Quote Originally Posted by YardApe View Post
What you have is red stripe URD wire..ITS an underground cable.I buy alot of it.I also do recoveries on the material to determine copper/alum content.Honestly I cant imagine breaking any significant amount of this stuff down by hand.Ive stripped some with a stripper in the past but its not cost effective for me.The copper can be anywhere from 12% to 30% and the alum is generally 15% to 25% and it will vary by size a little.If it were mine I would cut off a foot of it and get a copper/alum recovery and then call your local yards with the information and get a price based on the recovery.You might be surprised
i always get number 1 for this copper, which right now is about 2.70(and thats pretty low) in about 5 feet there is 1-2 pound of copper plus alluminum, and it takes me only about 5-8 hours to get 100 pounds. pure profit man. so i mean its all about doing the math from there man