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Some burglar has stolen the gates from a nursery playground!
please can you keep an eye out for some massive iron gates with "scallywags" on please
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/metal-thieves-take-sheffield-nursery-gates-1-6039538
Rob - local scrap metal merchants would be my first port of call but I'm guessing that the cops will be onto that? Get round to them with some photo's of the gates. It's a massive problem at the moment with scrap prices going though the roof over the last few years.
We (big company) had £26k of metal stolen last month.
In good news though fuel theft seems to have stopped for a bit.
Police and staff are on to it - it's mainly if they have been dumped or are seen around
We have transit pickups patrolling around us almost daily.
I have a sneaky suspicion they do a drop (bed/matresses/washing machines) then look for scrap on the return trip.
Will keep an eye out in the usual spots where they dump by us as we are out riding tonight and they may be too 'hot' to weigh in.
Local travellers sites will also be a good starting point (without wishing to stereotype).
And don't be fooled in thinking that scrap dealers won't take them. If a van pulls in with a massive pile of scrap on the back, they don't sift through it they just weigh it and pay up. The inky good thing is that the government brought in new legislation last year so that they can no longer pay cash to scrap sellers - so they do need to supply some details.
Plenty of unscrupulous dealers though IMO.
We did a job by us a few months ago and the owner of one of these unauthorised scrap vans had up to £40k a MONTH going through his wife's bank account!
A school in Swansea had its brass instruments stolen and were crushed by a local scrappy, 3.5k worth of Tubas, Trombones, Trumpets etc sold for £120. Scvrappy replaced them after one of our girls made him a personal project 😆
Go look at small yards handling scrap, they will have to shear them up before shifting them.
Some travellers set up camp on waste ground just down the road from our factory and the next morning our big aluminium signboard had disappeared. The factory manager took a stroll down the road with two of the biggest factory lads and lo and behold! there was our sign sticking out from under a tarp on a pile of scrap. They took it back and nobody tried to stop them.