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To: Red Badger

I get your comment, but I think that’s solid copper, not tubing. 6 pallets like that of tubing wouldn’t be close to a full load nor that value.


4 posted on 09/21/2026 5:49:41 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

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5 posted on 09/21/2026 6:01:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: FreedomPoster

Zooming in on the picture it does look like tubing.


6 posted on 09/21/2026 6:03:17 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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I deal with a company in Boise that hauls lumber on their flatbed maxi trucks. However, their main business is being a scrap yard. They haul crushed autos over to the coast/Portland and haul lumber and other commodities back to Boise on their flatbeds.

They recycle copper Romex wire. They have a machine that strips the casing off the wire, chops it up into 1/8” long pieces and blows it into cardboard bins up to 4000 pounds.
They load 16 bins on a flatbed and take it to some smelter over in OR. A full maxi flatbed is 64,000 pounds. They get about two loads a month.

They also recycle Catalytic converters and recently tires.
There is a lot of money in scrap.


8 posted on 09/21/2026 6:09:45 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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