I tried doing that with the cable that fed my old mobile home, which is long gone. I found that the cable broke and I tried pulling it both ways. The run was about 50 feet, but it was down more than 2 feet in very rocky ground.
When I had to replace my main water line, we had to dig through some of the buried, abandoned electrical cable, so I retrieved some more of it. I again tried pulling on the cable with the tractor, but again it just broke.
I don"t know what the pieces of aluminum cable are worth (they were to a 200 amp service), but I don"t think there would be any chance that the rest of the cable would be worth digging up just for the scrap value. I don"t think it is really hurting anything leaving the remaining pieces where they are. I suppose digging up pieces of cable might give a backhoe operator a concern sometime in the future, if they have to dig in that area. But I am not going to worry about it.
Since I buried that first electrical service wire in 1976, I have always put conduit around any underground wiring I put in. I wish I had used conduit that first time, but I was being cheap and really didn"t know better. Live and learn!
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