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Weighing in scrap metal?!
robert francis:
very true matt, but for the honest 1s it mean when you do get somthing we dont get as much for it, so it be harder for me to get my bits for my truck
Range Rover Blues:
It always peaks in summer and nosedives over the summer holidays, scrappies seem to stop taking it when they are on holiday, it happens every year seemingly.
That and the world market for steel is on it's back at hte moment, apparently Chian have been turning it away from their ports because they can't sell the containers full of cheapo exports anymore.
Sharpshooter:
I work in a Defuling power station. Before christmas i was removing copper bussbars that went from the alternators to the transformers. I mean big alternators too. 120 meggerwatt. The bars were 15" wide and 12' long and 3/4" thick . All about the best copper you could find.
Shame its not mine though. There are about 150 of them. And thats just for starters. The alternators weigh about 80 tons, and there are four of them. :(
V8MoneyPit:
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on January 03, 2009, 00:56:55 ---That and the world market for steel is on it's back at hte moment, apparently Chian have been turning it away from their ports because they can't sell the containers full of cheapo exports anymore.
--- End quote ---
Absolutely true. Some of the paper and card recyclers are no longer taking in stock since China is no longer buying anywhere near as much. They have halved their output during the second half of last year and they no longer need to make as many boxes.
It's one of the factors in the price of fuel dropping. China isn't taking oil from outside it's borders as much.
Boggert:
You can tell it dropped in value so much as last year we would get at least 5 scrappy wagons collecting a day.
Now we are lucky or unlucky depending on which way you look at it to see 1 a month now
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