Re: Dispose of pole pig on Long Island?

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Original poster: "Neal Namowicz" <mr_neal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I don't know what your trash pick-up situation is in your area, but 
around us there are countless "junkers" in their beat-up old pickups 
scouring the alleys and neighborhoods for anything metal that is 
being thrown out. When I was cleaning out my mother's garage prior to 
her moving (my father died 25 years earlier and he was a bit of a 
"collector". And it's hereditary, but I digress) I would put metal 
junk in the alley and someone would show up seeming within minutes to 
grab it. Hardly a scrap of anything metal ever made it to the 
dumpster I had to rent.

Neal.


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Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: Dispose of pole pig on Long Island?


> Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> At 10:29 PM 8/23/2006, you wrote:
> > Original poster: Charles Brush <cfbrush@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a 14.4kV double bushing pole pig I fried several years ago 
> > and I am wondering how to get rid of it.  It came from T&R and is 
> > like new outside...it just is internally shorted.  I have the 
> > non-PCB certificate for it and am just wondering how you get rid of 
> > something like this.  I don't have a pickup truck or anything to 
> > move it with. Any thoughts?
>
> Around here, you get one free "big trash" pickup per year (sofas, 
> appliances, etc.).. All you have to do is get it out to the curb, 
> and they take it from there. Your transformer's not hazardous 
> material, just big, oily, and heavy.
>
> Actually, given the current scrap prices for copper, if it has any 
> copper in it, you might find someone to take it for the scrap value.