Copper Hits All Time High - Page 3

**James** · #21 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by demopro

Its been hard to keep the guys on site away from the copper and working on task, how is everyone dealing with that?

I know of a company around hear that has bins that hold all their copper/wiring, once it goes in the workers can't get it back out. It a bin that has a like a 2"-3" tube where there wire goes in and it's hard to grab it back out.

I am not sure you can stop it completely, but they also include a bonus if the projetc comes in under budget and the workers will split the recycling cash. So it does give them some type of incentive.

NukeWorker · #22 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 10:38 AM

You know, there is something wrong when the Midas muffler shop has a guard and the bank doesn't.

**James** · #23 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by NukeWorker

You know, there is something wrong when the Midas muffler shop has a guard and the bank doesn't.

That's funny. There's a ring around here that were going under parked cars and removing the catalytic converters right in people's driveways. It's crazy!

NukeWorker · #24 (**permalink**) 07-23-2008, 10:50 PM

We are doing some consulting work involving scrapping the Russian Submarine fleet and did you know that the average sub contains 200,000 lbs of copper?
I had to do some head scratching on that one.

wrecknall · #25 (**permalink**) 07-30-2008, 08:31 PM

guy in my neck of the woods died from cutting live powerline with a hacksaw

wrecknall · #26 (**permalink**) 07-30-2008, 08:39 PM

was working in St. Louis about a decade ago and any abandoned building we were demo-n copper was already gone