Worn road milling picks, tunnel boring cutters, foundation drilling teeth and workshop tooling come off WA civil and tunnelling sites carrying a small carbide tip on a steel body. We sort each load by material at the Malaga yard, then price it on tungsten content, condition and the current reference price.
Tunnelling and foundation bits · WA A worn road milling pick and a length of mild steel plate can look the same on a scale, both dense grey metal past its working life. The pick carries a tungsten carbide tip that did the actual cutting, and that tip is worth more than the steel body carrying it. Priced as one mixed load, the carbide gets valued at the same rate as the steel around it.
Civil and tunnelling projects generate carbide-tipped tooling across the whole job, from road milling through to the tunnel face and the drill rig. We sort every load by material at the Malaga yard before it’s priced, tungsten carbide tips separated from steel bodies and workshop carbide kept apart from high-speed steel. Price is set against tungsten and cobalt content, condition, how much steel is still attached, and the current market price for tungsten, not a flat rate for the whole bin.
For the mechanics of carbide pricing specifically, see drill bit pricing and the tungsten carbide material page. If you need a bin on site before the next stage of a project, how collection works covers what to expect, including where a bin fits into a road, tunnelling or foundation job.
Whether a bin makes sense on a road, tunnel or foundation job is decided case by case, weighed against the relationship, the site and how much tooling is accumulating. A one-off drill bit bin normally needs more than 2,000 kilograms behind it; smaller loads can still be brought to Malaga by appointment or quoted individually. If you’d rather see the yard first, walk-throughs are free, but call ahead and book, since the team isn’t always on site.
Every quote we issue carries its own expiry, either 24 or 72 hours depending on the material and current market movement. Tungsten pricing shifts with the market, so a quote on carbide-heavy tooling won’t sit open indefinitely. Get in touch while a load is still on site and we’ll work out timing from there, instead of quoting a number that’s gone stale by the time the truck arrives.
Tunnelling and foundation bits · WA Worn tooling from road, tunnel, foundation and workshop work all comes through the same yard at Malaga.
Whether it’s a single ute load of road picks or a project-end clear-out, the same four steps apply.
The same four things happen to every load, whether it’s one ute or a project’s worth of tooling.
Every load is weighed at the Malaga yard before it’s priced, so the number you’re paid on matches the docket.
Carbide tips, steel bodies and workshop tooling are separated by material before anything is valued.
A batch record travels with every load, listing weight, grade and destination for your own site records.
No cost for the bin, no cost for the freight, since it travels on an existing backload rather than freight we charge for. Our skip bins and IBC pods move on your existing backload; we don’t run a skip truck to pick them up.
Furberg, Arvidsson and Molander, writing in the Journal of Cleaner Production (volume 209, 2019), found that recycling metal cuts environmental impact by 22 to 100 percent depending on the category. Recovering the carbide tip from a worn pick keeps that tungsten in circulation.
Weight, material grade and destination are logged for every load leaving a road, tunnel or foundation site, useful documentation to sit behind a project’s own environmental or client reporting without building the audit trail from scratch. That matters most at project close-out, when what leaves the site needs accounting for.
Wrapping up a road, tunnel or foundation job with worn tooling to move? Send photos of what’s on site and we’ll give you an indicative view of what it’s worth, including how the free bin works.
Malaga, WA · Free bin, free freight, on backload · Priced by grade and alloy content
