| Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 8,862 Spam Hunter | OP Spam Hunter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 8,862 | Looks like removing obsolete copper drops isn't high up on Verizon's "To Do" list...even if the drop hangs low enough that I can jump up and pull down hard on it. Pics
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| | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 3,290 Member | Member Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 3,290 | There is very little copper in drop wire. It's mostly iron, for strength, with a little copper, for transmission. There is a newer version that has two 22G pairs, but it was invented recently, say in the last 25 years, and there is very little of it out there. The real money, if you were to salvage anything, is the billions of cable feet of lead cable with copper conductors, that is buried all over the country. It would probably take as much in labor, equipment, and insurance, to salvage it as there is value in the product. (Until copper goes for $10 a pound...then it would be worth it.) Believe me, I've thought about it a lot, and I know where a lot of it is buried.
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| | | | Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 8,862 Spam Hunter | OP Spam Hunter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 8,862 | This particular cable is high pair count with an armor. Across the street, there are two long pieces dangling from above. One piece is the outside jacket while the other is the metal armor...which had separated from the jacket. If anything, I'd love to cut the intact piece in front of the first anchor point and use it to whack people upside the head when they need it.  I have a couple of pieces of the Rural Drop Wire/Cable mentioned. 
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| | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 6,650 Likes: 3 Admin | Admin Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 6,650 Likes: 3 | If anything, I'd love to cut the intact piece in front of the first anchor point and use it to whack people upside the head when they need it.  If you don't own one you can rent a Sawzall and grab a ladder from your church. | | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 12,310 Likes: 2 Member | Member Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 12,310 Likes: 2 | They did remove it, the part that went across the street. Now it's up to the building owner to remove "his" part.  -Hal
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| | | | Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 8,862 Spam Hunter | OP Spam Hunter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 8,862 | I snapped a few more pictures. I'll upload them later this evening. 
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| | | | Joined: Sep 2018 Posts: 68 Member | Member Joined: Sep 2018 Posts: 68 | The metal is called termplate, spelled that way for some reason. There is actually armored cable that is much thicker and usually just for trying to slow down rodents. | | | | Joined: Sep 2018 Posts: 68 Member | Member Joined: Sep 2018 Posts: 68 | For the third time, ternplate. Thank you samsung | | | | Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 8,862 Spam Hunter | OP Spam Hunter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 8,862 |
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| | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 12,310 Likes: 2 Member | Member Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 12,310 Likes: 2 | Can't tell from the pictures the pair count but there is probably a 200 pair terminal in the utility room of that building.
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