Industrial Copper wire - Page 2

If you can't get any yards to buy it, ship it to someone on the forum. Don't throw it away though!

What the story with some power cables is similar to what you have with railroad scrap.

The story is....
Only the power company buys certain sorts of cable. They own all of the cable.

If someone turns up at a scrapyard with this certain cable, well that someone does not own it, therefor they have in their possession stolen property....

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Where are you located?? I might be able to recommend a yard for you.

Fort Wayne Indiana

Guess that would make sense if it was the cable or elec. comps wire. When I found it I thought man, jackpot. Then all this happened lol

Originally Posted by ryanw

If you can't get any yards to buy it, ship it to someone on the forum. Don't throw it away though!

Thought about it. I've always been kinda skeptical on selling online cause not wanting to get ripped off but I guess there are safe ways to do it

Gonna post a pic in the morning so you guys can check it out. Quite a nice pile

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Man there is about 3 or 4 different yards available. The 2 I have used are Hoosier and Omni Source. Don't know them that well but call around.

Hoosier is where I took it, that's where I always go cause it's a couple minutes away. Gonna try omnisource 1st thing tomorrow morning though

How do I load pics on here?

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

There you go,,,

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/smf-s...rum-video.html

Thanks! Just found that thread a little bit ago. Pics coming soon

What gauge is this wire? Is it huge industrial or like 220

Here's a pic if it worked. A bunch of it was bolted to the rectangle piece. It's copper too

I live in iowa and never had this problem as yards here now have a copy of your license on file and not all but most have cameras to identify you as well so to help protect for theft from the yard and to sell to the yard stolen goods

Originally Posted by travistemple202020

I live in iowa and never had this problem as yards here now have a copy of your license on file and not all but most have cameras to identify you as well so to help protect for theft from the yard and to sell to the yard stolen goods

That's pretty much how it goes here too. Never been turned away like that before

Originally Posted by DevinThaScrapper

What gauge is this wire? Is it huge industrial or like 220

Posted a pic....not sure what the rectangle piece is but wire was bolted to it and it probably weighs 15lbs. It's copper too

here in SA, yards also dont buy certain types of wires
esp those that look as if they come from the railways or the national Telecomms company

also, household wire-not all types but there is one type they dont buy

ive had to throw this away whenever i got it
its disappointing but this is the price we honest scrappers pay due to the high theft rate.

True! They just charged a guy a few cities away from me with stealing over 1million dollars worth. Hoping I can just sell it to somebody to be reused or whatnot. I'm gonna end up with some pretty thick copper speaker wire if not! Lol