From time to time we get someone bringing in a copper clad grounding rod thinking they have a gold mine on their hands. I remember one guy even saying he weighted it on his bathroom scale and it should be worth $XX.XX dollars.

The look on these peoples faces when we stick the big old magnet to their big heavy piece of copper is priceless.



We then show them the pile of grounding rods we have stacked in the corner and say "Don't worry, your not the only one that thought they had struck it rich" and add their grounding rod to the pile after we pay them unprepared steel price for the rod which equals about $.60 cents.