At tower sites, they will cut out 4" of #10 ground wire if it's there. I have seen many (100+) grounds that they
have done it to at the same site. With what they got, you could put it all in a 3 gallon bucket. With paint all over it,
they would have got junk price for it. It costs several thousand dollars to replace and cad weld it all back together,
only to lose it again in a month or two.
Just to get to the wiring, I have seen large cabinets torn open time after time, just to find out it's all aluminum inside.
The amount of effort required, it would be a lot less to get a job and work a couple hours.
They opened up a couple fiber pedestals and cut the fiber on both ends, pulled over a quarter mile out. I would have loved to
be a fly on the wall when they took it to the salvage place to cash it in.