I am discussing purchase of some amount of copper cable with the owner of a recently closed company and its building.
He is okay with me buying any cable that provided service to previously owned heavy machinery, as long as the lights and HVAC etc is not affected.
The twist in the story is that the building has multiple utility service drops and some serve huge panels, with own meters, that ONLY power heavy equipment.
So, my thinking goes, I could take not only the cables after the panels, but also the cable from the service drop to the panel after the transformers, to the weatherheads, after the weatherheads, and the panels themselves.
To take those cables, I would need to disconnect high voltage fuse cutouts with a hot stick.
The owner is okay with that, however I want to make sure that it is legal. And my question is, who owns the service drop low voltage (480v) cables that come out of the pole transformers and go to the meter panel. Is the real owner the building owner, or the utility?
This is generally an up and up deal where the person really owns what he is selling, generally, but I want to double check on the service drop cables. This matter is such that any meter reader would see what happened. So I want to be more sure of what I am doing.
Also, if you want to make comments such as "I heard that electricity
appreciate it if you could refrain from commenting, I wanted to hear from people who actually know something.
Thanks
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