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robert francis:
i collect scrap after work in my spare time, it pays for everything on my truck from spares to insurance and tax and some toys for it, im working so much harder this year, last summer i was getting £145 a tonne today i got £55  :'(

but you gotta atke the good with the bad

disco-nut:
it was £45 a tonne about 3 weeks ago, now its at £150 in norwich.

hairyasswelder:

--- Quote from: robert francis on June 05, 2009, 01:31:44 ---i collect scrap after work in my spare time, it pays for everything on my truck from spares to insurance and tax and some toys for it, im working so much harder this year, last summer i was getting £145 a tonne today i got £55  :'(

but you gotta atke the good with the bad

--- End quote ---

True..... but people are more willing to part with it when its worh less  ;) ;)

At work I used to leave my trailer and tip it when it was full.  When the prices rocketed the boss got a skip  :( :(
Now it is low again the skip costs him money  :lol: :lol: :lol:

Steve

Range Rover Blues:
It always goes up at the end of the summer, then the scapmen go on holiday and  they price falls for months.  Last year there were all the rumours about eh Chinese stockpiling steel before the olyimpics, then later in the year they were turning steel away at the docks because they couldn't use it any more.

A lot of their demends for steel is to make containers to ship consumer goods to the west, you can pick up a container now for little more than it's scrap value because we no longer make anything that can be exported by container.

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