That's true. Material cost for the repair was maybe $500. But people
were there splicing for several hours. You also have to have a whole
yard full of crap to be prepared for this. The repair crew (a
contractor) had three trucks and a reel trailer and of course all the
special fiber tools in addition to regular hand tools. The repair
itself is not capital heavy, but having all the stuff to do the repair
IS capital heavy.
Honestly the worst thing about fiber is getting /permission/. Army Corps
of Engineers, State DOT, State Public Service Commission, County
Highway, State DEC, Local Highway Dept, landowners, railroads, incumbent
utilities. Permits, easements, pole attachment licenses. You need the
official blessing from a zillion people. I really think that's the
hardest part. When it's time to actually put up cable that just takes a
couple of phone calls and a checkbook.
What I keep saying is that it doesn't matter how hard it is up front
because you'll get paid for that fiber for a hundred years. I can't say
that about any piece of wireless equipment, except maybe the tower itself.
-Adam
On 11/21/2018 9:42 AM, Trey Scarborough wrote:
Same thing happens with wireless when lightning strikes a tower, but
in this case the fix is more a cost in time than money of broken
equipment...
We had a similar problem the other day lighting hit near a customer
and melted the fiber in the duct through the shielding after it burned
the ground wire out of the building it burned all the way out to the
HH and melted a splice case as well. was lucky to find 6 strands out
of a 144 that were still working.
On 11/20/2018 3:24 PM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote:
Things like this make me happy that I'm doing wireless and not fiber!
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 8:02 PM <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Yep, I had the same thing happen. Tree actually broke the
primary. Primary fell onto the messenger. Burned the lashing
wire in two. Cooked everything real good, but some of the fibers
were still working.
*From:* Adam Moffett
*Sent:* Monday, November 19, 2018 4:42 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* [AFMUG] Melted fiber
Thought I'd share. Apparently a pine tree in the ROW grew into
the primaries. Either the tree caught fire or it was arcing on
the comms, I'm not really sure. I know it's blurry, but all the
plastic is melted off. All that's left is the central strength
member, lashing wire, and bare fiber. This is activeE, so
separate strands for each house. All of them were working. We
only found out about it when the Power co's tree trimmers removed
the tree and one fiber customer went down. The person who took
this picture touched the cable during inspection and 4 more went
down. Not sure what was holding them there, but apparently it's
been in this condition for a number of weeks. Repair is underway.
Burnt Fiber
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