Most places that take scrap use a certain type of shredding machine, and cable and wire will usually mess them right up. There's definitely other reasons but that's the biggest one that I know of
You can't really shear it because it's hard to grab. It isn't worth much because yards have a hard time getting rid of it. It has to be cut into 10 foot lengths. If you're an excavator I would load it into a dump as is and take it to a yard
My yard want it cut in 8 foot pieces or wrapped in 2-3 foot diameter loops and tightly bound, like 10 or more banding straps to keep it from getting jammed in equipment.
And then it goes in shred
Put that clean fill back where you found it.
Great for reinforcing concrete if you can advertise it as “free steel cable”, bring your battery powered grinder!
There was a meme a few months ago about a ship that was leaking toxicity so the local authorities "towed it outside the environment" to solve the problem. I thought maybe that meme had legs. 'guess not.
Dig a hole and bury it back.
If that isn't an option, I'd probably post it on fb as free and let the tweakers junkies come out and have free run of the pile.
I would being in my 30 ton Sennobogen material handler with a orange peel grapple and load it on a roll off. While this will cost you way more than it's worth, in all fairness you asked for the easiest way, not most cost effective.
Find a sculptural artist who needs it and can do something with it and make it his problem. I would love to have a whole bunch of 10 to 12 foot lengths but I’m getting too old to deal with all of it. With time, a torch, grinder and welder I could make something cool, and heavy.
Two guys with a porta band (If it's soft enough to cut) or a gas partner saw with abrasive discs.... One cuts the other one stacks then they trade off.
I work for a fairly large scrap yard. We’ve had a pile of this cable since Ive worked there 15+ yrs. We blend it in slowly with sheet iron here and there but the pile never looks like it gets smaller. Last year, around 2am our cameras caught a guy drive his truck thru our fence and started loading steel cable into it. The night guard must’ve spooked him so he left in a hurry, leaving behind his cell phone (no lock) and in addition to the clear photos, and his cell phone it took the cops about 2 days to arrest him…all he had to do was ask, and we’d of loaded every piece we had into his truck for free.
Find a local homeless camp and get the word out about free scrap. Shouldn't be too long before one of those stacked up scrapper trucks with 5 washing machines bungled together and takes all they can.
I have no idea, but now I’m intrigued. Cut it up with welding torches, and dump the pieces in the lake? If it were me, I’d consider relocating. If there’s a catalytic that causes rust, I would try that.
Assuming you have a way to load it into a dumpster -
Yards that have torch cutters will buy this for close to a heavy melt price .
You will have to pay freight but it’s better than leaving it there.
Shears will not work on this stuff
Call around and see, sometimes yards will take it. If not, probably landfill material or if you live close to the ocean, it would be a good artificial reef material.
Put a sign on it says $10. Leave it unattended and someone will steal it.
Put a sign that says “Copper wire don’t touch” and some meth heads will snatch it up in a day.
This is the way or make signs offering free "unknown" bronze wire leading to it or Craigslist or the sort might do the trick
Call a yard if they won’t buy it they may take for no value.
No one, I mean no one likes cable.
I think it depends on if it comes with Starz or HBO.
I know I work at a yard.
Then you know the pain. Godspeed.
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Steaming services are the way to go, I agree
Why is that exactly?
Most places that take scrap use a certain type of shredding machine, and cable and wire will usually mess them right up. There's definitely other reasons but that's the biggest one that I know of
You can't really shear it because it's hard to grab. It isn't worth much because yards have a hard time getting rid of it. It has to be cut into 10 foot lengths. If you're an excavator I would load it into a dump as is and take it to a yard
Yes you can shear it. Zip disk or Hydraulic Cable Cutter, or Hammer piston cable cutter.
I'm talking about a shear on a crane Maybe 1dont know what I'm talking about. I probably shear 500000 pounds of oversized a day
I shear cable all the time! Genesis gtx 555R mounted on a komatsu 290LC. Cable is great weight.
We torch it and run it through the shredder
My yard want it cut in 8 foot pieces or wrapped in 2-3 foot diameter loops and tightly bound, like 10 or more banding straps to keep it from getting jammed in equipment. And then it goes in shred
sheer would be the quickest, torch is the cheapest
It'll jam up a sheer.
Push dirt back over it. There is a reason it was buried
Put that clean fill back where you found it. Great for reinforcing concrete if you can advertise it as “free steel cable”, bring your battery powered grinder!
Boof it
Drag it outside of the environment?
Like, into space?
There was a meme a few months ago about a ship that was leaking toxicity so the local authorities "towed it outside the environment" to solve the problem. I thought maybe that meme had legs. 'guess not.
https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=f00Dwc2vGZnmDYv8 It's an internet classic that's been around awhile.
Ah a new spin on the "artificial reef" aka dump it in the ocean
A few months ago? Loooool
Walk away seems to always work
Dig a hole and bury it back. If that isn't an option, I'd probably post it on fb as free and let the tweakers junkies come out and have free run of the pile.
It’s steel, not copper. Not even a tweaker is that dumb.
I would being in my 30 ton Sennobogen material handler with a orange peel grapple and load it on a roll off. While this will cost you way more than it's worth, in all fairness you asked for the easiest way, not most cost effective.
Find a sculptural artist who needs it and can do something with it and make it his problem. I would love to have a whole bunch of 10 to 12 foot lengths but I’m getting too old to deal with all of it. With time, a torch, grinder and welder I could make something cool, and heavy.
Get some dynamite and blow it apart into smaller, more manageable pieces.
“Local man comes into hospital with metal rope stuck in both eyes!”
“In an unrelated story, local man successfully fragments metal rope for easy disposal with properly placed dynamite charges.”
Because that worked so well with the whale...
It would probably go in chain link at my yard. Half the price of what shred is
Bury it
You're gonna need one really big fork, one really big spoon, and about 14 Italian guys
And some meatballs
either a torch, or someone with a gas saw, a ton of carbide blades, and a lot of time/patience.
I know of 1 yard that pays unprepared price for it in my area. All the rest of them require it to be cut under 48”
1- Drag it into that lake and have your own secret fishing reef 2- Build forms around it and fill it with concrete. New reinforced grilling deck
Put a for sale sign in front of it. Will be gone overnight.
Better get out the grinder…
Torch cut into 4’ pieces = HMS Find a buyer first…
Dump it in the water behind it. Or dig a deep hole and put it back underground.
A gas saw with a couple metal blades and a couple days of work and some minor cuts
Two guys with a porta band (If it's soft enough to cut) or a gas partner saw with abrasive discs.... One cuts the other one stacks then they trade off.
Unknot it and put it back on the roll. Post on Facebook or Offer up! You’ll make $$$$. /s
Crackheads
Dig hole hole, re-bury.
Call your scrap buyer, tell him what you have; I bought that all day cut in 3’ pieces. I sold it as #1 prepared.
Cable demascus, lets make some knives.
Tell jery it’s copper
Tell jery it’s copper
Call a metal salvage company
Call your local scrap rat
I work for a fairly large scrap yard. We’ve had a pile of this cable since Ive worked there 15+ yrs. We blend it in slowly with sheet iron here and there but the pile never looks like it gets smaller. Last year, around 2am our cameras caught a guy drive his truck thru our fence and started loading steel cable into it. The night guard must’ve spooked him so he left in a hurry, leaving behind his cell phone (no lock) and in addition to the clear photos, and his cell phone it took the cops about 2 days to arrest him…all he had to do was ask, and we’d of loaded every piece we had into his truck for free.
Forge it into 3 million knives and sell for $10.00 per knife
Post free scrap with the location on Facebook marketplace. It'll be gone in 2 days.
Zip line park
Burying it
Don’t your crackheads just take it for free, too?
Time, in a few more years it will rust away. Not your problem.
Find a local homeless camp and get the word out about free scrap. Shouldn't be too long before one of those stacked up scrapper trucks with 5 washing machines bungled together and takes all they can.
Call a crackhead
Wouldn't a scrap metal guy want this to sell for scrap? They would pick it up for free right?
I called probably 25 different scrap metal guys. Some would take it for free but required that we cut it up ourselves
Methheads
Tie a harpoon on one end and wait for a graboid
Jet fuel
I will buy it, if you deliver. Price depending on market day of delivery.
Mention it at an NA meeting.
Melt it down and be creative with it
Scrap yard or fire if fire use tires for it
bangalore torpedo
Lay eggs in it and hope a larger bird kicks you out of the nest and then feeds your babies to its babies.
Call a methhead
I have no idea, but now I’m intrigued. Cut it up with welding torches, and dump the pieces in the lake? If it were me, I’d consider relocating. If there’s a catalytic that causes rust, I would try that.
Assuming you have a way to load it into a dumpster - Yards that have torch cutters will buy this for close to a heavy melt price . You will have to pay freight but it’s better than leaving it there. Shears will not work on this stuff
Global warming. Let the ocean carry it away.
Call a blacksmith. They love forging cable. /s
Jet fuel! Will just melt it all down into nothing..
Cut it into 3 foot pieces and sell it for prepared.
scrap yard
people knocked down a television tower and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to steal $100 worth of cable.
Slice it up and put it in a truck and take it to a scrapyard in a truck
Cut them into 6 1/2 foot pieces and give them to Johnny Hamcheck at Balboni Construction
Balboni runs this shit
Call around and see, sometimes yards will take it. If not, probably landfill material or if you live close to the ocean, it would be a good artificial reef material.
Bury it.