NY DOT says we do, but they're the only ones.
They say to file a permit for repairs every year and give it a date
range saying the work can take place over the whole year.
In fact NY DOT is the biggest pain in the ass about everything under the
sun. Railroads are the only thing worse than NY DOT.
On 11/21/2018 12:13 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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.
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
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
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
