Scrap Yard H&S

That will be all Fords then

ooooh not all fords are scrap, low blow!





sierra sandwich!



I know that leaking fluids had a lot to do with the closing or being immediately stripped rather than left out for stripping?

Calls have been made, I'm just looking for your take on it all and any instances of you being subjected to the new aspects of H&S.

Chris

Datman do you mean Bridges by any chance? i stopped using it when it got silly expensive but was always a good yard for parts

My local yard is awesome then it would seem! Never experienced the faintest wiff of H+S at that place!

Only ever been to one other and that was pretty much the same apart from we had to sign in and weren't aloud to take a tool box with us.

Yes Bridges.
Few things I've bought recently,, battery £10. Nissan door £30 , nissan starter £37, Almera seat £20, Pug 405 tail lamp £5. 15 inch nearly new tyre £18. I think its not bad really.
Sorry, veering off topic slightly.

I'm not sure how it works. Some yards seem to be changing to what would seem to be more H&S/enviromentally conscious but some are still free to wander round and do what you want.

Matt

"Persley" in Aberdeen is an old-skool yard.
A gated enclosure with bumpy parking outside. Just in the gate is a dilapitated old Transit van, which serves as office/shelter for Stan, who sits in that van all day, every day.
The cars are not stacked, and you are free to do whatever the hell you want - Stan doesn't seem to give a toss. I have seen people smashing windscreens and ripping dashboards to bits to remove a clock....people will roll a car onto its side to remove an exhaust etc etc.
A few years back, there was a second part to the yard further back, but this was closed off and it was downsized to one yard for some reason.
H&S came along and told Stan off for the mess on the ground so they got some pikies in who swept up the worst of the broken glass and bits of bumpers, then laid the thinnest skim of tarmac you have ever seen. Then it was back to business as usual. Theoretically, the cars are depoluted (there is a big shelf thing here they stick cars using a forklift to empty the fluids) but in the yard 9 times out of ten they still have coolant, brake fluid, etc in them.
A simple price policy is in operation - small stuff is a "couple of quid" most normal stuff is a fiver, and large things cost a tenner. No receipts, no refunds, no exchanges unless he knows you well.
Opening hours are pretty much dusk till dawn in the summer, displayed on a bit of plywood tied to the fence, written in blue Dulux.
There is a big pit in the middle (the site is an old quarry) and they have a huge ramp where they sit the stripped shells and push them off the edge, where they fall maybe 60 feet or so into a big pile in the lower section, (no public access) where a grab flings them into a crusher.
Rats the size of alsations
I rmember when it was rammed full of minis, mgbs etc etc etc, then i moved on to mkIV esorts and cavaliers and now its mostly full of 98 onwards French and J stuff, with the odd gem still turning up amongst the bland.

At the other end of the scale on the other side of the city is Overton. You go into the reception and tell the chap/chapette what you want, then have a seat while a lad either fetches it from the shelving or goes into the yard if the part is still on the car. 10 minutes later you pay a huge amount of money and away you go, or you can have things fitted in their onsite garage.
Its rubbish though. You ask for a bit and you get the bit - no more, no less. Whereas if you go to Persley and find what you want, you take it off yourself, see how it goes together and can snag the bolts/clips/trim etc while you are there - Granted you are often kneeling in an oily puddle of mud or lying in a footwell with 4 inches of water in it as you work, but at least it's cheap!

A lot of yards nowadays have insurance that doesnt allow it for risk and our new claim culture makes this worse. Most that still let you trek round are either naive or simply cba with insurance or to deal with you/don't think itll happen to them as most people who travel scrappies such as the old skool yards aere unlikely to be claimers.

Theres also a lot of rulings, the racking system comes with your environment agency rules such as you can keep cars on concrete standing btu can no longer stack and if it isnt on wheels (ie mobile) it must be drained etc etc


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