Unless that made made crack is sealed and it is a northern climate, water will enter in the winter and freeze and the freeze/thaw cycle will destroy the road in that area.
This process is called micro trenching for a reason, not meant to be more than a few inches deep so I'm not sure why so many comments saying it needs to be several feet deep. This is likely in the south as well. Is it the best method? No, in some areas, and yes in others. We have done a good amount of this, but we mostly cut concrete over bridges with walkways, down public walks, parking lots, or along the roadside edge where blocking traffic and major property tear out isn't an option. We also use hot polymer resin based infill and color match in many cases, along with insulating sand in some projects with wider cuts or rough base. Sometimes the customer just wants asphalt fill, so we give it to them similar to this. In this case, it's clearly city work and done at the lowest attention to detail. I didn't see an inspection, no insulating sand, dyer markers, etc. We would have put a bright orange dyed fill a few inches above the conduit so when resurfacing happens they see the color if they get too deep. When we cross streets we find out what the cities resurfacing depth is, usually 2-4 inches max so 6 inch depth isn't going to get touched. Obviously a full road removal is going to rip it up. Despite a sub par job, that fiber will last a long time.
Im with most of these people in the comments. This video was interesting but as someone who did this work for three years with a plow and jt20 directional drill, this was hard to watch. Thanks for the upload anyways and watch out for the rainbow tree roots.
As per usual, the comments are epic.... lot of know it all talking about things they know nothing about, if you read the title it should not surprise anyone, it's google, they can do whatever they want. statutes, rules, regulations and policy go out the window.
Billion dollar company opts for the cheapest installation along with the destruction of public property. Every other utility service would have to bore under the road. NOT GOOGLE! We bribed your officials and we can now do what we want. EVEN BETTER! We did this job so cheap, than when if fails because it's so shallow, we're allowed to do it again. What's even better is ultimately the people of Huntsville are the ones who will pay in more ways than one with this shoddy install. They could have bored under the road and Google would still have made more money than they knew what to do with it.
Six people on the job, only two doing the bulk of the work. A third dude finally picks up a shovel after like ten minutes and does like 30 seconds of work. Living up to the stereotype.
yup You drive by any municipal construction project and its the same Private projects are a diff story, but anything done at state, or local govt is absolute trash, and you notice there are always wasting money! They will spend money just to spend it because they wint get thst state funding next yr if they dont spend it they prob hire extra people just to spend money
Cut the cable too short. How is anyone going to tie in? Or was just that just a hollow tube for the fiber to go into? Should have put a sealer over everything. Snow will melt, freeze and expand and create the need to repair the road.
Micro trenching is done as a faster more inexpensive way to run fiber to customers . If the road is repaved, or planning to be replaced they would end up running it in con. Micro trenching is good for areas that permitting and directional boring are not practical. This is a quick, cheap, easy way to get fiber internet without the overhead
This looks like an abortion. I've installed fiber and you always need slack at the end to polish and terminate the ends. Even if the was pre-polished and terminated, it looks like the installer cut the ends off with a knife. Possibly they will insert fiber through the tubing after everything is done. What does everyone else think?
Billion dollar company opts for the cheapest installation along with the destruction of public property. Every other utility service would have to bore under the road. NOT GOOGLE! We bribed your officials and we can now do what we want. EVEN BETTER! We did this job so cheap, than when if fails because it's so shallow, we're allowed to do it again. What's even better is ultimately the people of Huntsville are the ones who will pay in more ways than one with this shoddy install. They could have bored under the road and Google would still have made more money than they knew what to do with it. This just pisses me off.
Due weisse Mittelschicht wird neu mit Google verdrahtet, Afroamerikaner schlitzen die Strasse auf, druecken den Glasdraht in die Ritze, keine Zuschauer, alle sitzen gebannt hinter den Gardinen......warten auf Godot (Google)............. Gruesse/Greetings...
This has to be the most ghetto shit I've ever seen. There's no way that small of a cutting wheel made it all the way through that high back curb. So now if that curb ever has to be replaced, guess what, there's fiber embedded inside of it.
So what happens to the fibre in the road when it is ready to be milled and repaved. Is the fiber removed before milling, or it gets chewed up by the road mill?
Depending upon your city, county and state codes. All fiber underground cables should be anywhere between 36 to 42 inches deep. Depending upon the underground utilities. This that you see will likely only last as long as the road. Is not milled up to be replaced by a new road.
Wow... That's some seriously lazy, crappy installation. No wonder Google Fiber has so many issues with their lines coming back up to the surface. I've heard horror stories but never seen it. This is NOT the way to install fiber, not even remotely close.
