Awesome score today!

Heavy truck bumper and 4 aluminum rads from a mechanics shop, 2 lb brass spigot I randomly found, and a whole bunch of underground power cable plus clean tinned copper. I'm not sure exactly how to describe it but I think it's 750 mcm?(If you look at Rockaway Recyclings price list that's what it looks like) I stripped all the smaller pieces for about 15 lbs of bare bright and I have 2 other bundles of cable longer then my arm that I think I'll just bring in whole since I have to scrap this all by tomorrow and I don't really have a space to work on stuff and store it like I used to anymore. I already cleaned up the aluminum rads of all the plastic earlier. Id post pics but I have this problem where I can't erase my old uploaded photos on this site to make room for new ones :/

I turned everything in today, $163 all from the stuff I got yesterday. Bare bright was 2.15 a lb and the unstripped cable was 1.65 a lb. so I didn't really lose much by not stripping the rest especially considering the work involved in getting the insulation off.

1.65 for mcm?....Hope they supplied vaseline first cause u got F!@#ED!!!!

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

Sounds like a great opportunity for you to step up and provide a service for Forum Members by paying a higher price

Exactly. Prices are low for copper in my area and nobody's really paying different prices. There's only one yard in my immediate area the rest are farther away and they usually pay similar prices anyway. I also like my yard because I know them well and they trust me, they don't look at me as a possible bum or crackhead just because I'm young.