The picture doesn't do it justice.
Majority of it is insulated copper which is going for anywhere from 50 cents to $2.50 a pound. We figured it weight all around 1,300 pounds or so. So on the high end we're probably throwing out $1,300 worth of scrap copper.
Now keep in mind this is just rough guesstimations pound wise by 2 guys who were bored. So we can be off badly, or within the ballpark. But either way we're throwing out a lot scrap.
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Landfilling that is stupid for so many reasons. #1 being you can actually get paid for bringing it to the scrapyard
It won't get to landfill someone smart will take it at some point.
The landfill guys that process the trash will scramble to get it off the line before it's all chewed up.
I hope they have some Thunderdome type fight to the death competition for it.
They can use any item from the landfill as a weapon.
PARTS UNKNOWN
Ray, ripping the copper out of your walls for liquor money is FUCKED
I love Reddit. Bringing ideas to life.
They gave weapons made out of scrap copper. Winner takes all
Guy with the biggest dozer wins.
Don’t discredit the little dozer with a big heart.
My local landfill has a couple of guys that sit right just outside the gates buying scrap metal. Im sure the county is aware and is glad to let them reduce the load on the dumpsters and earn a few bucks.
Probably watch for babies and chopped up bodies mostly
Most landfills it goes directly to the fill face, no processing
You obviously live somewhere a bit more sofisticated than the rest of us. Anywhere I've lived, the landfill is literally a dump. No line no chewing up. Drop it and it gets covered by earthmoving equipment.
If my experience is any indication the apprentices will get it ...
loaded into the foreman's personal vehicle for him.
We gotta fill the future mines for whatever civilization spawns after us somehow
No joke, we should mine landfills for precious metals.
We're sort of on the first stages of that already, as soon as they cap a landfill they tap it for natural gas from everything that decomposes underneath, but yeah the more permanent stuff will come later.
They have done that with little success. Old landfills didn’t have much non-ferrous metal. Newer landfills have some but not nearly enough to justify the cost. Landfills are adding hundreds if not thousands of tons of trash a day with very little of that actually being valuable metal. Metal that is recovered is then often very dirty and corroded. It’s been buried for years and inside the piles can also be very hot. This decreases the value as it’s not as easy to recycle it into new clean metal.
I keep making that joke about roadways up north and salt. 1000's of years after we will be gone will be a massive interlocking network of salt. Sooooooo far inland they will have no clue how they formed.
https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Compacted_machinery
Comex is over 5$ a lb now..scrap price in the 3.50 + per lb range. That's probably 5000lbs.. stripped that be like $17-20k
I know it's crazy how lazy people are
If you don't get charged with theft for doing so, I know utilities and rail are called in to authorities if proper documentation isn't in hand.
Offer to drive it to the dump for them.
Tell them if they let you load it up on the clock you will do it for a tank a fuel.
This guy knows the wager!
You can get a metal dumpster dropped off on site to fill. Don’t have to haul anywhere they will come pick it up
They are telling OP to ‘offer to take it to the dump’ so OP can sell it instead of wasting it. Not to make things easier.
I suppose you could just have the rolloff driver take it straight to the scrapyard and it'd probably only cost you a couple hundo.
I have just given your address to 100 crackheads.
Good luck.
That's like a 2 crackhead job max.
one meth head and a three wheel bicycle
Bitch you mean a tricycle?
Its a bicycle with a spare wheel the meth head jacked earlier this morning
Nah. 2 crackheads to move the copper and 98 to have sex in OP’s car.
We call that a soup kitchen
Signed dirty Mike and the boys
Fuck yeah people who get the joke!!
Nah, a soup line
We will have sex in your Prius again..
RUB YOUR DICKS ON THE CAR AS YOU RUN AWAY
Hell yeah dude 😂
I think the 100 crackheads are for the battle royale, not because they are needed for the work
Those are pre-inflation numbers. We're now in a crackcession.
Let. Them. Fight.
I smell a game show...
Is this the 5 o clock free crack giveaway?
That’s like a Smaugian treasure to a methhead
Rare adjectives…
Ea-Nasir would have sold that.
I came to the comment section looking for this one. /r/reallyshittycopper is leaking
Nope, he would’ve mixed it with random cheap metals before selling the copper
Tin tin taller bin.
He would treat you with such contempt.
Copper headed for the trash? That is not interesting. More like mildly infuriating. And I'm not sure about the mildly part.
This is just bait. Nobody is throwing that away.
I mean, what is that amount worth?
Read the post
Nope, the front loader dumped in a dump truck and it was hauled to the city dump.
W.A.S. What A Shame!
Why? Why throw away and just as importantly, waste it?
r/ScrapMetal is crying and punching the air right now
I thought that’s where I was and was super confused. Like even unstripped that’s at least a $1 a pound.
If you were in my town, you'd already be swarmed by crackheads and methheads.
Strip that red gold!
You have bigger problems, I don't know how to tell ya but you guys are pixilated.
Ya, but if he sells this off, he can afford better resolution for him and his family
They’ve been blocked IRL like that black mirror episode
i would sneak back later at night and take all that shit
but also having to strip all that insulation would suck 😂
Hey, it's free money (that you have to work for)!
You don’t have to strip it, it’s worth a lot even as-is. It wouldn’t be worth stripping anyways with being so many tiny pieces, unless you go the methhead route and burn it off (don’t do that).
It's about $1.25/lb more bright bare.
I could strip like 4 of those cuts in about a minute.
Each of those cuts is a few lbs or more.
Most of that wire looks to be 500mcm-750mcm. Minimum weight would be 1.5 pounds a foot. That pile weighs way more than 1300 pounds. Probably worth 5-10k the way it sits and probably worth 10-20k stripped
I thought 1300 lbs seemed like a low estimate. I can’t believe they just threw it all away
Throw it out or your boss wants to weigh it in himself
Are you throwing away those 2 giant Lego men well?
Man you run that through a stripper and you easily have 1000 lbs of raw copper which sells for more like 3.50-4.50 a pound.
Thats a $3000 pay day to anyone willing to take the 8 hours to strip it. Crackhead or not if they said anyone can get it outta there id be volunteering
r/ReallyShittyCopper
That's a Victorville Paycheck right there.
So this will probably be shipped to Africa and some poor soul will burn off the plastic with a big fire and inhale all that toxic fumes.
That’s definitely more than $1300 in the southern states. I cashed out $2000 for a pile only a quarter of the size of what you have there.
Yea as someone who works with this stuff bexactly and often, you’re way off… from the picture those seem to be mostly 500kcmil copper cuts going for around $3.67 (88%) as is, after it’s been stripped (jacket/insulation removed) it goes as bare bright copper which was $4.55 (at my yard, also very high right now) today, the weight ehh may be close but I think you are a few hundred pounds light on your guesstimate, but at 1,300 lbs and a little time your missing almost $6k from this trip (minus insulation weight) Hope that may help persuade your decisions
I worked at a construction site pulling data cable. We found this type of wire just thrown in the big trash containers and pulled it out. Once it was all said and done it was right around $4000 that we split 3 ways. That was over 12 years ago so the prices have gone way up. You should definitely think about taking that jn.
Crackeds, check this out
Melt them down into copper ingots. Sell the ingots. You make at least a bit back.
Most places won’t accept homemade copper ingots. Ask me how I know…
My scrapyard used to but then people got slick and dishonest and would stick lead or some other dense metal in the middle of the ingots.
You need to forge them into daggers first
Is this a job site? There's usually some hierarchy among electricians about who gets to take it to sell it.
Keep it. That’s probably a few grand worth of copper
Please don't let them throw this away. Please recycle
this is one of those things where you call me and i stop whatever im doing, call my friend with a pickup or trailer and i come get all of it. 1300 for one hour of work (not counting driving cause that's just life requirements anyway) that's some insanely good wages right there! im not on anything. im just poor and could so use that kinda free money.
Do you mean they have some sort of deal with a recycling company? There’s no way they’re just throwing that out, and if they were, why wouldn’t they let you take it?
He will take all of it
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Gee, I wpuld gladly pay for a couple of those thicker wires, great for tiny high current runs!
I'll send a dumpster. Load it up and I'll take it away for free!
Rabbit
On the high end that’s $3,000.00
Not even the mid range end, that's a lot of high grade copper
Was being facetious and going off his estimated weight/price range. Definitely looks to be over $3,000 worth to me, even at those low ball numbers.
https://i.redd.it/m5u8b94zd17g1.gif
Here I am picking up scraps of #14 and #12 on the clock.
Cross post to r/scrapmetal and kiss your DMs Goodbye
Exact wire I'm seeing around going to the trash on this Amazon Datacenter I work on
And you’re taking it all home with you, right?
HA I wish
Ok?
You misspelled STEAL.
Used to be a parts runner for an electrical contractor. Once a month, I would take loads of scrap to salvage. The money went (mostly) to pay the bar tab next door to the shop. I may have pocketed a few bucks here and there, with my shop foreman's blessing.
A friend of mine was saying that at his last job, there was a conex filled end to end and top to bottom with copper. It was agreed at the end of the job that it would be taken to be sold and split evenly among the workers. However, they conveniently were given a whole weekend off, and that Monday the conex was emptied and management "didn't know what happened." Apparently he said there was a lock on it even a 50 cal couldn't break.
Lockpicking lawyer would disagree 😂
So much rabbit.
Only seen more on demo jobs.
That Minecraft bro has his eyes on it.
I scrap a load of stranded copper about this size every ~6 months or so. Usually get about $2-2.5k, nice little bonus split between the techs.
Find a scrapyard with a granulator and make some coin.
You could call a scrap yard and they will come, pick it all up, and pay you.
“Methmaniac3434 wants to know your location”
...... Why? How is scrapping it not just as easy?
Yeah that’s a good bit of money laying right there.
There is no such thing as scrap copper mate, just ask Ea Nasir
Ol mate taking a shit in the corner hahah
Dm me an address and I'll come pick it all up for free no cost to you
Looks like them Mexicans will take that...
Do this in your free time, and get your cost out of it the rest in the tip jar
Heck where I'm at you can just leave that out and somebody with meth teeth on a stolen bicycle will call somebody with a superiorly beat up 93 ford ranger and pick it up free of charge in probably like less than 30 minutes
Excited tweaker noises
Don't you dare fucking throw it away
I’d be back after work loading that up.
what a waste of metal
It will never get to a landfill. It’s probably already slated for a trip to the scrap yard. Which is why it’s already separated out from actual trash.
Trash it.
This isn’t r/mildlyintersting it’s r/mildlyinfuriating.
The insulation should be stripped off and it can be taken to a metal recycling location for payment.
Id take it all for you
i know i dump scrap at the scrappers and do not take payment because corporate has made it so fucking hard to get the money and track it. then there is also just no incentive other than good job you saved us money.
Just post it online. A tweaker will come get it. I used to work at a power supply company, they cautioned me about not touching generators and told me to never Google people getting fried, it happens a lot. Despite knowing the risk, they risk it all for copper to scrap for drugs. Wild
Send all that my way, ill get paid for recycling it if you arent willing to lmao
I’ll get it, where at?
I would happily come load my pickup up with your copper!
My guy ...you're way off on your weight estimate..that would fill a Gaylord box at around 5k lbs each.. that's 85+% recovery wire..strip it and you're in the 3.50 per lb range..so you're looking at $15k +
There's some aluminum wire there..the black wire w red stripes ..but it's still worth something
Why would you do that? Copper is up last I checked, fucking dumb just to toss it
Thousands of years of bad copper
That’s a bum’s treasure trove
Well said
Half the work is done, majority are lunch box size. Id be eating lunch at coffee time and just shoving as much in the lunch box and making a rabbit pile at home. Strip it whenever I had extra time.
I knew a person who got fired for taking scrap wire like that off a job site.
When I worked as an industrial electrician we'd have a few apprentices strip all the scrap at the end of a job and the boss/foreman would let us go scrap it and split the proceeds as a bonus. Depending on how big the job was, we ended up with some pretty nice pocket money. Tell your boss that you'll take it off his hands and put those apprentices to work!
Idk why I thought it was a pile of hundreds of jump ropes
r/Electricians
Thought it was Minecraft
Rage bait equivalent
give it to me
Scrap it. Or find someone that’ll take it and give you a cut of the profit. Why throw it away? I have a guy that’ll take the time to strip off the jacketing to get a better price and give me 50%.
Craigslist used to be great to find people like that
Money?
Write your employer's execs directly.
Let them know the company is throwing away $.
It will be fixed in a week and your incompetent managers will get laid off.
Threr are many $$$ there as scrap.
Usually on construction sites it’s taken for recycling (by or for the site owner-pending the contact) and the monies are given to the owner of the project. I doubt this is being tossed.
Feels great as a current electrical apprentice hearing all my journeymen talk about how they used to give scrap/the money from scrap to the apprentices, but they can't do it anymore without serious legal trouble.
This belongs in mildyinfuriating
What are two dudes from a retro game doing in this photo?
That will not hit a landfill i will tell you that much copper
Message me I will take it
So that pile is worth way more than 1300$. Those look to be at least 350's and it's worth buying a 400$ power stripper on Amazon. I took in two home depot storage totes stripped, not totally full and got 4.20/lb recently and got 2500$. That pile is at least six times as large so i would say you are looking at 10k stripped.
Let the tweekers have it.
Probably wouldn’t be worth their time to strip the copper, it really isn’t worth that much despite the common trope of people going in to houses and stripping copper out of the walls. Like it really isn’t worth the risk let alone the work lol.
Yeah 5-10k isn’t worth it /s 👍
Wrong
Ok buddy ask yourself how much an average construction company makes per hour running a crew on a site vs stripping fucking insulated copper lmao
Scrap yards take it with the insulation still on it.
My husband is an electrician on a housing site. Every few months the boss takes their lil laundry baskets of scrap to the scrap guy and gets £100 for it. They do literally nothing to it, just throw it in the scrap basket while they work.
Put it on an elevated grid of rebar, light a fire under it.
Yah yah, bad for environment, I stop recycling just to do my part in speeding up the deterioration of this s*** hole planet.