The time has sadly come when I must say farewell to a car which has slowly rusted away during the course of the last 11 years - due to inactivity and neglect. It has been SORN'd for the past five years.
I would really like to break the car for spares - it's worth far more in bits than as a 'going concern' - but that will probably leave it looking like a turkey four days after Christmas Day :-)
Is the price of scrap metal still high enough for a scrappie to collect a bare shell FOC? I could argue that I'm doing them a favor by removing most of the non-metallic parts for them!
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£60 a month or so ago for a whole car taken in. I don't know of any scrap merchants that collect, that's normally "sub-contracted"!
You could always cut it up and/or take it in on a trailer.
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I sold a truckload of miscellaneous junk a few months ago to a scrap man. It was a mixture of rusting gates, washing machine shells, a broken up kitchen range, an old back axle, etc. I got £20, and he had to drive out into the sticks to get it.
Or alternatively, once a rusty shell is totally stripped it's not very difficult to cut it into quarters and take it to a scrapyard in a trailer.
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take it in, you'll get atleast twice what you would if they collect.
if you do cut it up watch out for brake and fuel lines. risk of fire aswell of soil contamination.
if you have a friend with a large trailer 4 or 5 blokes could lift/drag it on.
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I like the idea of cutting it up :-) The car's on open private ground, so access is not a problem.
What would be the tool of choice for the job? Chainsaw? Disc cutter?
I guess the petrol tank should be removed first!
Edited by OldSock on 20/08/2009 at 11:23
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>>What would be the tool of choice for the job? Chainsaw? Disc cutter?<<
A good, hefty woodsmans axe! Mate chopped up an old Ford Anglia shell with one many years ago. It didn't take long.
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Modern high tensile steels mean I would use a cutting disk or oxy torch..
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This is the ideal time to justify the addition of a plasma cutter to the toolbox ;)
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What would be the tool of choice for the job? Chainsaw? Disc cutter?
9" angle grinder.
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9" angle grinder.
or a 12", 3 more inches of sparking fun!
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Apropos of nothing, I got £93 last week for two defunct hot water tanks out of the roof and some defunct cabling stripped out from under the floor boards. Copper is great...
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Be careful the wheel doesn't get pinched in the cut.
Edited by FotheringtonThomas on 20/08/2009 at 13:18
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I had a shell hiab'd away a month ago for free, cutting sounds like a good idea until you relise all the glass is bonded to the shell............................
Not worth the aggro IMO
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windscreen fitters dont see to have any agro ripping out a screen
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re the cutting disc
i advise dont do it for 3 reasons as already mentioned
1--they dig in and the tool spins round and will cut a part of your body off before you realise it
2--last time i used one to make a cabriolet (dont ask) a spark went onto the fuel tank overflow pipe and it fortunately sealed the end over with the heat or i should be dead
3--cutting a car up caused me to set myself on fire due to all the sparks
i recommend you take the bits off you want and let someone else take the shell away
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Phone a few local scrapyards out of the phonebook.
There should be plenty willing to pickup and pay around £50.
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I would try and get rid of it in one piece but there is a certain satisfaction in breaking the whole lot into small pieces!
As bb says, I would caution against an angle grinder. They are lethal in untrained hands and still pretty dangerous with experience.
I once stripped down a Mk II Escort into bits small enough to go in the boot of a Cortina. I was working in a lock-up with no power so just used a big hammer, tin snips, a hacksaw, a tyre lever and a cold chisel for the tougher bits. It was frighteningly easy.
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With a friend I once broke up a rotted Morris Minor convertible. We just folded it in half and then back a few times and it fell apart. We'd been driving it not long before, and noticed the doors wouldn't shut.
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£70.00 per ton delivered to their site
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www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metals/
Should give an idea of what they will get for it.
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Friend of mine just used to leave his old vehicles in a field. There wasn't much left of them after a year or two. Mind you, the Pennine weather probably had a lot to do with it.
I've always found wheelie bins handy for things you can't get rid of any other way.
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dumping waste in afield is a big no no these days even if you have owned the field since you won it in crusades
same for wheely bins,best to put it in next doors in case of repercussions ;-)
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None of the cars and tractors apparently abandoned in the fields near me have been "dumped". Whenever I have asked about buying one for spares the reply is always that so and so's son is saving it and is going to do it up. They go on waiting to be done up until the last tyre has perished away and trees grow up through the remains.
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Sounds frighteningly familiar, Cliff :-)
On reflection, cutting up a shell sounds like fun but could easily go pear-shaped. I'll just get a scrappie to collect - a sling through the door apertures should see it up, up and away onto the back of a transporter....
Any cash for the shell would be a bonus, but in reality I'd be happy to be shut of it for nowt!
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There is a field in a village near me that had at least a dozen of those old Bedford vans with the sliding doors all rotting away in various stages of decay. I never asked what the intention was of keeping them and last year they all suddenly disappeared.
A customer I sometimes visit has two Mk 1 Cavaliers in her front garden, a saloon and a coupe. Both have some of the garden growing through them and from the smell the local cats have adopted them as a home. I did ask the women about them once, and she rolled her eyes up and muttered something about her son...
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I did ask the women about them once.....
Proof - if such be needed - that women do not possess the "that'll come in useful sometime" gene :-)
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