metal=money $$$

[hudson144 150]

Two metro north supervisors from croton harmon "suspended without pay" for cashing in on scrap metal. Looks like some disciplinary action ahead for these two supervisors. Reminds me of something recently in the fire service.

[SteveOFD 176]

Several months ago I took the two garbage bags full of scrap wire I had been collecting from jobs to the scrap yard. I was expecting to get $20-$30. To my surprise the two garbage bags got me $100. Since then I am more diligent in passing up any scrap wire I find around a job site.

Edited September 12, 2008 by SteveOFD

[hudson144 150]

Can you just imagine how much money you could get if those garbage bags had a rescue truck in it????

[TRUCK6018 50]

Can you just imagine how much money you could get if those garbage bags had a rescue truck in it????

Not as much, last I checked, scrap steel went for 8 or 9 cents per one hundred pounds. Last I checked, #1 (clean) copper was about $2.85 per pound. It's a no brainer, copper is where the money is, that's why construction site's have had the copper plumbing stolen from within the walls.

[TRUCK6018 50]

From the Daily Freeman online:

TUSTEN - A man accused of cutting railroad signal wires to harvest the copper inside has been arrested, according to state police at Liberty.

Full story here:

Daily Freeman