sad moment aswell as a very angry one

[Landy Smurf]

one day when i was at the tip i saw a landrover up near a view containers so i went and had a quick look at and seemed pretty good firewall good,lots of tread on tyres instrament panel all there aswell as seats, the engine and engine bay looked really tidy. so i went and talked to the people at the tip about it and they gave me the scrap metal guys phone number, so i rang him an organised for me to go and look at it wednesday afternoon but when i got there all i could see was a scrapped canopy now this will annoy a few of you guys it was ex mil everything seemed good in it except rust in the doors and bonnet chassis was good and was fitted with land rover side steps and they fetch a bit of money for those. i would have been happy to pay more then scrap value for it. but for reason i just was gutted and extremely angry because what means something to me and lots of other people meant nothing to him:(

[Lotz-A-Landies]

It's his business, so it actually means a lot to him getting scrap. There is always an up side, it makes all the remaining ones more valuable to us.

What will make you angry is that some months ago as the Global Thievery Crisis reached it's max hysteria and manufacturing went into meltdown, China started to refuse to accept shipments of scrap metals so the ships were turned back. Instead of carting the containers back to Aussie the ship owners pushed them over the side of the ships. Or so I have heard. :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Sprint]

welcome to the wonderful world of dealing with the scum known as scrap metal merchants

about 18 months ago a friend bought some WWII era tank components at a clearing sale on a large property up here, dragged the first load home, made sure the rest of the stuff was labelled with his details and took the first load of lighter stuff home

returned the next weekend, scrappies had been through, funny how the 2 tank transmission assemblies (a good couple of tons of high quality steel in them each) had vanished during the week..... scrappies eventually owned up 6 months down the track, but long after the parts wouldve arrived in china.....