[TheForge] Price of Copper

[Robert J Hill]

Who knows?  It went off just a few feet away from them.  Seattle PD 
were going to put some divers in but things were in the third or fourth 
tide cycle so they chalked it up to another dead meth head.  A scrap 
outfit was just shut down here recently.  Couldn't imagine being messed 
up enough to cut a cable than size.
Rob

On Apr 23, 2007, at 23:43, Jerry Smith wrote:

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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