How does the scrapyard know what to pay for washingmachines?

Originally Posted by miyamuto

So If you bring unstripped wire to the scrapyard, they stripp it before they pay you?

Yea sure why not, this experience would be a good lesson for ya.

Before everyone became environmentally conscious one of the yards I dealt with paid me $0.10 a pound to burn wire. With a three ton flat deck and a gravel truck full of insulated copper it was easy to make twelve hundred in an evening.

Dump it all into a big pile toss on some diesel then flash it up, after the flames died down pump cold water onto the pile to stop the copper from oxidizing.

We had the best returns ( 76% ) that the yard ever got back from a burn and this was after our sticky fingers.

Tells me the guy doing this job before us had a heavier hand.

Thirty percent is factored in for the plastic when copper wire is being purchased or burnt.