Old anchor chain, scrappie or tip?

[wombat88]

I have a heavy wheelbarrows worth of very nasty old rusty anchor chain I want to get rid of.

Does it have a scrap value?

Is it worth taking it to the scrappie or shall I just take it down the tip?

 

[RichardS]

I was going to take the old batteries from my boat to the tip which is what I've done with all the old car batteries but someone suggested I take them to the nearest scrap yard.

That was £60 from nowhere.

Richard

 

[Deleted member 36384]

It’s worth taking for the recycling capability as opposed to dumping.

 

[Neeves]

As BOB says - better converted into the next nuclear submarine than filling landfill.

Unlike lead It may have no value from the scrap merchant - but better than in landfill.

Jonathan

 

[JumbleDuck]

As BOB says - better converted into the next nuclear submarine than filling landfill.

Unlike lead It may have no value from the scrap merchant - but better than in landfill.

I'd be very surprised if it went to landfill. My local "tip"is a recycling centre with a separate skip for metal.

 

[jdc]

I always take old chain to the scrappie, but I don't expect to be paid for it.

 

[Roberto]

Here it is often used to increase average density in making concrete blocks for permanent moorings, they mix it all before concrete sets. I had to get rid of a few tens of meters of rusted chain, the marina said "just leave it on that corner", a couple of days later it had disappeared.

 

[Neeves]

When we disposed of our old chain - it went to a scrap merchant - he suggested I should pay him to take it off our hands.

I smiled at the idea.

Jonathan

 

[dansaskip]

Scrappie - they should pay you as scrap iron & steel has a value and any decent scrappie should have the prices listed on a board. It is a more regulated industry these days.

 

[Neeves]

Scrappie - they should pay you as scrap iron & steel has a value and any decent scrappie should have the prices listed on a board. It is a more regulated industry these days.

Scrap steel is worth about 5p/kg. For a scrap merchant your chain is a nuisance, it costs him more to record the transaction than the chain is worth.

Give it to him - and have a warm, cuddly feeling that it will reduce imports and be remelted and converted, in a UK Electric Arc Furnace, employing UK residents, into something useful.

Jonathan