Cable thieves

One for LR here, I notice they use that blue cord to pull cables through pipes, When the theives nick the cable, how do they get the new one back in, do they still use ferrets with lines attached, then use the line to pull the cable through ?, Been bothering me all day,

They have a spare line down all the time as far as I am aware.

Underdog wrote:One for LR here, I notice they use that blue cord to pull cables through pipes, When the theives nick the cable, how do they get the new one back in, do they still use ferrets with lines attached, then use the line to pull the cable through ?, Been bothering me all day,

HaHa! Nope, they have vehicles with rodding machines with 300m of continuous rods on a big wheel inside a lorry which they shove up the duct, or they can do it by hand rods, these are 3m long and similar to drain rods which are screwed together and then there is a thing called a duct motor which consists of two air bags connected by a piston rod. One bag inflates and "grabs" the duct then the deflated bag creeps up to it by the action of the piston. Deflated bag then inflates, grabs duct, other bag deflates and piston extends and so and so forth...clever innit. For new duct, the contractors use the old trick of tying a length of rope to a bundle of rags then use an air compressor to blast it up the duct.
Once the rods reaches the next manhole they just tie a drawrope on to it and pull it back. (The duct motor pulls it's own rope behind it).

Very clever, I had a new gas pipe put in, i have a block paved driveway, I had to be elsewhere
on the day, dreading the worst when i got home, No, all was normal, I said to janet how long was they here, 2 hours max she said, Eh ?, I'm talking 30mtr's Magic

How much pikey charge for that paving then?

ThIt wasn't them, they wouldn't have taken only 2 hours

Perfectspecimen wrote:How much pikey charge for that paving then?

Ha Ha, it wasnt pikeys, 30mtr by 10mtr, 15 years ago, i know its a pain in the arse
Trying to keep it clean,

It must have been a rush job you should have had 1inch of tarmac on top to make it a proper long lasting surface and it don't show oil drips.

innit wrote:
It must have been a rush job you should have had 1inch of tarmac on top to make it a proper long lasting surface and it don't show oil drips.

My youngest lad doe's groundwork, he must have had most of it up 3 times, When he is skint, i say do that spot, and i pay him, Would i have it again NO, crap it is

Thats a building plot Reg, park in the street.

Perfectspecimen wrote:Thats a building plot Reg, park in the street.

He canot find space on the street the cars parked there all have "for sale" notices on.

The thought crossed my mind, I need the room though, sometimes i have 10 cars here, then i have 2 more drives i can fill, plus the nieghbours are great, i can use theres as an overflow, Dont know how i get away with it sometimes, Like musical cars though, always the wrong one at the back,

Underdog wrote:The thought crossed my mind, I need the room though, sometimes i have 10 cars here, then i have 2 more drives i can fill, plus the nieghbours are great, i can use theres as an overflow, Dont know how i get away with it sometimes, Like musical cars though, always the wrong one at the back,

Innit you are supposed to sell them not bloody collect em.

innit wrote:

Innit you are supposed to sell them not bloody collect em.

Well its not an exact science, What you have isnt what they want always, so you just wait, its all or nothing sometimes, Janet comes home and says, wheres all the cars, Sold, i had a sale, Eh ?, mad it is, What i think will sell wont, then some crap has them fighting over it, i dont know the answer, Still its a living,

Can't park in the street where Reg lives, car will get nicked and end up on his driveway. :Crazy:

underdog wrote:Well its not an exact science, What you have isnt what they want always, so you just wait, its all or nothing sometimes, Janet comes home and says, wheres all the cars, Sold, i had a sale, Eh ?, mad it is, What i think will sell wont, then some crap has them fighting over it, i dont know the answer, Still its a living,

Nearly as good a living as clamping then.

Streets on my cctv, so i will see the bassa's, Dibble calls for a nosy sometimes, cheeky bleeders

Sell em on ebay, no mot 99p start. Like a red rag to a bull.

My pal doe's ebay, I cant be arsed, £100 scrap at the moment up here,

£944 sounds better, hehe..........