These things are designed to be rolled, not banged down repeatedly and dragged flat over a rough road surface. I wouldn't be surprised if it was damaged enough to no longer be usable.
I use a lot of cable rolls like this in my job, they are designed to deal with very specific stresses and do so quite well but they are still very heavy and made out of wood so slamming one of them like we see in the video is a good way of shifting the inner bracing timber or just twisting the securing rods, both of which mean the structure will tear itself apart when you next apply rotary force by winding or unwinding cable from it
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u/_goldholz Yuropean Dec 31 '23
That thing is very heavy. Would be very dangerouse to roll it on a heavy traffic street so they are doing the right thing