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this is exactly what copper would say
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Looks like they're burying it. The buried stuff does have a small copper locate wire. Or maybe its aluminum? I don't know. Better check
If not copper, why copper shaped?
How bad is your neighborhood that you have to label cable spools to prevent material theft???
Thieves don't care if it's a nice neighborhood. It happens on building sites everywhere. They don't mind driving a long way.
But how much copper they gotta steal to pay for driving out to it? I need to check the price of copper.
If they were good at math, they wouldn't be thieves.
At one of my prior jobs (Chicos FAS,Ft Myers, FL) a maintenance guy got fired when they caught him stealing cables for copper about 10 years ago.
If it's real copper, they have to tell you. It's in the constitution.
Wouldnt fiber optic cable be worth more? 🤔
Yeah , but you won't find a buyer , the thing with copper and metals is you can easily sell them off in most cases.
No, check ebay if you don't believe me. It's not exactly plentiful, but there are enough contractors with several hundred/thousand feet left over from big jobs who are selling it for wholesale or less. It's not like you can recycle it, and splicing is unreliable without tools that cost as much as a car, so if you've got a partial spool you need to get rid of you'll probably have to sell it at a loss.
are you saying they wouldn't find a buyer?
r/trashy
Sure this will prevent the meth heads from stealing it, but it will attract a much larger and more dangerous predator - the North American Excavator.
I feel like you could real easily just steel that roll and of fiber optic cable and sell it? Like that much of the stuff must be rather valuable. Also they labelled it for you so that you know what it is
Who would you sell it to? The same telecom company? The same company that installs it? Might as well steal the tires off the installation team truck and sell it back to them.
I think turning someone's tires to solid steel would be pretty funny
Curse you, autocorrect!
Bull shit! They don’t lay fiber anywhere that rural and meth looking! It’s copper in disguise! Geet ‘um!
They specifically lay fiber in rural areas, cuz it’s federally subsidized
either i know where that is or they're all like that
Putting my geoguessr to the test-
For sure US, Pine trees, wood fences, trailers, political sign- David Hogan? cant make it out, not St Augustine grass-maybe paspalum?, Barn/stable implies horses or cows maybe.
Im guessing north-central Florida/south Georgia. Sticking the pin somewhere close to Taylor Florida or right on the border of GA.
Sorry, im not trying to dox just having some fun. :P
People: The surveillance state will eliminate privacy!
Rando on the internet: If you wanted your house to be private you shouldn't have had grass.
wait fiber optic is like power lines??
In some localities fibre optic is strung on the power lines, yes.
In some it is buried.
All you're looking at is the outer protective sheath.
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