You see that on poles a lot too. Seems like a step ladder would be a good investment for these people. They really need some business coaching on investment vs payback
Our Copper thieves took a long pole with One handle of the bolt cutters taped to them. Tightened the handles to hold them open, went up, pulled a rope like a set of tree loppers.
they stole SPANS of #6 & #8CWC we had left in the air from decades ago.
we haven’t had much of anything stolen since the price of copper came down. That and we use copper clad steel for substation and pole grounds. Had some try, but they give up when they notice it’s steel.
We are training our thieves that it’s useless wire when they go sell it. When we got this in a few years back we took some to the scrapyards in our area and layed it out on the scale. The guy was pricing it for #1 bright. We then explained what it was and told him to put a magnet on it.
We went into his bought bin and found more copper clad steel. He started putting a magnet on everything...
maybe that’s why they leave us alone now and head to the phone towers and solar jobs...