Postalrevnant
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Hello again all,
I had a few really good finds last night and today, but I did not get a chance to metal detect last night and today. Great when you have good finds and not even detecting eh?
Last night a family member of mine had a flat tire at work. He did not have a jack. He called his son who had a four wheel drive to get to him and he picked me up to take him to the spot. When I got there I noticed a pit filled with old equipment and scaps. My uncle got on the horn and got permission for me to get anything I wanted since it was going to be covered up. What I found was a pile of smaller guage copper wire that I cut and plenty of already cut pieces of it lying around as well. I have a picture of about 1/6 of it stripped so far. All of this came from this place minus the one huge piece of wire in the picture that I found Metal Detecting an old abandoned home in the woods.
In a way this is kinda odd. Coal mines and many other places here are having a problem with peps thieving thier copper. We even had 3 peps die this year trying to steal wire out of transformers that they thought were turned off ** Side note glad the recycler has known me since I was a child, otherwise I would probably be getting a visit from the police in the current climate around here right now. But then again who knows. Since most of these wires are smaller perhaps I would not have any trouble no matter what.** After all that is what is strange. When I get done I will probably have around 60 to 70 lbs of copper wire. Plus I added 5 more pounds of copper pipe not shown in the picture. This pit has been there to see for a while. The items thrown in the pit have been out for a while. Yet peps could have gotten this copper by just asking. In the mean time we have a bunch...and I mean a bunch. Enough to make it on the local news TV and papers more than once this year of thieves stealing copper. They have been stealing large wires of course. They are too lazy to get free copper in smaller sizes I guess. Not enough to just be a thief, you got to be a lazy one and steal things that people really need. And not put in a little bit of work to get a nice little haul for free.
I am at a loss about some of these wires though. IF ANYONE knows how to tell what wires are white copper coated, aluminum, Platinum...etc...would sure love to know how to tell. I also have a picture of one of the white wires. Most might just be aluminum, but who knows. A lot of this equipment was older and most likely expensive way back when it was bought. Nice to know how I could figure out when wire is platinum or not.
Ok this leads to the other great find. IF you have seen some of my posts on "Everything Else" I am starting a small marble collection. I plan to over time try to fill a 5 gallon fish tank with marbles. My daughter loves marbles and shiney rocks. *** BONUS was able to find a rock tumbler set finally today for one of her Christmas presents *** Anyways, I know it takes a long time to get marbles while you are metal detecting. But since I know this is a large task to get that many I will also purchase some at yard sales etc. If they are good different variety that will make the fish tank a unique collection, and obviously if the price is right. Not really collecting valuable marbles, just something pretty for her to enjoy.
My uncle works most nights, so today I went looking for a jack for him at the flea market / swap meet..whatever its called where you come from. On my way back I noticed a guy sitting roadside selling and some jacks. I was able to find a jack for him at a reasonable price. While he was getting some change for me I took a closer look at what he was selling and found this 24 oz. peanut butter jar full of marbles. They are all newer marbles according to him, good part is they are mostly unique and not all the same color etc. Since I bought the jack he just through in the Marbles for free.
Great day and night all in all.
Thanks for the read all,
Postalrevnant
I had a few really good finds last night and today, but I did not get a chance to metal detect last night and today. Great when you have good finds and not even detecting eh?
Last night a family member of mine had a flat tire at work. He did not have a jack. He called his son who had a four wheel drive to get to him and he picked me up to take him to the spot. When I got there I noticed a pit filled with old equipment and scaps. My uncle got on the horn and got permission for me to get anything I wanted since it was going to be covered up. What I found was a pile of smaller guage copper wire that I cut and plenty of already cut pieces of it lying around as well. I have a picture of about 1/6 of it stripped so far. All of this came from this place minus the one huge piece of wire in the picture that I found Metal Detecting an old abandoned home in the woods.
In a way this is kinda odd. Coal mines and many other places here are having a problem with peps thieving thier copper. We even had 3 peps die this year trying to steal wire out of transformers that they thought were turned off ** Side note glad the recycler has known me since I was a child, otherwise I would probably be getting a visit from the police in the current climate around here right now. But then again who knows. Since most of these wires are smaller perhaps I would not have any trouble no matter what.** After all that is what is strange. When I get done I will probably have around 60 to 70 lbs of copper wire. Plus I added 5 more pounds of copper pipe not shown in the picture. This pit has been there to see for a while. The items thrown in the pit have been out for a while. Yet peps could have gotten this copper by just asking. In the mean time we have a bunch...and I mean a bunch. Enough to make it on the local news TV and papers more than once this year of thieves stealing copper. They have been stealing large wires of course. They are too lazy to get free copper in smaller sizes I guess. Not enough to just be a thief, you got to be a lazy one and steal things that people really need. And not put in a little bit of work to get a nice little haul for free.
I am at a loss about some of these wires though. IF ANYONE knows how to tell what wires are white copper coated, aluminum, Platinum...etc...would sure love to know how to tell. I also have a picture of one of the white wires. Most might just be aluminum, but who knows. A lot of this equipment was older and most likely expensive way back when it was bought. Nice to know how I could figure out when wire is platinum or not.
Ok this leads to the other great find. IF you have seen some of my posts on "Everything Else" I am starting a small marble collection. I plan to over time try to fill a 5 gallon fish tank with marbles. My daughter loves marbles and shiney rocks. *** BONUS was able to find a rock tumbler set finally today for one of her Christmas presents *** Anyways, I know it takes a long time to get marbles while you are metal detecting. But since I know this is a large task to get that many I will also purchase some at yard sales etc. If they are good different variety that will make the fish tank a unique collection, and obviously if the price is right. Not really collecting valuable marbles, just something pretty for her to enjoy.
My uncle works most nights, so today I went looking for a jack for him at the flea market / swap meet..whatever its called where you come from. On my way back I noticed a guy sitting roadside selling and some jacks. I was able to find a jack for him at a reasonable price. While he was getting some change for me I took a closer look at what he was selling and found this 24 oz. peanut butter jar full of marbles. They are all newer marbles according to him, good part is they are mostly unique and not all the same color etc. Since I bought the jack he just through in the Marbles for free.
Great day and night all in all.
Thanks for the read all,
Postalrevnant
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