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    What I would do is ask your self what is your time worth to you.



    To me..my time is worth $28 an hour as thats what I was paid on my last job. But when a company hires me to "teach" them how to go green I charge upwards of $40 an hour and more from how many people and to the time of the year or the time of the week they want me.

    But lets take my $28 an hour. That would brake down to 0.46 a minute. So lets say. to take something apart that once apart you can make 60cents but it takes me 5minutes would it be worth it to me to make that 60cents or move onto something else that I can make more money on?

    Sometimes its best to put something onto the side until you have nothing else to do..like on a rain out or when the roads are iced over.

    Just my two cents or in this case $0.92 cents as it took me just under two minutes to type all of this out lmao.

    For those who do not know what I did for work before I started my company...I worked on power plants as a pipe fitter. I was laid-off and was not able to get onto another job and this company just grew from that....I think I went into that story once before so yea.
    My company name was Easy Recycle but has since been closed
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    Thank you everyone for your answers! Here is all the copper taken out.


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    Good job. Wait till you find the big ones....he he.. I had a ac unit from a warehouse. It had to be 70's vintage,. Was not a complete unit. But did have the compressor. Took 20 mins to get the compressor broke apart with the torch and another 10 to get the copper out. Before the compressor was like 100-125 lbs at 20 a lb. Now it was 100 lbs junk steel and 20 lbs copper. Oh that was a good day. Need to find more of them :>~

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