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I would say so. I've just got yard work and a few minor chores to do today. Should be a nice day.
I keep my yard pretty manicured. I'd rather do it myself. It's done now. My yard isn't very big so it doesn't take long.
I keep mine manicured also. It's an acre and half. I weed eat it twice a year wether it needs it or not and hit the stuff on the steep banks with round up ;-)
Not exactly what I meant by manicured. I'm not sure exactly what size my lot is but it's nowhere near what yours is. I mow, weed eat , and edge every time. I have a sprinkler system and usually mow twice a week.
I'm working on ours that's close to the house. We ripped it all out with a backhoe when we put in the new swimming pool. Had my concrete guys do a big shot create retaining wall and pond that are craved to look like stone. Then the bottom fell out of housing market so it's just kind of been on hold
I wish. The major metro areas are turning around nicely but all the rural areas are still hurting pretty bad. Where I'm at if the banks stop foreclosing on people right now there is over a 2 year supply of inventory on the market. Prices are still dropping here
Yikes is right. I could drive to the Bay Area for work but its not worth it. I did that before and my job site got hit for 20 grand in tools. Thanks for the bubble wishes though
I remember our customers telling me about tools and stuff getting stolen. Several had thousands of feet of welding cable stolen. One guy got hit three times.
Yes it can get pretty bad. I've seen jobs where they wait until the rough plumbing and electrical wiring is all installed then they go in and strip it all out. They take all the copper in for recycling. It got so bad for a while that we pulled a trailer onto the job sites and had a guy spend the night on site
At my work we have had twice where someone cut the conduit going to the gate opener and pulled all the wire out. I have a hard time understanding how three, one hundred foot pieces of 12 gauge wire are worth that much hassle. Heck if they came in and asked I'd reel them off three hundred feet off the spools I have and then wouldn't have to go out and pull wire and replace conduit.
You got figure recycle price on copper is 50-60 cents a lb. only takes a minute to clip the wires, hook a pull rope to truck and drive off. Then they just light a fire in a barrel and burn the insulation off. They can strip all the copper in a house in less then 30 minutes
I can tell you've been hit before. I was thinking that copper prices were higher than that not too long ago.
Yes I've been hit before. That price is low. Our little recycle center doesn't pay market rates up here because unless you want to drive for an hour there isn't any other place to take stuff
There are at least three or four around here that I know of. Years ago when I worked for another guy doing the same thing we would scrap out old machines that people didn't want to fix. Back then most of the windings were copper instead of aluminum like is used today.
Only the one here. Even for alumin cans this place only gives you the CRV value that you paid. They don't pay anything for the extra scrap value. Right now they are paying 1.54 a pound for cans. The place an hour away is adding scrap value in so they pay 2.10 a pound
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