Heath and safety bullshit

[Station]

Just phoned a couple of yards to enquire over collecting a scrap car.

After being told a price, I said he'll have to come tomorrow because I haven't got the keys to hand. The ape on the other end mumbled something and hung up.

Fuck, I'd hate to have to go back to a scrapyard, I hate these places, personality-vacuum socio-paths.

[Negative Creep]

Half the problem is that the companies are just trying to cover their backs from the "I cut my finger on this, it caused me great distress and I'm now too scared to leave the house. Give me some money" wankers

[catsinthewelder]

Just had a great day scrapyard trawling for some vintage seatbelts for the 1100, just wish I'd taken the camera.

 

Visited the local chap first, found him cutting wheelnuts off a lorry axle with the oxy-acetylene, no gloves or goggles like

 

The only thing still recognisable as a car was a half crushed xj40 20' up a pile of mixed metals, so he sent me down the road to the local Skoda main dealers. Parts chap listened to what I was after but didn't have any "rear engined skuds "left in the breakers area round back and the newer stuff wouldn't fit so I moved on to an actual breakers.

 

Parked up, put my head round the corner of the office and explained what I was after, was pointed at the top shed to look at a Herald and anything round "this end" if I wanted to look by myself. Only rule was no climbing, but everything round here was at ground level anyway. The shed contained a lovely little Herald which I would dearly have liked to take home along with a very stripped MGF. Filling the entrance were a Mk2 Transit camper and a CF chassis cab, another CF, this one a van that had been converted to a camper was outside next to a Talbot Express shaped unbadged panel van.

 

Just inside the main yard were a couple of minis and a 105 Anglia but they were overflow from the clutter round the entrance. A late Manta looked fairly complete, probably an abandoned project in grey primer. Another abandoned project was an MGB GT, sat next to a very rotten TR7. A fair looking Renault 4 was next to my eventual target, a turd brown Rover 2000. Some terminal rot had brought it in but it was a pleasant place to spend the next half hour relieving it of its seatbelts. once finished I had a nose at the most rotten Morris 1000 of ever and the inside of the Transit while waiting for the gaffer to return. One of the Polish guys rang him in the end to confirm how much I was paying. All the guys there were very friendly and happy to indulge someone who was probably quite obviously enjoying lurking round

 

Amusingly out of date website here http://www.p-tmoore.co.uk/

[scooters]

U- Pull have gone down in my estimation - can you really buy whole non write off cars from them for using?

 

A few years back they semed to have loads of stuff at reasonable prices but they seem to have tap all stock in at the moment. I am looking for some bits for the Renner and you would think that 2002 SeeNICS are common enough - not a sausage....if fact their pullable stoick seems pretty lame at the moment.

 

I suspect the reason for this is the price of scrap metal which makes it cheaper forthem to cube the cars rather than offer them for stripping. Thus cranking up the price makes sense to them. A bt short sighted - the cost of scrap steel is only high becuase there is a lag as the steel insdustry recovers output form the recession - when it does then the proce of scrap will, again, fall and UPull will be left with no customers.

 

I have some sympathy with the scrap yard owners and the H&S legistation. Having said that, irresponisble ones have made it inevitable - there are many horror stories about nasty accidents.

 

I also find geography plays a part...

 

Cats - it is no wonder you found such a traditional scrappie in rural Salope. Having travelled extensively in my quest for tin and bits it seems that the easy going old fashioned yards are usually away from the big cities and in rural areas. For instance te area around Peterboro is a mecca for classic cars and old tin...a recent example was when I left the oil filler cap off my 1978 Daimler Sov when topping up at 7.00am on the A1 - I realised this quickly and called the AA out to help as I was suited and booted and had a meeting so oily hands and clothes was an issue. When the AA man turned up I told him what had happened and asked him to take me to a scrap yard I knew about 5 miles away - he thought Halfraudes would be a better idea and after wasting an hour speaking to them and to various factors in the area we ended up going to the yard I suggested- as it happened they had several XJs in and we got a good cap off a series 1 XJ6 which had seem many better days - £3 to the scrappy - oih he did have a large pack of dogs and was the usual grumpy fuck but he did keep an area where anything older and interesting was kept for parts cannibilisation - other than that his staffstripped the newer in demand stuff - like Volvo power steering pumps and Golf filler tubes, Mk 2 mondeo bumpers etc but most of the post 2000 stuff wne straight for cubing.