With the price of scrap recently, it has become profitable to clean up fence rows, abandoned machinery in the back of the barnyard, etc. I live on a road that leads to a road, etc, to a scrapyard. seems like daily I'm seeing delapidated pickup trucks hauling loads of real scrapy trash, derelect vehicles and so on. No doubt where they're heading. Sure some of these haulers are probably unemployed, and they're eeking out some living by doing this.
Depending on the honesty of these folks, any scrap not tied down may be victim of theft. We've had several incidents of stealing not only scrap, but viable usable materials. One of the targets has been the wiring on center pivot irrigations systems.
Last year I took a legal load of scrap in. They were pretty careful to identify me, including a fingerprint. I suspect the scrap dealers have to cover their hindsides as well. Would only take a big incident of acquiring stolen property, to get them in a heap of trouble, too.
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