Irons loaded the rims into a van and took them home. He returned and took another load of rims.
The next day Irons enlisted help to load the rims on to a ute, drove to General Metal Recyclers, Lower Hutt, where they sold the rims as scrap for $423.
On April 30 Irons and his companion took the second load of rims to McCauley Metals, Seaview, where they received $287.
In explanation Irons told police he needed to pay rent and he didn't think the scrap would be missed.
Lawyer Frank Minehan asked Judge Susan Thomas to consider community work for Irons.
Judge Thomas told Irons it was time for him to accept his offending had now moved up a level.
"It's time for you to take stock, these are two serious charges. You need to understand that if you offend again then your liberty will be at stake," the judge said.
Judge Thomas convicted Irons and directed him to pay $710 reparation in $20 weekly instalments for the scrap metal.
Unemployed Featherston woman Natasha Melody Robinson was sentenced to three months' community detention with a daily curfew from 8pm to 7am, 80 hours community work and ordered to pay reparation of $250 when she appeared for sentence on three charges.
Robinson had earlier pleaded guilty to unlawfully being in a building and two charges of receiving stolen property, this being two motorcycles.
In sentencing Robinson, Judge Susan Thomas said that in February Robinson and a co-offender had gone to the Featherston Transfer Station, which had been locked, and had loaded scrap metal on to the back of a ute.
In April, Robinson had taken possession of a motorcycle which had been stolen in a Featherston burglary and the next month was found driving a vehicle with yet another stolen motorcycle on the tray.
"It is often said if there were no receivers, there would be no burglars," Judge Thomas said.
Robinson, the judge said, had appeared in court 28 times since 2003 for a variety of crimes.
"This is the first time for receiving, but it is an escalation.
"Previously your offending has been in relation to shoplifting," the judge said.
The reparation order was made for damage to the exhaust system of one of the stolen motorcycles, both of which have been recovered.
