Searching with Google, I'm guessing what I saw was an Altec DB37 "backyard digger/derrick".
I see a used DB35 on eBay for only $22,500. Such a deal. -----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Monday, December 3, 2018 5:56 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Splicing on a pole off road Doesn't really help you, but I recently saw AT&T with this amazing tracked vehicle for setting poles along the property line between 2 suburban houses. A lot of their phone lines in our suburb are run that way instead of on the poles in the parkway where the electric wires and cable TV are. I don't know why it was done this way, probably some historical thing. But this vehicle they had was very narrow but also quite sturdy. Like you took a full blown utility company pole setting truck and crossed it with one of those little Toro tractor things. I should have taken a picture with my phone (I was out walking the canine). -----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, December 3, 2018 3:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] Splicing on a pole off road I'm looking at some rural places where for some reason the power company chose to run their pole line about 100 yards off the road behind the houses. I cannot drive a bucket truck to some of these places. Sometimes you'd be crushing a corn field to get there or other times it's brushy and untamed and you couldn't drive anything less than a forestry mulcher through it. How do you equip someone for fusion splicing out in the bush like that? If we build on this route, we'll have to be able to splice out there at some point. Do you clear a space on the ground and set up a tent or do you climb the pole and set up an aerial tent and lash a work table to the pole? -Adam -- 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
