Thieves Hit My Physical Therapists

[Taylortractornut]

Its a bad thing here in a good county they dont see it as stealing since its stolene already they dont ask any questions. Bubba syndrome the bad thing about it things like the old water meters and items from the city are supposed auction items or put them up on bids in the paper. THe law doenst ask questions, about his outfit. When you have scrap to get rid of and cant take it he will take it from you for 1/3rd value. the other man scrps alot of things. When my friend down the road passed away he scrapped his metal fo him since he isnt allowed in most yards now. It was legal for him to take it as it was inherited but they did have alot of ill gained items.


You wouldnt belives whats been scrapped. SMC has a yard that wont resell scrap. I was there taking a 40 yard can of flat paint cans. A man drove a 72 chevy straight as an arrow the guy weiged it and then let it roll off the scales into the pile. Made me sick. I went in to buy it no can do.

Recetly a couple teens stole a 98 Chevy from a boy at school and scrapped it. I have learned that the theives often take a battered car with out checking the title or paper work. They have an ingenious solution burn the car.


Our problem here is like all the times you call the law on fols stealing ground wires, The deptuties in this town spend all day on the state lines trying to catch a can of beer than a theif. I know several times Ive called on the renters down the road they know them and dont bother since they are familiar with them. THe last time I called it was 45 minutes before the first car got here. It takes about 50 minutes to drive from one end to the other long ways. The other thing we have trouble with when folks are caught the usually get off with just paying for the stolen wire. It just stinks the whole way around.

 

[2manyrocks]

At some point, the state legislatures may have to outlaw the scrap sale of copper to put an end to this or put so many restrictions in place that it's uneconomical to sell scrap ACs and copper wire. Or the placement of AC units and security for them is going to have to radically change.

 

[JB4310]

This is the first I've heard of stealing central ac units for scrap.

I've heard of all the others, the copper pipe and gutters etc. but not ac's

I produce and collect a small amount of scrap copper and aluminum thru my contracting business, about a month ago I sold copper for $2.50 a pound, which I thought was pretty good. got 50 bucks for a loose 5 gal pail full.

My buddy is a plumber and he's hording copper, he's got twenty 55 gallon drums packed full! I told him to sell now, but he thinks the price is going even higher.

I did a job years ago for an 8 building complex, all copper gutters and leaders. I had the scrap all piled to the ceiling in one of the basements. When I came back after a weekend it was all gone, one of the facility manager's sons took it. Nothing I could do cause it was never stipulated that the scrap was mine Copper was not that high back then but there had to be 500 pounds at least.

The old churches I work on have alot of copper components, luckily most is out of reach of those toothless thieves.

BTW, Good luck with that shoulder Bird

JB

 

[2manyrocks]

I think there a discussion on TBN a while back about thieves trying to steal copper gutters off churches.

They are welcome to the copper jacket on FMJ ammo if they want to try to catch some between their teeth.

 

[JB4310]

Well I did a little dumpster diving myself yesterday , not really looking for scrap but I bet this is worth something.

Pulled out a long 130 foot 10 Gauge 4 wire super insulated extension cord.

JB

 

[jimmyj]

Well I did a little dumpster diving myself yesterday , not really looking for scrap but I bet this is worth something.

Pulled out a long 130 foot 10 Gauge 4 wire super insulated extension cord.

JB

Looks almost new! Why would someone throw something like that out? Sheesh.:confused2:

 

[jinman]

JB4310 must dumpster dive in the high-rent district. I want to know where he goes and beat him to it.:laughing:

 

[JB4310]

Looks almost new! Why would someone throw something like that out? Sheesh.:confused2:

JB4310 must dumpster dive in the high-rent district. I want to know where he goes and beat him to it.:laughing:

I washed it

This was an industrial/ contractor supply house that was moving.
I didn't even know they were moving, when I pulled in I saw the outside yard empty and the we're moving sign. Then I saw every dumpster divers dream, five 30 yard cans all lined up at the loading docks.

I just touched the tip of the ice berg, some of the cans had sorted metals so I didn't touch those, but this came from a general garbage can. All kinds of interesting stuff in there, computers monitors phones, cases of industrial caulk, all kinds of stuff from their showroom, racking and shelving etc.

This cord was on a large commercial Karcher hot water pressure washer, looked old but complete. there was a nice retractable spool with hose on it but I couldn't get it off the machine.

I'm going back today to see if the gate is still open. It's dirty work, as it looks like they swept the floors and dumped it on top of everything, but it's worth it if you can find a little treasure.

I don't really have a use for the cord, not sure what it would be good for.
It looks like a high quality cord, it says water resistant, but I'm pretty sure you could take a bath with it energized the insulation is so thick.

JB.

 

[jinman]

I don't really have a use for the cord, not sure what it would be good for.
It looks like a high quality cord, it says water resistant, but I'm pretty sure you could take a bath with it energized the insulation is so thick.

JB.

JB, looking at that cord and twist style plugs (Hubbell?), it looks like the kind used on generators to hook up power to the transfer box. It's probably worth $30 to $50 by itself when used as a cord, but not worth nearly that much as scrap.

 

[JDgreen227]

JB, looking at that cord and twist style plugs (Hubbell?), it looks like the kind used on generators to hook up power to the transfer box. It's probably worth $30 to $50 by itself when used as a cord, but not worth nearly that much as scrap.

I have never understood why places just throw stuff in dumpsters, makes more sense to leave it out and let people pick thru it. Was going by an elementary school about 3 miles distant last week, the school district is closing it, they had about a dozen pianos out front marked "free"....a few days later wife and I were driving by and I saw a bunch of guys with a big flatbed trailer pulling out, they must have taken all of them from what the trailer looked like.