For the love of scrap

Been having a giggle at myself thinking back on the things I've done for a little scrap.

I burn a lot of wooden pallets so every morning clean the fire out with a magnet ( that I stripped out of a microwave ) then fill up an old 20lt oil can takes me a good month to fill it up.

I've also stripped down an old wardrobe and got a grand total of 1kg worth of metal from it ( made myself 12p for an hrs work ) when the price was £120 a ton.

I now keep all my metal food tins and drinks cans as well worked out it takes 34 food cans to make 1kg and at today's prices makes a grand total of 5p per kg ( £50 a ton ).



Just wondered what you guys and girls do that others may think your mad for doing.

all metal is money... just not that much lately! I have been known to remove the metal cutting thing from a box of floss, or the cutting edge from a box of plastic wrap. It all adds up!!!!

Very true I've even stripped a few double mattresses most can have upwards of 10kg of metal in them

I sweep my bonfire pit with a magnet as well, burning old fence panels yields a lot of nails and other hardware. On a side note, how much of this do you think gets lost in the soil when we just chuck buckets of this into the yards shred pile? I always wondered if some places have a separate baler just for small parts, so as to not lose material.