Good Morning Worlds!
We are going to the tip this morning. It will clear some of the stuff we sorted yesterday from the drive. I don't think we can clear it all unless we took the trailer, but the trailer is full of steel for weighing in.
Later I might carry on packing tote crates.
Tip trip done, and another car load cleared out.
I have taken the new trailer axle, and trailer drive motor system, out of the scrap metal trailer load. That means we can get more scrap metal in there and also not accidentally weigh in the parts I want to keep.
I think, next, I will start moving the scrap steel from the back garden into the trailer so that it is ready to go.
Scrap steel prices are not very high at the moment but better than nothing, if I take enough of it in one go.
Still have to sort the non-ferrous scrap.
That thing when you are taking the rotten tyres off small, wide lawn tractor wheels....
Huge effort to unmount one side of the tyre, but it was really badly rusted tight on the other side of the rim.
In the time it took me to break the bead free, I'd forgotten I had already done the other side, and ended up with the rim free but completely inside the tyre!
I had to remount the tyre that side, and then work around it to get the rim out.
I had to cut up the inner tube to get that out too!
I wonder how many more tyres I need to unmount? Four done so far.
@Maker_of_Things How does the tip work? Do you get paid for certain things and have to pay to dump other things?
(Are you preparing to move house?)
@amenonsen
We are preparing to move house, hence getting rid of anything we don't want to take, or is not worth transporting the distance.
The tip is the local recycling centre. It is accessible by car and the public can drive in and dump their waste. There are separate containers and skips for the waste, and we have to sort it into the correct ones as we unload. It is funded through local taxation and free for domestic and household stuff, though the organisation also makes money from some of the value of the recycleable and reusable waste.
Trade waste producers need to register and pay for waste disposal by weight.
There are some things that are more difficult to take, plaster and plasterboard, toxic and hazardous substances, etc. and that can be taken to different processing sites.
Despite it being free to use for domestic waste, we still have an illegal fly tipping problem.
@yvan
We are lucky that our local tip doesn't allow taking away.
I don't know if the scrap metal yard does. 🤔
The one I used to go to on the way to college did. I am sure I bought more from them than I ever weighed in.
@Maker_of_Things they don't let us take any old random stuff away... otherwise yesterday there was a strong chance I'd have gone home with a large curved glass shower screen that'd have made an awesome cold frame lid. (Though I didn't ask either.)
They have a shop on-site with selected goods available for purchase. Yesterday as well as the old Singer we got a couple of nice wide terracotta plant pots and a bowl. But at least we dropped off more stuff than we picked up 😅
@yvan
I think every tip or waste recycling site should have a shop for reusable stuff.
I think, locally, they do collect all the good stuff and take it to a warehouse where it is refurbished for reuse. But it is not really a 'general public' walk in thing, though they have an EBay page.
Alfred Chow - Maker of Things
Abhijit Menon-Sen
Yvan