When emergency repairs need to happen how much permission do you need to get form all the above entities you mentioned?
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:22 AM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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. >> >> [image: Burnt Fiber] >> >> ------------------------------ >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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