In my case none. Easements or pole contact agreements are in place and they cover repair work.
From: Kurt Fankhauser Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 10:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Melted fiber 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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