So I guess i had better get off my butt and get the several hundred pounds of scrap wire we have built up down to the recycling plant asap then huh?

Guess so! :D Since if you don't your local gang of kids will do it for you! Stealing copper seems to be a common thing now days!

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Well yeah, at over a buck a pound there's some good coin to be made...

Even when it loses 33%, there is still some good coin to be made!

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Yeah but that's probably around $500 less i'll have to spend on new stuff for the class.

You teach science or shop?

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Shop. The voice and data cabling unit generates a lot of scrap.

Huh??? :D You guys chewing up your wiring on occasion?

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Every six months! Y'see each class (I have two per year) has to do a 48 location cable installation, 1ea Voice, data and video, after demo'ing what the previous class installed. I have them wind the old sections onto reels and use that for the next classes termination training. Once the pieces are two short for that then they go in the bin for recycling.

Tsk. Tell me about it. With the Dems in the White House for the past 8 years and gas prices being what they are due to policies of all description. They should be thrown out on their arses.

Oh. Wait.....

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Don't get any ideas! :D It's illegal!

Do you know construction sites are required to have $15K in insurance to cover thieves of materials? That's crazy.

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Strictly speaking the Democrats only have a majority in the house (53%)

In the Senate the Democrats have 49 and the Republicans have 49 with two independents Senators Sanders and Lieberman.

The federal government makes more in taxes on gas (in all stages of production and distribution) than the oil companies make in profits. I say get rid of the taxes and let the market do the rest. At least then high gas prices will be our own fault.

Only if you're caught.

On an unrelated note: August, where did you say you lived again?
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where i work at if we catch them the least will happen is turn over to the law if i catch them cutting it below the floor im going use their head as a shovel its a pain fixing that,think on oil prices if you look far enough it started with carter

In the telecom industry most companies didn't give a hoot what you did with cable scrap as long as you didn't leave it cluttering up the customer site. Unless a piece was long enough to use for a drop it was pretty much considered trash to everyone except the technician smart enough to toss it in the back of his van instead of the dumpster. Even then it was worth little more than beer and pizza money for the cabling crew.

That all changed a couple years ago when the cost of copper went through the roof and now a pickup truck load of scrap communications cable will net about a thousand bucks if not more.

anymore we don't set the copper out until the day they tap the water main that dont always stop them but its not as bad,ussualy if someone ask for a scrap we give it to them and i use scrap to patch the hole in the wall a 60 ft roll of copper cost us 500 dollars even if they get half of that they hit several houses they made a nice little profit:down: