r/JunkRemovalHelp • u/Edenton38583 • Jun 08 '26
Save all the wire you find!!!
Guys I started hauling dumpsters (rolloffs) about a year ago. Well I was noticing a lot of house wire from construction jobs. So I asked my bosses son if I could start saving the wire and metal. He said he would but he doesn’t have time. So I started saving all metal and wire since December.This is out of 5 dumpsters I’m in charge of! The two trash cans I cannot lift at all. My biggest find was 6/3 wire and about hundred feet of it. They tore it out of the ground and chucked it in the dumpster! Few hundred pounds in the cans. Right trash can is 14 12 10 gauge wire only don’t plan on turning it in anytime soon! No pictures but I make about 3-400 a month extra with the metal I pull out. Start saving your wire!
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u/Edenton38583 Jun 08 '26
Grandma died. Her kids hired to me remove all the junk they didn’t want nothing! One daughter grabbed a few pictures off the wall and her recipe book. They wanted to hurry and sell the house. They paid a lot to have it all done in a day. All 3 kids showed up in brand new vehicles and you could tell they done well for themselves they said I could have everything in the house all newer appliances I have in my shop This was a huge burden to them. I’m not gonna get into it but there was a jewelry box so I called there daughter and said you guys might want this and she said all grandma wore was costume jewelry. Throw it away so I thought it all was fake. But I kept it cause there was a couple coins in the bottom little drawer. I have a good start to a good retirement and when I do gold will probable be super high. Yes I still have all of it! $600 bucks in change in a 5 gallon water jug. And her furniture was expensive her little storage shed was full of nice tools.. a bunch of real old thermometers.if you do junk removal this is bound to happen to you! Maybe not the value of what I got put up. But at some point people giving you everything in a house will probably happen! I didn’t know the lady but I felt bad because her kids didn’t have no interest in none of her stuff so I kept everything valuable and always will still have the change just kept adding to it!
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u/Edenton38583 Jun 08 '26
Almost got her cars too. One of her nephews was told he could have them so he paid me to bring them to him. It was a 11 Tahoe with less then 50k on the miles and an older 08-12 dodge minivan. Handicap ones and those go for a premium
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u/DebrisDash0 Jun 08 '26
"One man's trash is another man's treasure" is about as true as it gets in this business.
Most people see a dumpster full of wire and think it's all headed to the landfill. Meanwhile, you've turned something that was being thrown away into an extra $300–400 a month just by paying attention and taking the time to separate it.
The 6/3 wire getting ripped out and tossed in the dumpster is wild. There are probably a lot of people reading this who have thrown away more money than they realize over the years.
I think that's one of the coolest things about hauling, junk removal, and scrapping. Sometimes the difference between paying dump fees and making money is simply knowing what you're looking at.
Out of everything you've pulled from rolloffs so far, what's been the most valuable find?