back very quickly, the ad said free scrap metal and cars. Mr man said he would come today which he did then said he thought the metal work would be be easy to get at most was covered in years worth of bramble in the garden and he did the usual and asked if I could give a little towards the fuel and his time. I said how about 50 he asked if I could go up a bit more so offered 100 if he cleared everything which he did we were both happy with that The garden looks better without all the rubbish and saves me time. |
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Post by pcpa on Mar 10, 2023 21:53:29 GMT 1
No but I have done 4 weigh ins in the last year and know just how much scarp is worth.
Later vehicles are worth a lot, earlier ones without catastrophic convertors less but if they have alloy wheels that adds a lot.
My last 2 weigh ins have not been worth the admin charge for a payout so the money has been left on account.
What is really cool about this yard is on Saturdays the groutiers don't work so they allow you to go through the piles and buy scrap metal albeit at 3 or 5 times the weigh in cost, I got a 4m length of very heavy rectangular section steel for my gate posts for €40, I think it was 67 kgs, I would have had to buy 6m at the stockholders and it would have been many times the price.
last Saturday I bought a load of angle and box to fabricate the missing corner posts from my recently acquired Ifor dropside trailer, cost €8.
The best way is to weigh in something on the saturday then find what metal you need, you go on the weighbridge on entry and exit, that way you effectively only pay the weigh in price and not the purchase price.
Most times I offlaod the scrap and end up bringing something back, a bit of an exchange really, I have had a couple of alloy stepladders and stepstools, there always seems to be one right beside where I am tipping to tempt me!
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Post by houpla on Mar 11, 2023 7:52:23 GMT 1
When you say that later vehicles are worth a lot, pcpa, what's a lot? We've got a Grand Espace III (2002) that OH bought for spares and now he's had them, I want rid. Have tried advertising it but apart from the seats, no takers. It would be good to get a bit for it rather than having to pay to have it removed.
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Post by Aardvark on Mar 11, 2023 11:31:37 GMT 1
I would love to know how people with scrap cars in their garden manage to do so without having to insure them. I have tried twice to keep a car that I couldn't afford to repair immediately until some time in the future but my insurer insisted I keep paying the insurance. I couldn't afford to keep wasting that amount of money and so had to scrap them. One was still drivable having only a cooling system leak so I took it to the scrapper and was given the princely sum of €80 and the other was a lwb Transit that had an injector pump fault so had to be collected. I got nothing for it, despite having lots of new parts on it, brakes, wheel bearings, body panels, etc.
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Post by houpla on Mar 11, 2023 12:04:35 GMT 1
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Post by pcpa on Mar 11, 2023 12:53:51 GMT 1
I would love to know how people with scrap cars in their garden manage to do so without having to insure them. I'm sure I have informed you of this before: www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1754with that even the most persistant of insurers will have to back down, otherwise just résilié the contrât, don't pay them when they ignore that and ignore all the threatening letters from the faux huissiers they sell the (not) debt to, after 18 months they will have given up. |
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Post by houpla on Mar 11, 2023 14:27:36 GMT 1
Sounds like it's a bit late now, but at least Aardvark will know for the future |
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