[TheForge] Price of Copper

[Jerry Smith]

Any molten body parts?

--- Robert J Hill <wskewinu at mac.com> wrote:

> Several months ago someone used a garden clipper to
> cut into a 200 amp 
> service at the dock I worked at.  The security
> video, from almost 150 
> feet away, showed an amazing flash and falling
> molten stuff.  There 
> were footprints coming in during low tide but
> nothing indicating they 
> left.  Anything for a buck.
> Rob
> On Apr 23, 2007, at 15:46, xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:
> 
> Jerry Smith wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I thought scrap copper was like a buck something a
> > pound, today I found out it's like $2.50 a pound.
> > We had somebody in the middle of the night drop a
> span
> > of telephone trunk, and actually did it very
> > professionally. From this mills people were
> walking
> > out with rolls of copper wire and other stuff.
> >
> > So why is copper prices going thru the roof? I
> > actually make stuff out of copper as part of my
> work.
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> Why -- China.   Around here they are stripping it
> out of light poles on 
> the interstate with a truck and a chain.   They are
> cutting the 
> evaperator lines off of your ac unit, and now even
> stealing the AC 
> compressor as well.  I have an empty rental property
> with a tractor 
> behind it.  They cut the battery cables off the
> tractor and the power 
> lines running to the outbuildings, the lines to the
> Airconditioner and 
> would have had that too if the neighbor hadn't
> walked up.    We have 
> had a few homes in the country stripped of their
> aluminum siding over a 
> weekend.   One church has replaced their AC units
> three times.   I work 
> in the power industry and it is getting  bad there
> as  well.   Damn 
> near impossible to find a utility pole with an
> intact grounding strap 
> in downtown.  They are also stealing the aluminum
> covers off the 
> lighting standards faster than they can be replaced.
>  At one utility, 
> thieves broke into a substation and stole the
> grounding mat.   About 
> once a month we hear in the industry about someone
> frying themselves on 
> a 12kv line or higher trying to steal something.   I
> just have to pop a 
> beer and celebrate every time.   If all that weren't
> smarmy enough, we 
> had a husband and wife team stealing vases and
> bronze plaques from 
> several local cemeteries until a groundsman at one
> cemetery caught them 
> and blocked their exit.   Their car was full of
> purloined cemetery 
> furniture.  Dallas has a law now that you have to
> leave a thumbprint 
> and a license and wait to get your money for scrap
> copper.  So they 
> have to drive an extra thirty minutes to get rid of
> it around here.   
> Eventually they will have to take the same steps
> they did in the 
> thirties to protect railway rail.
> Charles
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