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Called my usual yard this morning, and they are buying No. 2 copper for $1.80/lb. Three weeks ago it was $3.20. Called another yard and they are buying at $2.65/lb.

Which is funny, since the...

Took in load of tin and shred in, prices fell from $180 a ton to $160ton. I need to call and see what the other big yard in the area is doing, as that my main yard has started paying the same for...

Thanks, this is a good starting point.

I very rarely pick something up and go straight to the yard. I usually bring everything home, remove all the non ferrous into their respective buckets and piles, and then sort the ferrous out into a...

semiconductor and shielding. I've only put in new cable, and the semiconductor looks more like a semihard foam, but maybe after aging and being exposed to too much water it turns to goo, dunno. When...

Very messy though, so don't wear your going to meeting clothes :-P

I'm thinking about trying to get into buying the cores from shops, but don't know much about it. If you are doing so, give me some hints on what has worked for you so far. Such as, how often to you...

Hmm, The only political signs I've seen have either been cold rolled or galvanized. Rebar is not cold rolled, and galvanized rebar is not used a whole bunch. There is epoxy coated rebar, but it is...

What coating would that be?

Most rebar is made with about the same stuff that bed frames are made from... old railroad rail. VERY high carbon, which makes it very hard.

Yeah, with the connectors taken off I would have gotten $1.15 a pound.

It depend on what I am doing. The thinner cutoff discs can be faster, and easier to use on smaller material (like 1/4" round rod) but also are consumed faster. The slightly thicker cutoff wheels...

My yard pays electric motor price on them, which is about .25 a pound. Sometimes I grab the wire, sometimes I chunk in the motor box.

One of my brother's side jobs is doing light remodeling, handyman stuff on quite a few rent houses. They don't have a lot of turnover in tenants, but it happens. Today I got the hook up from the...

I like the idea of videos, but try for some production values. A single fixed, wide angle of someone guy at a bench tearing stuff up doesn't usually teach much.

I have a full set of nut drivers...

92 F250 extended cab diesel
16ft utility trailer
homemade 9x10 utility trailer with sideboards (This usually sits on the side of the shop, getting filled with trash until I make a run to the dump.)...

I pretty much drive by it everyday. Sometimes a week or two goes by with nothing new, and then suddenly the cookie jar is full again.

I've got an illegal dump ground just around the corner from my house. I kinda consider it something between my personal savings account and a magical cookie jar that is never empty. The first time I...

The yard I deal with is only giving 180 a ton for cars. There has to be someone paying more around here, as that there are several people offering $180 for junk cars. I'm not really set up to...

It is the same as anything else you scrap, you have to process it to get the most money. Take all the non-ferrous off that you can get to, and the battery, and the Cat. If it is sitting on just...

Could try to find or cobble a cart together that would work for both the mower and the bike. If you find something that is a bit too heavy to pedal, then bring out the mower. I'm thinking a...

People that play with metal art use propane tanks to build things like pigs and other artsy things. Might be a way to get a little more than scrap price. Oxygen bottles make excellent wind chimes.

But not as efficient as your own quads. :-)

At $3 a gallon for gas, and $.50-$.65 cents a pound for cans, it takes about 160 cans to pay for a gallon of fuel. I have no idea how long a gallon of...

I like starting your own collection service in the neighborhood, or finding a way to haul them on your bike. The riding mower just burns fuel that costs money, and is not any faster than the bike.
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Worked for an electrical contractor in 1998 and we replaced all the wires under the flight line on Little Rock AFB. We hauled in four loads of 4/0 wire on a 30 ft gooseneck trailer. Copper was low...

That I really do not know. I've run across some heavier ground wire off of electric poles that has been bent enough to be worked hardened. At the bottom of the pole it is wound into a spiral before...