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The scrap metal man......

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Has anyone noticed the demise of"the scrap metal man" where i live we used to get a guy once a day now its about every 2 weeks, yes i know metal has dropped in price but are we going to see......the end of the scrap metal man just like the milk man or chimney sweep or mobile shop.

What else do we not see anymore ???.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rag and Bone man is always about

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are 2 that come past my house most days of the week. I also have a milkman

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bloody hell leave anything metal like radiators and such, it will be gone before the end of the day

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By *ackStrakerMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Been replaced by the in use scrap metal thief. No reason to go out and collect it when toe rags will steal it and deliver it to you if you ask few questions.

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By *lem-H-FandangoMan
over a year ago

salisbury

No money in it is there. I used to leave bits of car that i no longer wanted at the end of my drive way such as old brake campers and such, and they would vanish. I had to give up and take the last lot to the local dump after 6 months of them being sat there.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Most scrap guys in Leicester have started to do waste as its cash but with metal every thing is traceable as scrap yards can only pay by cheque or straight in to a bank account.

In Leicester you hardly see any scrap men most are from birmingham where it seems you get a better price ???.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ours still come round weekly.

And the ice cream van always turns up when it's freezing so I bet today he won't appear. I fancy a 99 too.

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull


"Rag and Bone man is always about "

He's only human after all

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London


"Has anyone noticed the demise of"the scrap metal man" where i live we used to get a guy once a day now its about every 2 weeks, yes i know metal has dropped in price but are we going to see......the end of the scrap metal man just like the milk man or chimney sweep or mobile shop.

What else do we not see anymore ???."

Had a new cooker installed in February. The fitters put the old cooker outside to put in their van to dispose of. By the time they'd installed the new one the old one had gone!

I'd have saved £40 if I'd known!

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor


"No money in it is there. I used to leave bits of car that i no longer wanted at the end of my drive way such as old brake campers and such, and they would vanish. I had to give up and take the last lot to the local dump after 6 months of them being sat there. "

Scruffy bugger . Actually I've not heard our guy come round for a while.

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

In our part of town, there's still a weekly collection by two guys with their horse and cart, taking away metal, old appliances and other items at their discretion.

There's still a daily Ice Cream van, and across town, milkmen are out 6 days a week on a lot of rounds.

Plus the council refuse collections, are weekly for some items, fortnightly for others.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They must not exist where I live, I've never in my entire 36 years of life had someone come looking for scrap metal!

Ruby

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Has anyone noticed the demise of"the scrap metal man" where i live we used to get a guy once a day now its about every 2 weeks, yes i know metal has dropped in price but are we going to see......the end of the scrap metal man just like the milk man or chimney sweep or mobile shop.

What else do we not see anymore ???.

Had a new cooker installed in February. The fitters put the old cooker outside to put in their van to dispose of. By the time they'd installed the new one the old one had gone!

I'd have saved £40 if I'd known! "

When I got a skip last year I shouldn't have bothered as virtually everything in it got taken by other people. I'm amazed what they find of interest.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ice cream van, fresh fish van, milkman are around here. Sadly no scrap metal man as Ive got a couple of monster radiators to get rid of and cant fit them in the car!

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge


"Rag and Bone man is always about "
went to one of his gigs fucker wouldnt take the srap washing machine and didnt gimme a baloon

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By *arkstaffsMan
over a year ago

Rugeley

Still get the tat collectors round here. Not as many as there used to be though.

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor


"Rag and Bone man is always about went to one of his gigs fucker wouldnt take the srap washing machine and didnt gimme a baloon "

I was recently telling my daughter who the rag and bone man was and getting a balloon. Aw those were the day's when we were happy with just a balloon,or was that just me?!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Rag and Bone man is always about went to one of his gigs fucker wouldnt take the srap washing machine and didnt gimme a baloon

I was recently telling my daughter who the rag and bone man was and getting a balloon. Aw those were the day's when we were happy with just a balloon,or was that just me?! "

sometimes you got a gold fish.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Still hear at 7am on a Sunday morning

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Used to hear him near me but not seen him for a few weeks

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Used to hear him near me but not seen him for a few weeks "

Base scrap metal is about £65.00 a tonne take out the diesel running costs expenses etc i would say they must be on less than the national minimum wage now a days hence why you never see them.

20 washing machines is a tonne so that takes a lot of collecting to make £65.00.

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby


"In our part of town, there's still a weekly collection by two guys with their horse and cart, taking away metal, old appliances and other items at their discretion.

There's still a daily Ice Cream van, and across town, milkmen are out 6 days a week on a lot of rounds.The last horse & cart around here I remember in the sixties and seventies thou I,m sure the white van man has not been collecting since the late seventies here thou I may be wrong it seems a distant memory the horse and cart..

Plus the council refuse collections, are weekly for some items, fortnightly for others."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This reminds me of step toe and son fs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Has anyone noticed the demise of"the scrap metal man" where i live we used to get a guy once a day now its about every 2 weeks, yes i know metal has dropped in price but are we going to see......the end of the scrap metal man just like the milk man or chimney sweep or mobile shop.

What else do we not see anymore ???."

In birmingham there is scrap metal men everywhere... well mainly romanian women and children pushing baths or trolleys on foot but they are still after metal lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

when I was a lass there were regular (weekly) collections from the rag and bone man with his horse and cart.

I remember if we gave him a bag of rags (old clothes) we would get a goldfish in return

there was also the pop man, the knife sharpener and the liptons tea van..

all long gone now ..

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor


"Rag and Bone man is always about went to one of his gigs fucker wouldnt take the srap washing machine and didnt gimme a baloon

I was recently telling my daughter who the rag and bone man was and getting a balloon. Aw those were the day's when we were happy with just a balloon,or was that just me?!

sometimes you got a gold fish....."

Goldfish? We weren't that posh where I grew up

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By *ngel n tedCouple
over a year ago

maidstone


"This reminds me of step toe and son fs "

Oh you dirty old man

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