Hello everyone this is going to be my second entry in the scrap metal breakdown contest. Sledge made some stiff competition with his entry and buried mine, so time to try again . Thanks if you enjoy!

Ok so in this I will be breaking down a full pickup truck load of scrap metal I got from a basement clean out, here is the story behind it:

So about 4-5 months ago my grandpa passed away and he was a great woodworking and owned a construction business his whole life. He worked out of his shop in his basement for his woodworking hobby which is now full of tools and equiptment and tons of stuff, you could build 10 houses with whats in there. So my grandma decided she is moving in with someone to help her live and stuff so she needs the basement cleaned out. She wants it all given to family aswell and not sold. I will post a picture of what I got from the basement that I will keep and use, I got tons of great tools and will be getting more next time we go and clean it more. Also there is tons of wiring/pipes/old metal/duct work/random metal that was there and theres still more. Thats what I will be breaking down and sorting in this post.



Here is a picture of some of the tools I've gotten out so far:



Ok so here is the truck with all the stuff in it I will be breaking down:






First thing I will be sorting out is the most abundant and that is wire. I will be sorting it into 3 categories. Strippable - Wire I will be stripping and is bigger than 12 GA. Sell as is- Bucket it and sell it how it is after cutting all the ends off for brass plugs and other stuff. And christmas lights, which my yard buys seperate. So here's the pics of the wire. The first one is the strippable.








Please read on, only 10 pictures per post are allowed, so I will be doing more in the next post. Direct all thanks to this first post. Enjoy!