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Absolutely those 50' rolls of 1" & 3/4" copper was damaged. See what they looked like in bails!😅 Guessing some plumbers, city utilities are missing locks on the Van's & garages..
Im confused by the “it looks damaged” comments. If there is a part that has damaged its very easy to cut it out and install a coupling. No one ever throws it out because its bent in a spot ot two.
Oh gosh, if I was stealing new copper pipe rolls, I would never in hundred years think of beating it up a little bit so IT IS THEN DAMAGED. thank goodness the thieves will never think of that.
I Drive a rubbish truck for a living and the amount of scrap metal I pull out of the trash on a daily basis is insane it help me pay for my Dodge Challenger. My boss just bought a scrap yard and now I sell it to him.
How interesting, we chuck it in the recycling bin and know nothing of what happens next, so thank you for showing us the other side of the recycling bin,
Scrap yards are very protective of who they buy their scrap from , especially the high dollar copper . They get your ID, drivers license number , picture and vehicle license number every time you go across their scales . That trailer load is worth a lot of money . Too bad it's not mine .
You won’t believe what contractors will bring in after building big plants. My friend owned a scrap yard and he said one company brought in thousands of pieces of unused rebar and conduit to get scrap prices. They were left over from building a huge chicken processing plant. So he paid pennies on the dollar for all of it. So just just because ppl scrap brand new stuff it doesn’t mean it’s stolen
I agree with some other commenters here. Likely stolen when there's large partial rolls of new copper tubing. Probably taken from job sites. My neighbor had to bring his camper to sleep in when him n wife was having their house built. People were stealing rolls of 12/14-2 romex wiring, copper tubing, and fittings
Wondering why you wouldn't consider running that copper tube through a metal shredder before packaging for transport? The bails would be denser, cutting down on trucking costs (Although, trucks can only carry so much weight...) Would the mill not pay more as it is smelter ready?
You would think culling through the stock you could bundle decent random lengths of pipe (not tube) and retail it to the trade for higher than scrap prices.
No tradesman worth their salt would risk putting their name on a project using materials that didn't undergo quality control by an official retailer. A lot of this looks like soft drawn ACR which is used for refrigerants and doing anything neglectful that may cause a leak of refrigerant is a fine in the tens of thousands.
@@tomrogers9467sometimes you get quantity surveyors ( guesses )who have over ordered on large contracts ( housing estates ,flats offices ) no one know what the correct amounts are required and consequently the surplus gets scrapped with no one being accountable but someone getting the financial benefit when it comes round to the end of the build, sometimes collaboration is involved but never detected…..
In CA (and maybe elsewhere), anything made from copper or brass that is used for potable water has to be "lead free". Wonder if that new tubing isn't pure enough? See "California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC): Requirements for Low Lead Plumbing Products in California"
At AU$12 a kilo it's well worth collecting. 2 years and so far I've collected about $3500 worth- not cashing in till I get a tonne so I'll have a decent payday of $10- 12k.
20+ years ago, it went as follows. Bare bright, #1, refinery #1, and #2. Don't know how it grades out now. With over 2 decades as a warehouse manager, I've baled enough of that stuff, anong other things, to make a sky scraper. It's not somoething I'll miss anytime soon. Our primary mill was Cerro, but sent a lot to Concorde trading as well. Now with Nucor owning most of the yards and mills, it's a whole different ballgame....
Scrappers are so slow when it comes to money I understand they want to make $2 a pound fast I would have gave you $8 a pound for that coil boys put it up for sale before you scrap it I'm telling you
Why would anyone need to "recycle" brand new copper tube still rooled up? This makes no senses at all. 99% chance every inch of that is stolen. Why would anyone sell new copper for scrap? Anyone in the trades would buy or use that. I would tell anyone scrapping full rolls of shiny brand new material to return it from where they got it. You are buying stolen material if you ask me. You have to know that.
Makes me think how many trades hire people knowing they have no documentation or legal right to work or live in the US. Yet somehow that gets a free pass. We get what we tolerate.
No reputable contractor would but the end of a roll or short pieces of pipe and install them as new. Also Could have been out of spec from a manufacturer or leftover pieces from some sort of factory, think bigger picture than a tweaker with a pick up truck.
@@trackjosh I'm not talking about shorts. I'm talking about those 50' + and full new rolls of copper tube going on the conveyor. They don't even cut it up to look like scrap. Full uncut and shiny brand new rolls. Defective out of spec material would probably not be scrapped by the manufacturer for a loss. They would recycle it themselves. That is not scrap material.
There is scrap inherent in metal processing. This could have come from a mill or a repackager. Or even from an industrial end user. The material could be out of spec. Any number of reasons that do not involve meth heads