Awesome morning!

I saw a couple Christmss decorations on top of a garbage bin so decided to check it out. Found 35#'s of Christmas lights, 4 steel framed decorations with lights, 4 surge protectors, a canon camera, steel shelf, 2 fishing poles, some copper pipe, steel shelf, 3 extension cords and a bunch of alum. from screen windows! All at one house lol. Best score of the year for me so far. Pretty excited. I was at that house for 45 minutes loading it all. Might go back for the marble tiles they had in there too, bet craft people would buy those quick

Here's a pic of some of it...Disregard the dog ear in bottom of the pic lol. http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/...psi19dq77k.jpg

Nice Dog Ear! Was that in the scrap pile too?

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Originally Posted by spinroch

Nice Dog Ear! Was that in the scrap pile too?

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Lol, some days I wanna bury him in one lol. He's my assistant, he does the "sniff test" on it all lol

Now the debate over scrapping wires as they are or taking bulbs off and stripping any of it begins. Never had this much Christmas light wire to deal with at once before

This is about 3/4 of the lights I got there today

http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/...pscdfinqts.jpg

As is is what I'd do, replacement bulbs is an option to sell but they aren't usually bought after Christmas. Nice scorr

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Originally Posted by DevinThaScrapper

As is is what I'd do, replacement bulbs is an option to sell but they aren't usually bought after Christmas. Nice scorr

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Thanks. Posting pics of more of it soon. Yea, that's kinda what I figured too. Take til next year to strip it all lol

Probably a stupid question but do yards pay for Christmas lights at reg. ins. wire price if connectors are cut off?

Some yards have a category just for Christmas lights. Depends on your yard...

As is was $.15 as #2 insulated with bulbs and ends cut off was $1.00 but now with the price drop who knows... may do better selling as is...

I snip the bulbs off and mix it with m #2 insulated. Longs as I don't over kill they don't complain.

Out here you can sell the clipped bulbs as copper content $.10 a pound. I am sure it is less now with the price drop

I stripped some a little while back. The recovery rate on just the wire was a tad under 40%. If it's all much the same, there shouldn't be a problem with it going as #2 insulated.

With bulbs is 0.25/# right now at my yard

nice I love xmas left overs trees by the truckload get a good smile

I love when that happens! I have had some huge scores myself. And often it is the last street I go down on garbage day!

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Originally Posted by ScrappyRob

I love when that happens! I have had some huge scores myself. And often it is the last street I go down on garbage day!

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Of coarse it's the last street you go down. When you find the score you stop looking!

I will keep going until I have finished my route. Regardless of how soon I find a good cache. I pull a 6 by 12 trailer with a pick up truck. I was just noting how I have noticed on a slow day, I have often found a good score on the last street of my route.

As others have mentioned, check with your yard on whether to remove the bulbs or not. Last year it was something like .32/pnd and .75 stripped. If you factor in the weight of the bulbs it comes down to a tiny profit for stripped the bulbs one by one. If you have a way to strip them in one swoop then I would do it, or if your the type of scrapper who scraps while watching TV then do it, but other than that it isn't worth the time/money ratio taking bulbs off.

Just my .02!

EDIT!!!! BTW nice score!! If I ever found a house like this it may not hurt to give the doorbell a ring and just let them know you exist. Im sure next time they wouldn't mind callin ya instead of trashin it all!

Thanks for the input everybody. Dropped my phone in snow the night I posted this so been m.i.a. but got it dried out so I'm back lol.
I chopped everything off a big pile of it and they gave me ins. #1 at 1.40 a # so wasn't too bad. That pile was 36#'s. Still got about half that I set aside for a snowy day too so in total it was about 50#'s I got that day. Made about $30 off brass, copper and alum. from there that day and $70 worth of items I'm reselling so it was a pretty good score. I'll never look at Christmas lights the same after chopping all those darn bulbs off though lol

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Originally Posted by armstrt8

As others have mentioned, check with your yard on whether to remove the bulbs or not. Last year it was something like .32/pnd and .75 stripped. If you factor in the weight of the bulbs it comes down to a tiny profit for stripped the bulbs one by one. If you have a way to strip them in one swoop then I would do it, or if your the type of scrapper who scraps while watching TV then do it, but other than that it isn't worth the time/money ratio taking bulbs off.

Just my .02!

EDIT!!!! BTW nice score!! If I ever found a house like this it may not hurt to give the doorbell a ring and just let them know you exist. Im sure next time they wouldn't mind callin ya instead of trashin it all!

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Thanks. I thought about doing that. Definitely gonna drive by this weekend too lol

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I will keep going until I have finished my route. Regardless of how soon I find a good cache. I pull a 6 by 12 trailer with a pick up truck. I was just noting how I have noticed on a slow day, I have often found a good score on the last street of my route.

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I was on my way to shovel my moms driveway when I found it so that was awesome lol

Sorted most of my unsorted pile and took that in today too. Was pretty happy how it turned out. Noticed they gave me old sheet price for ALL of my aluminum though. Everything from alum. foil to heat sinks and some cast alum was labeled old sheet. Seemed weird