Copper Theft.....
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:10 pm
......is an issue around Albuquerque. We do a lot of these arms to prevent the electrical transformers from being broken into. The thieves will cut the incoming cables at the service entrance to the buildings, and cut the lines at the transformers, tie the cable to a truck or vehicle and drive off with it.
We fab. an arm out of 2"x4"x 11 ga. tubing with a lock mechanism that can't be cut with bolt cutters or a grinder. Of course people like us could get into it if we wanted to but scumbag thieves will usually take the path of least resistance, and hit a transformer with no security. If there are no bollards in the ground, which there usually are, we set some and fab. a hinged arm for access to the doors.
We fab. an arm out of 2"x4"x 11 ga. tubing with a lock mechanism that can't be cut with bolt cutters or a grinder. Of course people like us could get into it if we wanted to but scumbag thieves will usually take the path of least resistance, and hit a transformer with no security. If there are no bollards in the ground, which there usually are, we set some and fab. a hinged arm for access to the doors.