Old steel logging cables

Cut it into three foot sections and you can get away with prepared heavy melt for it. The problem is there are three different types of cable. 1 regular cable easy to cut through 2 cable with a piece of rope or plastic running through it 3 cable that unwinds itself while you are cutting it. Which means that as you are cutting it pieces of the braid are coming undone. The third kind is the most dangerous and can whip your arms and legs just make sure you wear protective clothing. Cable in a pile when you are cutting is also very unpredictable in which way it may or may not fall once its cut it . It can unwind and slap you with a piece of it. Some yards will accept it and some won't just ask for an unprepared price and ask what you would have to do to have them accept it as prepared heavy melt three foot. You just have to gamble and find out if its worth your doing it or not. No one has ever made money wondering if they can do anything. Its always trial and error. I also have no idea where the cable is? how many pounds it is per foot? How easily accessible the area is? You also might want to ask permission to most people don't appreciate theft unless you are stealing garbage.

This cable is actually on public property (federal land).

I already did that. It's on federal BLM land and the local office said they didn't care if I took it. I told them I would pick up any other random trash I came across as well.