Awesome morning! - Page 2

Thanks for the input everybody. Dropped my phone in snow the night I posted this so been m.i.a. but got it dried out so I'm back lol.
I chopped everything off a big pile of it and they gave me ins. #1 at 1.40 a # so wasn't too bad. That pile was 36#'s. Still got about half that I set aside for a snowy day too so in total it was about 50#'s I got that day. Made about $30 off brass, copper and alum. from there that day and $70 worth of items I'm reselling so it was a pretty good score. I'll never look at Christmas lights the same after chopping all those darn bulbs off though lol

Originally Posted by armstrt8

As others have mentioned, check with your yard on whether to remove the bulbs or not. Last year it was something like .32/pnd and .75 stripped. If you factor in the weight of the bulbs it comes down to a tiny profit for stripped the bulbs one by one. If you have a way to strip them in one swoop then I would do it, or if your the type of scrapper who scraps while watching TV then do it, but other than that it isn't worth the time/money ratio taking bulbs off.

Just my .02!

EDIT!!!! BTW nice score!! If I ever found a house like this it may not hurt to give the doorbell a ring and just let them know you exist. Im sure next time they wouldn't mind callin ya instead of trashin it all!

Thanks. I thought about doing that. Definitely gonna drive by this weekend too lol

Originally Posted by ScrappyRob

I will keep going until I have finished my route. Regardless of how soon I find a good cache. I pull a 6 by 12 trailer with a pick up truck. I was just noting how I have noticed on a slow day, I have often found a good score on the last street of my route.

I was on my way to shovel my moms driveway when I found it so that was awesome lol