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 01-20-2006, 01:57 PM | #1 (permalink) | ||||||||
| Moderator   papa-bear is suffering from a pad thai lunch
Location: @home Rep Power: 8  Gender:  Country:  | BACKHOES VERSUS TELECOM: The backhoe is telecom's single biggest enemy. A new study from the Common Ground Alliance, a U.S. industry group, estimates that in 2004 there were over 675,000 cases of damage to various types of underground facilities: 35% involved backhoes, and 27% affected telecom equipment. ** Another recent report, from the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, says that cable dig-ups caused 57% of U.S. network outages in the past 12 years. The number of outages has been declining, but the number of customers affected and the average length of service interruption have increased. *********************** Dial before you dig! :wink: | ||||||||
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| Senior Member   slagburn has no status.
Location: 3498.51 miles from Tiverton, Ontario (CANADA) Rep Power: 16 Gender:  Country:  | Happened to us a few months ago (there was a post with pictures) some ignorant Mexican with a special fiber seeking backhoe broke one of our conduits and manged to snag the inner-duct and pull about 3 ft of it out destroying the LIU in the phone closet along with taking down service for a day.  The best part of it is that he knew right where the conduit was as he had been digging (and hitting) around it all week. Another part of the problem is some of these cocky backhoe operators, I recently had an electrician tell me that my buried conduits weren't a problem because his backhoe guy can pick up an egg with a backhoe... I explained that I don't want him thinking that anywhere near my conduits. This is why I liked being a microwave / wireless guy.  | ||||||||
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| 01-23-2006, 11:56 AM | #5 (permalink) | ||||||||
| Senior Member slagburn has no status.
Location: 3498.51 miles from Tiverton, Ontario (CANADA) Rep Power: 16 Gender: Country: | That would be one low microwave link... I don't think we're allowed to build them that low due to various feelings about microwaves and the human body. | ||||||||
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| 01-23-2006, 12:05 PM | #6 (permalink) | |||||||||
| Moderator  JulianW is drinking coffee.
Location: 254.45 miles from Tiverton, Devon (ENGLAND) Rep Power: 9 Gender: Country:  | Lots of new jobs at PbxJobs.com! Quote:
). The techies kept wondering why they had intermittent communications especially at the weekends, the answer was that there are more hill-walkers at the weekend than during the week.  | |||||||||
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| 01-23-2006, 12:12 PM | #7 (permalink) | ||||||||
| Senior Member slagburn has no status.
Location: 3498.51 miles from Tiverton, Ontario (CANADA) Rep Power: 16 Gender: Country: | Sounds like one of those temporary things someone forgot about. Happens at times but usually we keep the antennas up nice and high so about the only problems we run into are trees and the occasional building that will get erected in the path. | ||||||||
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| Junior Member  Pirates_Ghost has no status.
Location: The other side of the Lake from work Rep Power: 12  | Quote:
 __________________ You can't wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you - Look, if I went 'round saying I was an Emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!  | |||||||||
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| Senior Member slagburn has no status.
Location: 3498.51 miles from Tiverton, Ontario (CANADA) Rep Power: 16 Gender: Country: | Quote:
The last time I called before I dug they sent some newbie jacka$$ out with a set of outdated plans. Practically had them digging right through my spiffy $70,000 ground. | |||||||||
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