Scrap metal collection in Murray Bridge.

Distance is the only real obstacle to regional collection, and the way around it is a load worth the trip. Around Murray Bridge there usually is one, because the industrial base here produces stainless and plant rather than just light steel.

What the Murraylands generates

• Food and agricultural processing. Stainless tanks, pipework, conveyors, benches and plant. The stainless is the reason a trip out here pays.
• Transport and freight yards. Trailer parts, rims, axles, batteries, worn steel.
• Engineering and machinery repair. Offcuts, swarf, dead machines, tooling.
• Farms and irrigated property. Pipe, wire, troughs, tanks, implements.
• Electrical and mechanical contractors. Cable, motors, switchboards, pumps.

Rates

Indicative rates, the same ones on the home page. Metal markets move every week, so ring 0435 805 124 for the exact figure before you load up.

Stainless is the line to look at here. A processing plant replacing tanks or pipework has a genuinely valuable load, and it is worth separating from the general steel rather than filling one bin.

Making a regional trip work

• A minimum load applies, scaling with distance. We will tell you what it is for your location before you commit to anything.
• Combining loads helps. If a neighbouring business or property has metal too, a combined run clears the minimum easily. Worth a conversation between you.
• Plan it rather than calling it in. A booked day with a known load beats an ad hoc pickup out here, for both of us.
• Separate the valuable grades beforehand. On a long trip, arriving to a sorted load is the difference between one visit and two.

How it runs

1. Ring or message with the location, photos and what is in the load.
2. We tell you the minimum for your distance and whether what you have clears it.
3. Book a day, ideally combining loads if there are several nearby.
4. Weighed by grade on site.
5. Paid by EFT with the weights in writing.