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This is what I do every day but from the other side, planning and designing prints for fiber aerial, buried jobs. Looking for best locations to place handholes and ped box, conduits, microtrenching. hwy , pvt pole replacements or new pole placement, placing 432F hubs , cables, terminals assigning fiber counts to every unit designing jobs to feed for up to 350 from one hub.
We do it all. Directional bores, main line big plow. Service lines. Small vibration plows. Hand digging ALOT !!!! Love your content. I work 14 hours a day and come home to watch you work lol
15 years experience speaking Dig deeper. For sidewalk bores. Get below the layer of gravel they put down before they pour the concrete. That damn gravel!!!!
Any reason you don't run conduit out of the ground? And wondering why not just mount box, drill hole for fiber through box/foundation to keep fiber internal. This is just set up to get damaged.
You did a great job even though that the fiber kept on breaking you are very Skill professional installer you put a lot of work into this job even in the cold 100%❤
what telecom company is this sir? can i apply as fiber technician? is there vacancy work? i am from philippines.. i am currenty fiber technician here at my country thanks sir
That was extremely impressive!! Here in Australia I have done splicing from EWP's on Poles and "A" frame letters when the Fibre Tray was located high in a Comms Rack. But never on a Pole standing on a Ladder with no support platform. Call me impressed.
Don't listen to haters, good work out there in the cold. I hope you know you're worth. You're a one man expert with the good kit and experience. Go get the money.
Ya it the same way our bury crews do it, unless they feel its too much to shovel. Then they use a machine. So I'm gonna make that money your absolutely right.
When the dude said "You couldn't have planned that any better." I would have said to myself under my breath; you can absolutely plan it better by pre-wiring... I did see coax and ethernet in that comm box outside but I guess clear curve wasn't offered. I digress. ;)
@@naturallyrootedgrowers I do wish it was code to wire the appropriate communications that is currently available in the area for new builds. I just did a job today where a lady had a brand new single floor bungalow on a concrete slab built. They dug up the road to run her electrical services under (she built on a plot of land with no utilities on it) and they ran no conduit for her internet (came off same pole). So I had no choice to go aerial across the road getting it as high as possible (single floor bungalow with maybe a 20ft roof at peak) and of course not a single coax, cat5 or clear curve to be seen. You can only do the best you can do but also making sure you can still make a living doing it.
Do you always strap the ladder to the braid and your harness? Or just because it's windy? I'm new to this career as a 1099, absolutely love everything else except going up the ladder in the city.
Possibly always. I think it's called the Strand, which is optional, but I like knowing my ladder is solid. I will sometimes drive my truck over and put the ladders feet against the tire, so I don't kick out or rachet strap the bottom of the ladder to pole.
Talk about asking for service outage, buying that drop only a few inches below ground. Innerduct should have been buried to the house and every home a fiber drop is to be placed. Bad deal placing it around those plants without protection. If they want to take out that bush to his right, they'll dig down and out where that drop is placed, cutting the drop.
So did you have to dig a channel like that all the way through the yard?? Here in AZ with our bone dry, clay soil that would be a tremendous amount of work :(
Its only that deep and wide for the sidewalk drill bit to flex, the grass burial is just a spade in the ground flipped up. Some of my full youtube videos have the digging.
Man, I have to give you credit, bro messing with that fiber optics the previous technician showed up and said the job cannot be done as a contractor you get the job done exactly what you did .. specially with that aerial feeding with the line through the branches crazy what’s really crazy is they expect to hire people to do these jobs? And all they did is make the job a lot more difficult installing cable and Internet not having a good game plan the companies Spectrum charter
This is funny to me because I am going to have to ladder work tomorrow and splice on the ladder instead of splicing in the bucket because my bucket isn’t a double knuckle. And I was just talking to the guy about it because he’s going to show me how to do it as it’s my first one and then your video pops up where you’re doing work.
Good job making the best of the worst designed fiber plant in the country. I cant imagine that terminal after a few years of techs in and out of it! If they make it so service drops all have to be spliced at least they could've mounted the terminals at the bottom of the pole. Or at least left enough maintenance coil for each tech to drop it to work on it. Good grief I hope they pay you well. I'm a union splicer with a bucket truck and I would've been bitching through that whole job. Thank god you have a good attitude.
I’m getting fiber installed in 2 months. New construction build, I noticed you only put the fiber a couple inches into the ground. I wanted to prep for fiber before concrete and final landscaping is done. Can I use regular Schedule 40 pvc in the ground for future pulling? If so is 1” good?
Ya sched 40 pvc 1" is fine, but if you wanna prep it for the future maybe 1.5" for additional companies possibly in the future, or keep the 1" and just use existing service to pull the next service through. Also use sweeping 90 instead of basic 90 elbow.
