this is exactly what copper would say
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If not copper, why copper shaped?
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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.
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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
It's really that valuable, the bulk prices I've found on Alibaba are around $25-$30 per KILOMETER!
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That's exactly what a copper thief would say.
Get 'em, boys.
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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.
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They specifically lay fiber in rural areas, cuz it’s federally subsidized
They lay it in rural areas because it's cheaper to maintain and requires less permiting compared to city installation where there are more buried utilities.
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yup! now everything is operated by, well, me, because i have all the keys
You can buy a set of keys on Amazon that will run almost any piece of equipment found on a construction site for like $15.
https://www.amazon.com/Equipment-Construction-Caterpillar-AT195302-Takeuchi/dp/B0F7LG3FTV
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That is just what someome with a lot of 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
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Wouldnt fiber optic cable be worth more?
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Wouldnt fiber optic cable be worth more?
Yeah, but you wouldn't find a buyer
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Yeah, but you wouldn't find a buyer
Time to start an Internet equipment company.
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either i know where that is or they're all like that
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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.
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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.
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I dunno who is even still stealing copper considering that a lot of yards are asking for proof of ownership before they accept it. Copper-nabbers are opportunistic, and won't take the time to forge an original invoice.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Some people were about to buy a house then on the day of closing, they inspect the house one last time and found all the copper pipes missing lol
So they had to re-negotiate about the purchase price
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Wouldnt fiber optic cable be worth more?
yeah but no buyer
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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
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wait fiber optic is like power lines??
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Wouldnt fiber optic cable be worth more?
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.
