How much copper is actually inside each kind of cable — a sourced, conservative table you can trust, plus a calculator to run your own weights and prices against it.
The scale, the bins, the ID check, the payout — a walkthrough of exactly what happens on your first yard visit, so you show up prepared instead of intimidated.
Short answer: yes, but not for much unless you break it down — and never with water still in it. Here's what's inside, what it pays, and how to run your own numbers.
The difference between #1 and #2 copper is often just a few minutes of cleanup — but it's dollars a pound. Here's exactly how yards grade copper and how to hit the higher tier.
Not all wire is created equal. Learn to identify every common cable on sight — from fat THHN to hair-thin Christmas lights — and know its copper value before you weigh it.
A $2 magnet is the first tool every scrapper should own. Here's what the magnet test tells you, what it doesn't, and how it splits the entire world of scrap into cheap and valuable.