So I thought it might be fun to share the story about how I got involved in the scrapping world. I started about two and a half years ago. That's when I started working for the cable company. At that time all I knew about scrapping was that copper and aluminum were worth money. In the mornings at the shop I notice people just throwing away tons of phone cords, ground wire, coax, remotes and tons of stuff like that. I didn't know exactly what to do with it but I started grabbing anything I could. I company gave me permission, they actually thought it was funny. I spent six months just bringing all this stuff home and dumping it I the garage. One day my girlfriend got fed up and told me that I had to do something with it or trash it. Mind you by this point my garage was filled end to end. I still had no clue what to do.. I took to facebook and found out my cousin was working for a scrap yard a few hours away. So he came down for a three day weekend. He took me through it all. How to tell whats what. We started by putting all the coax right in my truck.. 4 loads at about 400 pounds each. then we started separating the rest. power cords and supplies, comm wire, ground wire and non wire stuff (remotes, modems, computers.. Took me two weeks to strip down the ground wire and power cords. It was a tough lesson. Now I stay on top of it. Still have and amazing honey hole in my job.
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