earth magnets

[blackpoolsparks]

Have you seen the prices you can get for scrap at the moment?

My father in law had some scap cable (large awg) he stripped it and thought he'd get around £60 for it. He got........................... .............................. .............................. .............................. .............................. ......wait for it............................ .............................. .............................. .............................. .............................. .............................. .............................. .............................. .......£475

[Apache]

Pikeys nicked a load of cable (around an inch across, about 40m long) from our big genny at work. Tw@ts drained the diesel tank too, about 400 litres!

No-one saw anything, apparently...

[blackpoolsparks]

Pikeys nicked a load of cable (around an inch across, about 40m long) from our big genny at work. Tw@ts drained the diesel tank too, about 400 litres!

No-one saw anything, apparently...

where the heck to use drain 400 litres of diesel into?????

[John h]

They normally have IBCs on the back of transits (Industrial bulk carrier) polyprop tank in a cage, the plods don't stop em cos they say its water for their scabby ponies ????

[JUDWAK]

yes its soild
and i found it with the earth magnet too
i had to use a mallet to get the magnet off

there are bigger bits the size of arm chairs but i dint want to dig em out

shall i get one

[KERRSURF]

Yes George, get a massive lump and cash it in.

[JUDWAK]

i wont cash it in
maybe get a big lump and make something out of it for mi garden
cut and polished up into a fountain or something of the like
just need a big lump and a few blokes to lift it

if i go out today ill take some pics of em

more to the piont what the fluk is that suff it cant be pure iron in the middle of no where?
can it?

[Apache]

Didn't someone say you had a steelworks nearby?

Could be slag from the furnaces.

[JUDWAK]

yes plenty of steel works in my area loads in fact
i been in them has a kid but never seen the molton iron side of things

found something else a few feet down in mi garden
i'll put pics on when i got it out and washed
i bet its metal

[JUDWAK]

by the way iam a local history boff
its always been my main intrest
so when i go out i know where iam going
and what was there in the past (most the time)

anyhow i found this sliver thing in mi garden
its only slightly magnetic iam sure i found some of this stuff has a kid down the river don

my back garden was a tip for the an abattoir that belonged to eastwood house owned by sarah walker of the walker famliy (look up walker cannons or rotherham plough)
so my garden was a tip for about 200 years or so up till the 1930's its was full of bones of all kinds
but this is a first for me to find owt like this in my garden
its just right out of place
i find roman stuff tiles 1 coin and a dice all roman

but nothing like this
any ideas what it is?
















it weighs about 20kg or so

the pain i have just gone through to get this is all your lots falt

[stormforce]

forget the rocks and stop biting ya nails they look terrible..

[JUDWAK]

forget the rocks and stop biting ya nails they look terrible..

they all ways have
my finger ends are soild i can brake stuff with em
stops most dose a finger

[OllieNZ]

Iron Pyrite maybe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite

Ollie

[JUDWAK]

i some times bite the whole nail off keeps mi thumbs hard


thiese are long at the moment too much crap around em for me to bite em

[JUDWAK]

Iron Pyrite maybe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite

Ollie

thanks matey i would say its a close match mate nice one

it was used in wheellock in the old firearms
this will explain it being here
many thanks matey