DIYbanter - View Single Post - How to dispose of a portacabin and a caravan

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We have just acquired a bit of land adjacent to our house, we've used
it for grazing our horses for years anyway but buying it just
completes our plot nicely.

Now we own it we'd like to get rid of the ancient and decrepit
portacabin and caravan that are on it. The portacabin is actually
falling apart, when we looked just recently the roof was falling in,
thus it is worthless I think unless the angle iron is any use to
anyone. The caravan is not quite so far gone, it's a biggish one
intended for 'fixed' use I guess. The roof is still waterproof, it
has a plumbed in loo though it's not actually plumbed in if you see
what I mean.

How can we get rid of these? Does anyone have any idea how much a
waste disposal company is likely to charge? If anyone is interested
in the caravan I'm quite happy to assist them in getting it moving
(I'm not even sure of the status of its wheels, if any, at the
moment).

Any/all ideas would be very welcome.

set fire to them, shovel what remains into a skip.

That might work with the portacabin whose walls and roof appear to be
some sort of cheap plywood but the caravan is mostly aluminium,

ah, I thought it might be.

chop the ali one up with and axe / grinder. weigh the ali in at a large metal recycling
yard. the price of aluminium has gone stratospheric recently. burn the ply one and
whatever is left of the ali one, then shovel the remains into a skip. it's probably worth
weighing the steel in, too.

RT