How much are travellers making from selling scrap steel?

ronan45

I work in a small retail unit and we have replaced some corrugated roof steel literally 4 sheets of Rusty Corrugated Steel
My god the stuff is like a rusty traveller magnet!!!. Literally EVERYDAY we have at least 2 vans outside beeping the horn looking to take it.
There eyes pop out of their head when they see the steel!!!! The boss has told me that no-one gets it and to tell the tresspassers to leave.
Just to see what they are selling it for i asked the traveller how much he would give me for the steel he said 50 Cent.
I told him i had another 5 pallets of it inside and he offered me "the price of 4 pints boss" lol. I am NO fool, So how much are these lads making off this scrap stuff per tonne or van full anyone know? You should have seen his face when he heard i had 5 pallets of steel. Like Osama Bin Laden when he saw the US Special Forces!!!
PS mods move to a different thread if you like not sure which area to post in this seemed best

Galway K9

Thats illegal now btu wont stop em. id love to know where they cash it in!

Tabnabs

You generally get about €180 per ton from scrap merchants at the minute. TBF, they are obviously getting more than that also.

adocholiday

I used to work in a supermarket and they moved to a new premises. When clearing out the old place me and a few of the other lads were dumping old shelving units, steel signage etc. Good bit of stuff. One day a traveller pulls up and asked could he have the stuff. I rang the boss he didn't care and helped d lad load up his van and a trailer later. Then he handed me a hundred quid!

Sprrratt

Yep same thing, I work in a transport company and we get them coming in at least 2-3 times a week looking for scraps. Pallets, steel anything. We have fridges in the corner of the yard waiting to ship to Africa and he even offered for them.

One time they drove straight into the warehouse and asked me without leaving the cab of their little flatbed truck

Kerrydude1981

Around my area a truck from Limerick comes down and collects scrap off lads and pays cash on the spot.

hardCopy

Collecting scrap was a task on the apprentice a couple of weeks ago.

It should be on the BBC website, they mentioned prices and everything in it.

Dardania

Sprrratt wrote: »

One time they drove straight into the warehouse and asked me without leaving the cab of their little flatbed truck

Driving inside is a great way to figure out what you have, and where it is...

jimthemental

Oh their great lads to come in and ask, when you tell them no though you'll wake up one morning and everything from scrap to shovels and chainsaws will be gone, even if it's locked up.

I've come home one evening to see travellers on our farm loading scrap without any permission and then threaten me when I confront them about it.

ronan45

jimthemental wrote: »

Oh their great lads to come in and ask, when you tell them no though you'll wake up one morning and everything from scrap to shovels and chainsaws will be gone, even if it's locked up.

I've come home one evening to see travellers on our farm loading scrap without any permission and then threaten me when I confront them about it.

Yeah they have a neck on them. Last crowd in i was very Polite , no mate sorry the boss needs it...
REPLY " no look its rusty he doesnt need that" as he walks towards his van with it....

It took a bit of talking for him to drop it ! He just slung it on the tarmac at the side of his truck in a big huff lol

jimthemental

ronan45 wrote: »

Yeah they have a neck on them. Last crowd in i was very Polite , no mate sorry the boss needs it...
REPLY " no look its rusty he doesnt need that" as he walks towards his van with it....

It took a bit of talking for him to drop it ! He just slung it on the tarmac at the side of his truck in a big huff lol

My oul fella did a bit of convincing with a .22 one time they gave us ****e at home, you should try that. It doesn't take the lads long to drive off then.

allthedoyles

Its about 180 p/tonne , but its not the scrap they will be looking for in your warehouse , but the copper cable , lead , alluminium etc .

example , copper is trading at about 4,900 euro p/tonne in scrapyards at the moment .

Rabidlamb

We've a large skip in work for scrap metal, itinerants empty it when full & gives us €800 for it.
Last summer it was piling up but no one called around, we brought it to the recyclers ourselves & got just under €3,000, a lot of aluminium.
Needless to say we look after it ourselves now, awful trouble with them driving through our yard looking for the good stuff, cops don't care.

ronan45

Cute Whores, and the way they pass off as they are just helping you cleaning your yard of junk... have the manners to offer a few Bob Mr Traveller !

7sr2z3fely84g5

Rabidlamb wrote: »

we brought it to the recyclers ourselves & got just under €3,000, a lot of aluminium.
Needless to say we look after it ourselves now, awful trouble with them driving through our yard looking for the good stuff, cops don't care.

Knew someone who made same amount,needless to say it answered the question on why was there so many people where getting interested in scrap business all sudden,most where charging €50 to take it away :rolleyes:.

Opelfruit

A guy on the radio lately said he arrived home to find his kitchen flooded. The metal on his roof had been stolen. Neighbours seen guys stripping it off his roof but seeing as they were all wearing hi-vis vests they assumed it was legit.:eek:

joe stodge

bare copper is going for 28 euro a stone in hammond lane down the docks at the moment. they are more brazen from where they get it from too 2 apartment blocks up near me had all the copper gas piping stolen from the underground car park for scrap.

laughter189

They are actually breaking into ESB sub-stations around the country and taking the copper.

Its only a matter of time before a tragedy occurs .

joe stodge

joe stodge wrote: »

bare copper is going for 28 euro a stone in hammond lane down the docks at the moment. they are more brazen from where they get it from too 2 apartment blocks up near me had all the copper gas piping stolen from the underground car park for scrap.

I work in telecoms and the number of telephone line faults caused by stolen cable has skyrocketed!

Engineers are having to replace whole sections of underground cable, one section has been taken at least three times so far this year!

7sr2z3fely84g5

laughter189 wrote: »

They are actually breaking into ESB sub-stations around the country and taking the copper.

Its only a matter of time before a big massive pay out occurs .

Fyp

ronan45

laughter189 wrote: »

They are actually breaking into ESB sub-stations around the country and taking the copper.

Its only a matter of time before a tragedy occurs .

Play with fire ya gonna get BURNEDDDDDDDDDD:D

joe stodge

ronan45 wrote: »

Play with fire ya gonna get BURNEDDDDDDDDDD:D

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000705/Dont-steal-electric-cables-Thiefs-advice-suffering-horrific-burns-22-000-volt-shock.html

clashburke

was told last week that there tacking the telephone wire off the poles!!!

dont even need to strip the plastic off to sell it anymore, scrap yards want it so badly

Mahatma coat

OP, they now know you have 5 pallets, they WILL rob you:mad:

We've been busy over the last few weeks replacing Copper cylinders around the area, it appears that they are using an AXE:eek: to cut them out.

Dont EVER EVER EVER let them into your premises, they get cheeekier and cheekier and then one mornin everything will be GONE

weiland79

They came around to my parents house a couple of months ago in the middle of the night and took a load of metal from the front of their house. Just loaded it up onto the back of a flat bed truck and off they went.

It wasn't just the metal they took, they also took the four wheels, the seats, the radio, the windscreen, the engine and the little lexus sign.

The Guards found it stripped in a halting site in Limerick.

Mr.Triffid

joe stodge wrote: »

bare copper is going for 28 euro a stone in hammond lane down the docks at the moment. they are more brazen from where they get it from too 2 apartment blocks up near me had all the copper gas piping stolen from the underground car park for scrap.

bloody hell, Unguarded ghost estates and apartment blocks must be like a gold mine to these guys.

wild_cat

My parents are farmers and they've had them around twice now.

The first time my Dad was out the back and told them we wouldn't be selling anything.

The second time they came to the front door mentioned what they'd seen out the back and offered a price. On asking how they knew what we had in a gated area they said they'd be around a few days before and no one was around so they came back again....

Its a very old farm set up.. big farmhouse next to stone out houses and the like with the larger sheds a bit further back. So technically they were snooping around the house. When no one is around all gates are padlocked now as my brother runs his business from one of the sheds to.

All I can say is the cheek!!!

We'd be used to travellers calling selling stuff and we've no problem with this. My Mam would have given them bread, milk and potatoes over the years and they'd give her holy relics and prayers in return. Its just the snooping thats the issue.

johnr1

ronan45 wrote: »

I work in a small retail unit and we have replaced some corrugated roof steel literally 4 sheets of Rusty Corrugated Steel
My god the stuff is like a rusty traveller magnet!!!. Literally EVERYDAY we have at least 2 vans outside beeping the horn looking to take it.
There eyes pop out of their head when they see the steel!!!! The boss has told me that no-one gets it and to tell the tresspassers to leave.
Just to see what they are selling it for i asked the traveller how much he would give me for the steel he said 50 Cent.
I told him i had another 5 pallets of it inside and he offered me "the price of 4 pints boss" lol. I am NO fool, So how much are these lads making off this scrap stuff per tonne or van full anyone know? You should have seen his face when he heard i had 5 pallets of steel. Like Osama Bin Laden when he saw the US Special Forces!!!
PS mods move to a different thread if you like not sure which area to post in this seemed best

Scrap steel is barely worth the trouble of moving it. You would get about 150 a tonne or 15 cent a kilo at the metal recyclers yard.
Scrap copper on the other hand is worth a lot more - 5000 a tonne or 5.00 a kilo.
Unstripped copper wire, aluminium, stainless steel or any other metal can be sold too, but you need a licence to collect this stuff from people or sites.

joe stodge

Mr.Triffid wrote: »

bloody hell, Unguarded ghost estates and apartment blocks must be like a gold mine to these guys.

its not a ghost estate, its fairly full with security. they figured out when he done the rounds of the other blocks and went to town on the blocks one each night.

wild_cat

johnr1 wrote: »

aluminium, stainless steel

They offered my Dad 5 quid a piece for large stainless steel food boilers. These things were huge and were bought to use for water for veg/fruit growing but it never materialised. I presume a fiver was a very low offer?

Opelfruit

wild_cat wrote: »

Its just the snooping thats the issue.

Where I'm from this snooping has led to a spate of burglaries, right down to hot-press cylinders being cut out.

mikemac

Pat Kenny show did a podcast on this last week, very interesting

Price of copper is sky high, as said the Apprentice did a show on this over on the BBC.

Our farm is plagued with lads calling up looking for scrap metal, there is lots of it.
But flat out at the minute so it'll be a few weeks before it can be taken away.

I doubt it'll last that long, sure to be stolen within the next two weeks

So this thread has motivated me to get it secured

laughter189 wrote: »

They are actually breaking into ESB sub-stations around the country and taking the copper.

Its only a matter of time before a tragedy occurs .

Pretty much a Darwin award if you electrocute yourself stealing from the ESB
I wouldn't call it a tragedy

prinz

laughter189 wrote: »

They are actually breaking into ESB sub-stations around the country and taking the copper.Its only a matter of time before a tragedy occurs .

Yes. A "tragedy".

Spread

Ask a Traveller a question ....... any question, and see the answer that you get. Even if you asked "is the sky up or down?", ......... they'll give you an ambiguous answer. They just cannot tell the truth. Afraid of getting caught out if they commit themselves. Always looking for an angle. As bad as the South Kerry politicians. It must be hell for the cops when they are questioning them.

CJhaughey

laughter189 wrote: »

They are actually breaking into ESB sub-stations around the country and taking the copper.

Its only a matter of time before a tragedy occurs .

Its already happened.
There is a factory in the town I work in.
It has 3 phase electric supply for big motors and pumps, they were burgled and found that someone had tried to hacksaw through the big electric cable that feeds the whole building.
There was a couple of scorch marks on the ground.
Electrician said that whoever did that is dead.
anyway about a week later there was a body of an traveller found outside the power station in Clare. Fried.
They must have moved the body and dumped it there.

mikemac

Such much for honour among thieves ^^^^^

Leaving your comrade out in wasteground with the rats

They could have made an anonymous call to the gardai from a phone box if they wanted so arrangements could be done to take the body to the morgue

Spread

mikemac wrote: »

Pat Kenny show did a podcast on this last week, very interesting.
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Pretty much a Darwin award if you electrocute yourself stealing from the ESB
I wouldn't call it a tragedy

Only for God! Lots of expensive fittings in Heaven. He'll have to double up on the security when that fellow slips in by the back door.:)

listermint

mikemac wrote: »

Such much for honour among thieves ^^^^^

Leaving your comrade out in wasteground with the rats

They could have made an anonymous call to the gardai from a phone box if they wanted so arrangements could be done to take the body to the morgue

Ah sure they'll get him back, just a bit crispier..

biko

OP somewhere among the posts is your answer I hope.