Disposing of car batteries

[sierraman]

Quick one, do scrapyards still give a few beer coins for batteries? I've big fuck off dead one off an Insignia. Just thought as I'm popping in next week.

[chaseracer]

Yes, but not many right now.  I got a fiver each for the last two I weighed in.

[sierraman]

I'll chuck it next week when I go down. The bit I'm wanting from breakers is only a tenner or so anyway.

[Partridge]

Chuck it on the bonfire and get FREE fireworks. TOP TIP.

[derskine]

I took 3 and got about a tenner.

[cobblers]

We take em from work and get equivalent of 3 quid each for tiny little ones, but the yard has a minimum £30 or 40 transaction (cos it's all by card or cheque)

[richardmorris]

My 2cv garage has me keep an eye out for batteries for them- they get "more than beer money" for them they say.

[richardmorris]

Chuck it on the bonfire and get FREE fireworks. TOP TIP.

Because boiling sulphuric acid burns are always fun.

[Cavcraft]

I was offered £3 a shot for them a few weeks back from a scrap yard, so I'd imagine he's getting £5-£6 a go for them. Take them direct to a non-ferrous place, you should get more for them that way.

[sierraman]

Because boiling sulphuric acid burns are always fun.

I'll go halves on a new face.

[michael1703]

My nearest scrap yard is next to a railway line.

 

The sequence is, drive to scrapyard, get stuck at crossing gates, turn in to yard and you have to have your vehicle weighed, wait for weigh bridge to be free, get thumbs up, drive in trying to avoid multiple punctures,put on a "geezer accent" to blend in a bit guv'nor, avoid punctures on way out, queue to be weighed, receive paltry payment,queue at crossing gates to get back across.

 

This is best case scenario, worst case was when I was in a rush to get there before they shut so didn't get any fuel..... I ran out of fuel in their yard in a Range Rover with a 16ft trailer piled with shit.

 

So.... I no longer go to scrapyards, but the scrap man who calls round gives me £4 for them

[mercrocker]

I just give my old ones (and any other old spidge) to the motor factors I use, they always do me favours and its literally the quickest place to take them apart from dumping them over the neighbours fence (or leaving them down the side of the house to piss Mrs Rocker off)

[Taff]

My nearest scrap yard is next to a railway line.

 

The sequence is, drive to scrapyard, get stuck at crossing gates, turn in to yard and you have to have your vehicle weighed, wait for weigh bridge to be free, get thumbs up, drive in trying to avoid multiple punctures,put on a "geezer accent" to blend in a bit guv'nor, avoid punctures on way out, queue to be weighed, receive paltry payment,queue at crossing gates to get back across.

 

This is best case scenario, worst case was when I was in a rush to get there before they shut so didn't get any fuel..... I ran out of fuel in their yard in a Range Rover with a 16ft trailer piled with shit.

 

So.... I no longer go to scrapyards, but the scrap man who calls round gives me £4 for them

 

I find that throwing them into a canal is far easier, mate. Satisfying splash from the larger ones, too

[Pillock]

If you're a good shot you can easily knock out a fish with a car battery, and a fish is going to cost you more than three quid from the supermarket so you're onto a winner there.

[DodgyBastard]

I took 3 and got about a tenner.

 

Oi those were mine!

[HH-R]

Weigh the rest of the Insignia in to top up the price?

[Taff]

If you're a good shot you can easily knock out a fish with a car battery, and a fish is going to cost you more than three quid from the supermarket so you're onto a winner there.

 

see, you can't buy advice like that. Fishing with car batteries. That's proper recycling for you.

[Pillock]

see, you can't buy advice like that. Fishing with car batteries. That's proper recycling for you.

 

Oh, you can. That'll be £1.75 please.

[UltraWomble]

Im getting a bit worried about my state of mind as I keep reading this thread title as "Disposing of Dead Bodies".

 

As you were.

[Bear]

Chuck it on the bonfire and get FREE fireworks. TOP TIP.

 

Legend has it* that one particular street in Wickersley some inventive souls in the (guessing post WWII era but pre '70s) time before central heating and so forth figured out that car batteries burned well. Probably when the casings were some rubber derivative.

 

Anyway. End result of this habitual burning of batteries was a road of people who were a little different. And given that they came from stock that thought burning car batteries was a good idea, it's probably not that surprising.

[Bobthebeard]

Im getting a bit worried about my state of mind as I keep reading this thread title as "Disposing of Dead Bodies".

 

As you were.

"If you're a good shot you can easily knock out a fish with a car battery or a dead body, and a fish is going to cost you more than three quid from the supermarket so you're onto a winner there."

[Taff]

Can I go on record as stating that I have never thrown a dead body into a canal in order to kill a fish.

[UltraWomble]

I keep having a recurring dream about burying my wife under the living room floor - can we do this with car batteries too?

[sierraman]

Legend has it* that one particular street in Wickersley some inventive souls in the (guessing post WWII era but pre '70s) time before central heating and so forth figured out that car batteries burned well. Probably when the casings were some rubber derivative.

 

Anyway. End result of this habitual burning of batteries was a road of people who were a little different. And given that they came from stock that thought burning car batteries was a good idea, it's probably not that surprising.

Wickersley in Rotherham?

[Cavcraft]

I got £20 for six today off the local scrap bloke. he offered me £24 originally, then as the last one went in his car he said £20 because 'they're all a bit small'

 

I'm not arguing because I'm buying his car off him shortly, and you can bet your bottom dollar I'll be knocking some off the already agreed price.

[Bear]

Wickersley in Rotherham?

 

Yes. One of the mining-house estates near the woods, though not on the edge of the woods - closer to the dual carriageway.

[cobblers]

I grew up there and have never heard of this, and if there was a rumour that could have been used to take the piss out of some hairy lads on a certain street I would almost certainly have known and used it.

 

"YEAH BUT YOUR MUM BURNED CAR BATTERIES THAT'S WHY YOU SPIT WHEN YOU TALK AND SMELL OF SAUSAGE ROLLS" etc etc

[robinmasters]

I keep having a recurring dream about burying my wife under the living room floor - can we do this with car batteries too?

You'll never get the carpet to lay flat over the batteries.

[cobblers]

Discharge them first and they won't be an issue

[Bear]

I grew up there and have never heard of this, and if there was a rumour that could have been used to take the piss out of some hairy lads on a certain street I would almost certainly have known and used it.

 

"YEAH BUT YOUR MUM BURNED CAR BATTERIES THAT'S WHY YOU SPIT WHEN YOU TALK AND SMELL OF SAUSAGE ROLLS" etc etc

 

I think it dated back to when my parents were teenagers. So '60s. Looking at a map, would've been around Melciss Road/Dale Road from the description I remember.