ripping down power line faster
than reconstruction crews can put them up, so they can sell the copper


wrote:
Bull****, overhead lines are AA8000 aluminum/steel alloy, there isn't
any copper in them.

Excuse me, ripping down power lines so they can sell the AA8000
aluminum/steel alloy

DSK

Excuse me, ripping down power lines so they can sell the AA8000
aluminum/steel alloy



wrote:
It has no particular scrap value. "Aluminum" recyclers don't want it.

They will if power companies are buying it up by the trainload to
replace downed power lines.

Is it really this difficult for you to get a point? Would a catcher's
mitt help?

DSK

Around 9/1/2005 10:25 PM, wrote:

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:07:49 -0400, DSK wrote:

wrote:

It has no particular scrap value. "Aluminum" recyclers don't want it.

They will if power companies are buying it up by the trainload to
replace downed power lines.

Is it really this difficult for you to get a point? Would a catcher's
mitt help?

When you are making **** up I have a hard time catching it. The power
company has no use for a piece of wire someone could carry. They work
off of 1000' spools. They are not going to be splicing short pieces
together.

That all depends on how desperate they are for wire...

Which, I believe, was Doug's point.

--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:35:56 -0400, DSK wrote:

wrote:
If there was actually someone stealing wire off their poles thinking
they could sell it, the worst thing the POCO could do is provide that
market.

Agreed, but sometimes "the worst thing" is exactly what happens, often
out of expediency. And it's not just power lines, it's every kind of
part used in our infrastructure that could torn out and resold. That is
exactly what has happened in quite a few places, so far it hasn't
happened in Katrina's wake.

The mere fact that this thread started by talking about "copper" tells
me it is a hoax.

Hoax? I was making a point about how the looting was not quite as bad as
all the shoot-on-sight compassionate conservatives were saying.

DSK

How often must one get shot at before one shoots back, Doug?
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:35:56 -0400, DSK wrote:


Hoax? I was making a point about how the looting was not quite as bad as
all the shoot-on-sight compassionate conservatives were saying.


Finally - a kill 'em all thread!!

Whoo Hoo!!!


Easy Tom...you'll get Nuclear NOYB going!

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 22:36:48 GMT, WaIIy wrote:

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:35:56 -0400, DSK wrote:

wrote:
If there was actually someone stealing wire off their poles thinking
they could sell it, the worst thing the POCO could do is provide that
market.

Agreed, but sometimes "the worst thing" is exactly what happens, often
out of expediency. And it's not just power lines, it's every kind of
part used in our infrastructure that could torn out and resold. That is
exactly what has happened in quite a few places, so far it hasn't
happened in Katrina's wake.

The mere fact that this thread started by talking about "copper" tells
me it is a hoax.

Hoax? I was making a point about how the looting was not quite as bad as
all the shoot-on-sight compassionate conservatives were saying.

DSK

How the hell would you know ?

He spent some time as a nurse getting shot at while attending the sick in a
hospital.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."