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Salvage price for copper is ~$3/lb. Imagine a 100 dollar bill that weighs 30 lbs. That seems...inconvenient.
by javajosh 5y ago
Salvage price for copper is ~$3/lb. Imagine a 100 dollar bill that weighs 30 lbs. That seems...inconvenient.
- axiolite 5y ago> Imagine a 100 dollar bill that weighs 30 lbs. That seems...inconvenient. "Carry this 30 lbs box out to your car for me and I'll give you $100..." Sounds like an excellent deal to me. I can't imagine many grocery store employees ever get that big of a tip.
- blamazon 5y agoYou have to consider this in the context of an active construction site where material handling equipment is strewn about everywhere. 30 pounds is nothing to a pallet jack or a forklift that can go to a telehandler that can put the load in a pickup truck. A wide variety of power equipment is just sitting around, keyed-alike. Thousands of pounds of copper can be gone in a moment to a clever gang of thieves. Still not a great ROI for the criminal risk being taken, but the people taking this stuff live in very different circumstances than myself and presumably yourself.