Wire, Wire and more wire

Originally Posted by mike1

wow thats alot of wire wish i could find that stuff in such a mass amount to. not sure if id pay for it. i thought if you pay for you metal you lose money just my thoughts. that would take a long time to strip all that lol.


i supose if you had nothing better to do you could strip it all and at least with wire you can strip it inside unlike a/c's where they are messy.

The chances of getting something like this without paying are zero. As far as making money on it, you need to be able to secure better pricing. When you start moving some volume, you can talk to yard managers and regional scrap buyers and secure dealer pricing.
I won't be stripping much of it. It's better to turn it and move on, unless you have a stripper and alot of time.

Originally Posted by mthomasdev

The chances of getting something like this without paying are zero. As far as making money on it, you need to be able to secure better pricing. When you start moving some volume, you can talk to yard managers and regional scrap buyers and secure dealer pricing.
I won't be stripping much of it. It's better to turn it and move on, unless you have a stripper and alot of time.

When I purchased that Quonset that burnt to the ground and offered yard clean up, my pile of copper in that deal was all heavy number 1 with three very large transformers. I sold the wire with the insulation as is and striped out the transformers.

The insulation comprises of 30% of your gross weight.

Back in the day when you could burn wire me and a buddy did my gravel truck full plus a loaded 3 ton flat deck, at the end of the burn whetted the huge pile down with a fire hose to stop the wire from further oxidation.

All the wire from two loaded trucks fit into the gravel truck, fortunately I had a winch on the truck with a hook so that we could load the wire.

Personally I would not waste my time stripping that wire, just sell it as is, volume is going to net you a good price plus not not stuck getting rid of the waste plastic.