Dull flints suck big time!!!

[Maven]

Thanks Eric!

[Winter Hawk]

I am pretty sure it is from a telephone pole ground strap, what I found was about 6" long.

I'll have to go look in the alley out back.  The last time I checked. every power pole back there had the ground wire cut off about as far up as a man can reach with an axe.  Might be some pieces lying around.   

I've called it in to the power company three times. The first two they came out and put new wires in.  The last time they just left the poles as is.  Things are chancy in Chauncey, Ohio!

~Kees~

[Uncle Russ]

I am pretty sure it is from a telephone pole ground strap, what I found was about 6" long.

I'll have to go look in the alley out back.  The last time I checked. every power pole back there had the ground wire cut off about as far up as a man can reach with an axe.  Might be some pieces lying around.   

I've called it in to the power company three times. The first two they came out and put new wires in.  The last time they just left the poles as is.  Things are chancy in Chauncey, Ohio!

~Kees~

Copper has become the metal of choice when it comes to feeding the need for drugs, at least in my neck of the woods....very sad situation. Absolutely disgusting IMHO.
The large farms and Co Ops in the Columbia Basin are always reporting thousands of dollars in theft from the loss of wiring for the irrigation pumps....hundreds of pounds of copper wire on these big farms.

I find myself hoping they will someday make the mistake of cutting a live, hot wire...therein just might lie the lesson they won't soon forget.

I have a old brass T/C "Barrel Wedge Key Pusher" that I filed a small "nick" out of.
It still works just fine for what it was designed for, as it's also pretty heavy on one end, and that makes it nice replacing a Barrel Wedge, as all my "Keys" or Bbl Wedges are just too tight fitting to push back in using your thumb, it is also much easier on your hunting knife handles too, as that is what I used to do...... plus, it makes a super edge chaser on flints with absolutely no effort, or any great skills needed to get the job done....and it does it real quick.

It took half a dozen tries to get this picture where you can see it, but finally, after laying the tool on a  handkerchief, I think you can figure out what I'm talking about.



Uncle Russ...

[Bigsmoke]

A friend of mine in the San Joaquin Valley in central California reported to me that many of the signals metering traffic onto various freeways in Fresno did not work, because of all the copper wire connecting them to the system had been stolen.  It seems that it has all been replaced lately.  Can you imagine?
Some things just seem to be too big a temptation to some people.
Sad state of affairs, eh?
John

[Winter Hawk]

What really frosts me is that those ground wires are there to protect the linemen when they work up the poles.  If the grounds are gone their lives are at stake.  I think that AEP may have their people attach a ground wire at the time they work on a pole, then remove it when they leave.  As you said, it's a sorry state of affairs!  Even our former sheriff was convicted of selling wire which had been confiscated.

~Kees~

[rollingb]

Here the electric company replaces power poles after the poles have been broken by storms and gives the land owner the old broken/damaged poles.
I have 8 or 9 such poles that were replaced on my property and they still have the old copper ground wires attached,.... anybody needing a piece of copper wire to make a pressure flaker can give me a holler (they work great ).