Posted by mkirsch on March 29, 2011 at 13:39:45 from (64.80.110.74):
In Reply to: scrape yards posted by BSpauld on March 29, 2011 at 12:37:50:
It's a pretty big challenge to steal an entire tractor for scrap. You need a big truck with a winch, and quite a bit of time to get the tractor up on the truck without being discovered.
That's a lot of up-front money for a limited high-risk payout. I can't imagine it's very common right now.
Oh, I've read about scrappers raiding abandoned farms, but most farms are not abandoned and so remote that nobody's ever around.
Copper is a much easier target. You're concealed in the basement of a house, and it takes a lot less weight to equal a worthwhile payout. A couple hundred pounds of scrap steel is worth maybe a pack of smokes, while the same amount of copper will buy a couple weeks worth of groceries.
Plus, a big truck with a stolen tractor on it looks like a big truck with a stolen tractor on it. A car full of stolen copper looks like a car...
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