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    Nice Website. I'm curious about the wire harvesting. How often do you get jobs like that and what percentage do you return to the customer? Are you reselling or scrapping the telecom wire?


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    I had the brainstorm not too long ago. I haven't had any contracts to do so yet.
    I would sell the wire for scrap: no question.
    There is so much abandoned wire out there...
    Lots of risk, though... You could do a lot of damage if you removed the wrong wires!
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    Spin,

    If you do get one of those jobs, do some investigation before selling those CAT 5 / Ethernet wires. Within an hours drive of me, I can sell that for $1.20 a pound. They will actually pick up for free if I have over 100 pounds.

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    Nice! Thanks MT!

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