Why do Pikeys steal copper pipes?

[Gromit]

Every time I have a skip in the drive, five in the morning till about seven vans with our travelling friends do the rounds and have a rummage through. Anything metal especially copper is taken. They've even taken the grate in the drain. Anyone know what do they do with the metal?

 

[Centralheatking]

WE visit local scrap merchant 5/6 times a year and usually come away with £150-200 each time for
a trailer load. I must confess in the run up to xmas the price slips a bit I think.

centralheatking

 

[ferret]

"I f#####g hate pikeys" turkish

 

[johnmcginty]

Get a brand new piece of shiny copper for bait, put in skip, take a dump in a bucket and throw it on top of the copper . Simples

 

[Dannypipe]

I love taking a load of copper to the scrappies. Feels like money for nothing. The middle of a one pence is a steel disk as the value of the copper out wieghs the monetary value!

I hate pikeys too. I've had my tools nicked a few times and I know it's pikeys.

One time they did me a favour. We struggled down the stairs with a big cast iron boiler. Stuck it in the front garden and went inside for a cuppa. Came out to load it onto the truck (to take to the tip) and it had gone. They were welcome to it! Bloody thing weighed a ton and can't have been worth much. scrap cast is worth a pittance.

 

[Dotty]

I used to live down near you Dan (New Addington) and work down in Maidstone. I remember quite a few of the locals down that way would stab you for the change in your pocket.

And as for the 2p being worth more in scrap, that's true but only up to a certain date, 2003 I think it is.

 

[midge]

2p coins are worth 3p

That's why 1 and 2p's are now plated steel, not pure metal.
Check them with a magnet, old ones won't stick, although I can't remember when they changed.

 

[tamz]

Copper £4.20 a kilo today

 

[Gray0689]

Copper £4.20 a kilo today

£4200 a ton it's gone crazy need to watch any new instalations

 

[Dannypipe]

4k a ton. Blimey!

I'm ripping out a cylinder next week. So I'll be loading that up and trotting down to A & A metals!! Sweet.

Oh and yeah Croppie, I think we discovered before that you used to live fairly close to me. Most of my work is in Tunbridge wells, and Seven oaks...much nicer part of the south east!

 

[tamz]

Braze £3.65/kg
Mixed brass £2.40/kg

Happy days

 

[fuzzy]

im ripping my own cylinder out! go without hot water at those prices, lol

 

[plumbandplumber]

After having my pipe tube broken into three times, I have removed it from the roof rack. Now, I only buy 2 metre lengths so they fit inside my Scudo.

 

[tamz]

You need to buy a bigger van.
Btw3m lengths will fit in a scudo.

 

[fuzzy]

After having my pipe tube broken into three times, I have removed it from the roof rack. Now, I only buy 2 metre lengths so they fit inside my Scudo.

they should do 22mm on a coil , lol

 

[Blackcatgas]

Years ago we filled my employers transit with bags of copper brass taps etc etc, we got £120 for the lot, then reversing back over a bit of jagged metal in the scrap yard we did a tyre which cost £80 we swore wed never have a weigh in again, how times have changed.