Danged barbed wire

Last week I got a job cleaning up an old farm in Charlotte, NC. A large portion of the first load was barbed wire fencing. It had been down for years and was so rusted you could break it with your hands. In the past I have had no problems with taking it to scrap yards.

We went to the first yard and sat for a long time to get to the scale, then were told they would not take it. So we went to a second one that I have dealt with in the past. They wouldn't take it.

I began to make phone calls. After calling all over town I found one yard that said no problems. SO we drove from north Charlotte to south Charlotte, only to be told they didn't take barbed wire.

Finally I had enough and I drove to and hour away to where I knew they would take it. And they did.

By the time we got the job done it had turned a 6 hour day into an 11 hour day.



Has anyone else had problems with Barbed wire?

In BC it's common practice to bundle logs, after years of accumulation there was a mountain of cable to dispose of I spent the better part of two weeks cutting cable into random lengths. I sent out two semi loads.

When I arrived to load the last trailer one morning found it was already loaded the owner of the Ready Mix Plant put one of his guys on it. Still had tons more of heavy scrap to cut up, spent three months at the plant doing a clean up.

There were a couple of ready mix drums from truck where the engine of hydraulics had malfunctioned and the concrete solidified. Like fourteen yards of solid rock, a telephone call was made to the yard and they said no problem they would break it up and use the crushed cement for fill.

The excavator would not lift them had to dig a hole for the trailer to back into then roll the drums onto the trailer from the side, they of course deducted for the waste material but since they were paying for the trucking not a big deal.

You ship in a lot of iron and the yards will treat you right and make allowances for the odd load of crap.