EddieWalker
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Some of you may remember a thread that I did a few years ago about a barn that I built from two storage containers. http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/33401-my-container-barn.html
Then a few years ago, I sold it to the current owner. He and his wife lived in it for a few years, but have just finished building a new home at the other end of their land.
This morning he calls me and asks if I've seen anybody at the containber barn? Nope. He said that somebody took the electrical lines from the meter to the barn. This was kind of hard to believe since I put that line in there and know how heavy it is and how deep it was.
They parked their truck outside of his gate, but down the road a little ways. Then they came through the trees with a cable that they attached to the copper wire after cutting it from the meter. If I remember correctly, it had two lines of 000 Copper and one line of 00 Copper. The rolls were 500 feet long and I used pretty close to all of it.
They also cut the locks off the containers and broke off the lock on the door to the barn. He had all sorts of good stuff in there that we both figure a thief would want and would be allot easier to take then the wire buried in the ground. They didn't take anything, just the wire. It looks like their only reason to break into the barn was to cut the wire at the panel.
They drug the wire out of the conduit with the cable that was attached to the truck parked out on the road. The wire did allot of damage to the trees on it's way out to the road. They then dragged the wire a mile down the road, taking out several mail boxes, then then turned down a side road still causing all sorts of damage. 450 plus feet of wire that big is very heavy and as we've learned, quite destructive when dragged far enough!!!
He found where they stoped to roll up the wire and then drove off.
Replacement cost for that much copper is in the $3,000 range. Aluminum is $800. He's not a happy camper and of course, we're kind of freaked out here too. Luckily we live here full time, plus the wire to our home is aluminum. With the work he had done building his home and the subs that he had in there, plus he hires day labor all the time, it's anybodies guess who it might have been. We both think it's odd that somebody driving by would think that the meter 300 feet behind the gate would have copper wire going up the hill to a barn that is invisable to anybody until you get right to it.
Weird.
Eddie
Then a few years ago, I sold it to the current owner. He and his wife lived in it for a few years, but have just finished building a new home at the other end of their land.
This morning he calls me and asks if I've seen anybody at the containber barn? Nope. He said that somebody took the electrical lines from the meter to the barn. This was kind of hard to believe since I put that line in there and know how heavy it is and how deep it was.
They parked their truck outside of his gate, but down the road a little ways. Then they came through the trees with a cable that they attached to the copper wire after cutting it from the meter. If I remember correctly, it had two lines of 000 Copper and one line of 00 Copper. The rolls were 500 feet long and I used pretty close to all of it.
They also cut the locks off the containers and broke off the lock on the door to the barn. He had all sorts of good stuff in there that we both figure a thief would want and would be allot easier to take then the wire buried in the ground. They didn't take anything, just the wire. It looks like their only reason to break into the barn was to cut the wire at the panel.
They drug the wire out of the conduit with the cable that was attached to the truck parked out on the road. The wire did allot of damage to the trees on it's way out to the road. They then dragged the wire a mile down the road, taking out several mail boxes, then then turned down a side road still causing all sorts of damage. 450 plus feet of wire that big is very heavy and as we've learned, quite destructive when dragged far enough!!!
He found where they stoped to roll up the wire and then drove off.
Replacement cost for that much copper is in the $3,000 range. Aluminum is $800. He's not a happy camper and of course, we're kind of freaked out here too. Luckily we live here full time, plus the wire to our home is aluminum. With the work he had done building his home and the subs that he had in there, plus he hires day labor all the time, it's anybodies guess who it might have been. We both think it's odd that somebody driving by would think that the meter 300 feet behind the gate would have copper wire going up the hill to a barn that is invisable to anybody until you get right to it.
Weird.
Eddie
