heavy ferrous insulated wire

[chrisblackcat]

Found an old spool of heavy wire in the woods. It appears to be communication cable (lots of colored copper wires in heavy black insulation) with ferrous metal in thinner heavy insulation attached to the insulated communication cable. The magnet sticks to it. It is shiny, and was wondering what it could be. I know a picture would be helpful but I'm not able to do that quite yet.



Thanks scrappers.

[chrisblackcat]

I can pull the insulated ferrous cable from the thicker communication insulated cable with a knife while pulling it taunt, thus separating the 2 heavy black insulated coverings.

[chrisblackcat]

It looks like it was either made to run high in the air or maybe underground.

[sjones99]

Sounds like telephone cable...right now if it has jelly inside of it it`s worth about 1.50 a lb. No jelly 2.00!!

[chrisblackcat]

Sounds like telephone cable...right now if it has jelly inside of it it`s worth about 1.50 a lb. No jelly 2.00!!

That is good to know. That would be without that smaller, although heavy insulated ferrous wire attached to the heavier insulated telephone cable, correct?

No jelly that I could notice.

[sjones99]

If it has a ferrous insulated attached to it thats whats called figure 8 and price on that varies due to size of wire and steel.

[Mick]

Does it look like this?

http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/...perwire001.jpg

[parrothead]

If it has a ferrous insulated attached to it thats whats called figure 8 and price on that varies due to size of wire and steel.

Also called messenger cable. The steel cable takes the brunt and provides the strength to hang it from the pole to the house. The communication cable would not stand up to it alone.

You will certainly want to seperate the 2 and they should seperate very easily.

Lots of wires? maybe 25 pair or better? I would be curious as to what one foot of it weighs.

[parrothead]

Does it look like this? this picture is only a 6 pair though.

http://www.phonegeeks.com/sel4pairfiga.html

[chrisblackcat]

Does it look like this? this picture is only a 6 pair though.

http://www.phonegeeks.com/sel4pairfiga.html

yes, exactly. I pulled off the ferrous portion of it and threw it in with my light iron today. I have not done anything with the copper part yet. I usually let that stuff stock pile up before I bring in my non ferrous metals. It looks like the heavy black insulation is so hard/strong that it will be a scrap metalscrap metalscrap metalscrap metalscrap metal to strip, so I most likely will not.

[chrisblackcat]

I will cut a foot of the full cable, without the ferrous cable, and post the weight and the exact number of colored insulated copper wires. This looks like it was left in the woods for years. Very dirty and buried within leaves and dirt. Lucky find indeed.

[chrisblackcat]

Does it look like this?

http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/...perwire001.jpg

No, it looks like the photo posted by parrothead.

[chrisblackcat]

Thanks everyone for showing support.

[redcrossnj]

its mostly like telephone wire or other form , i find it all the time , the telephone guys just dump or leave it on the road , not worth there time to strip , but i got all the time