Originally Posted by
Pnutfarmer
Be sure to check to see if there is a lighted marquee sign. The two I've done were dirty aluminum after I screwed out a couple hundred light bulbs. (Still don't have to buy light bulbs) Plus the heavy gauge copper wire that ran underground to them weighed 1200 lbs. It was a job pulling it from the conduit but well worth it.
Good score. Nice to get to scrap a bank and have a lot of the work done for you. I'd also check the phone lines. They have everything connected with multi line cable. I got a pick up truck load of just phone wire from one bank. If you break out the jacks, you can usually just snip the ends and pull the wire out of conduit.
The sign was wood. I picked up more stuff today, 3380 lbs of light iron, 291 lbs of 50% insulated wire, a lot of the weight was the phone wire, 372 lbs of BX cable. Wish I had stripped all the BX but I didnt have the time or energy, the Contracter showed me an easy way to strip it but having a cold and trying to get all the metal loaded in a certain amount of time didn't allow me to strip it all, I stripped a few of them and got a lot more for the #1 insulated. Also got some copper and $10 worth of yellow brass, little bits of random stuff and today I made the most I've ever made scrapping before. I'm gonna pick up some ductile iron pipe and the air duct system tomorrow plus whatever else they have.
RevenantDusk 
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