another quick one for you guys, nice and simple showing a transition off the strand and back on. and a power mast attachment. enjoy and thanks for watching! Please Subscribe!
Your actions at height, equipment and speed of action when connecting the cable are respected. Thank you for showing it. In Europe, in cities, everything is underground. But on the country site it is exactly as you showed.
From the UK as a telecoms engineer, i climb 15metre poles the lot.. got an interview for a company ( uk company ) to spread to the US. super excited and hope i get it. nice video mate. thanks for showing us how the US do it!
A tip i learnt along the years, when you place your ladder on a strand like that or midsection, get your hooks on it and leave your ladder short, so when you go up and put weight on it itll bite and have you secure.
Why did i find this interesting? Lol Nice work. You have been at this a long while and know what your doing. I just had fiber installed. Used to be a network guy.
It is too bad we cannot post pictures here. We just had fiber service ran in our neighborhood, and after looking at the trunk line, in two places where they put an expansion loop in the run the loop is that tight that there is a genuine kink in the line. It looks like a kink in a garden hose it is that tight. I am scheduled for my install in a few days so will be interesting to see what the tech says when I point it out to them. Thanks for the great videos too!!
It’s likely your line (light level) with be affected. But also not. Fibre is a lot more resilient than it seems. Definitely sounds like a sloppy install
I work for Bell Technical Solutions in Kitchener, I just moved to structured cabling after doing this for 11 years. Where is this? Great work by the way, we do it a little different but same result.
I’m also an installer, it’s similar but have some diffences on how we do it here (Canada). As commented by jason, we use J hooks from the pole most of the time, we hook it up 12 inches above the network to get to client’s mast. Rule of thumb, we follow the power line anyway. And 12 inches from the power line is also for us, we are not allowed to get closer even to the low tension lines (well, as much as we can).
What state are you in? I do the same thing but for Altice. That fiber drop you're working with looks like Verizon. Over here in NY we gotta splice into pdos where the light is coming from and splice at the end of the drop with a pigtail so the home installer can test for light.
Hey bro dope video, im a field tech for spectrum and i noticed your hooks on the ladder weren’t actually on the strand i could never lol pretty sketchy.
With experience comes more risk 😅 but nah I usually do it so I have room to slide one way or the other if needed. This was weird cuz the stand was very slack.
Nothing really. My isp calls them NAPs (network access point) but in general we call them MPT(Multi port terminal) which is a more generic term that applies more broadly.
@@FyBurz Thank you. I'm with EPCOM, and we offer a variety of competitively priced fiber optic options. If you're interested, I'd be happy to share some information with you.
Thank you. I'm with EPCOM, and we offer a variety of competitively priced fiber optic options. If you're interested, I'd be happy to share some information with you.@@FyBurz
Great job, dude. Answer me a question, please: what if a drop cable breaks. How exactly do you splice it? I am sure that in a different way than a multi-core cable
Depends on length. Usually just replace. On longer drops. Sometimes we take it back to the last pole and splice it there. There’s lots of variables though.
Umm. Idk the brand. I usually buy the 10 packs at the hardware store. They’re pretty thin and flexible. Just dipped in neoprene maybe. I like these specifically because they work with my phone. And they’re pretty durable. It’s like duty work so it gives me the protection I need while still maintaining full range of motion.
So you guys are pre-installing home's? No actual service provided? Also what part of the world is this? In my market it is against code to attach anything to the power mast.
My drops are order based tech comes behind me to install. I’m in BC Canada. No logic to be against code. It’s the tallest strongest point design to attached cables to. It’s protocol here to attach on mast.
attaching the J-hook would cost you an extra attachment charge by the owning company of the poles. definitely don't want to use those if height clearance is not required
Gross. Pre-connectorized drops. I work for a fttx isp and we only have a few markets left using this, we just fusion splice on a pigtail now and connect it into our terminals. So much nicer than having to carry around a bunch of different sized reels. Feels bad man!
In America if you ran that drop you did it wrong way. You can’t use that strand that belongs to cable. Just like cable companies can’t put clamps on phone or fiber strand. You’ll have to go off the pole
as a coax supe using this to learn and reteach fiber, holy fuck please be more careful on the ladder. neither times up were you properly hooked or strapped off. you do good clean work, please be safe even casually and especially while being instructional
@@FyBurz trust me i understand. when i'm alone i don't strap off and i'm pretty loose with safety. but a couple years ago at spectrum there was a guy who fell due to not having proper EQ or safety knowledge and since then anyone i personally know would be fired on the spot for not being properly hooked onto the strand, and not using a safety harness up top. regardless, thank you for the very educational content
@@f2bacon I always wear a harness and you might not see it but I’m usually hooked up to the strand as well. In some situations I’d rather fall than be stuck hanging. I’ve had poles snap on me and luckily I wasn’t strapped because it would have likely lead to me breaking my legs.
He’s talking about your ladder hooks. You should let your hooks rest on the strand when climbing the strand. Your hooks were almost a foot above the strand. Also, when you belt off, your belt should be long enough so that you can wrap from one side of your climbing gear then to the strand on one side of the ladder then to the inside of the ladder then back to the other side of the ladder and finally attaching to the other ring of your climbing gear. It appears you go straight from your climbing gear to the strand.
@@Wav10001 I’m very aware of how most people use their ladder and lanyard. I’ve explained in multiple videos why I leave my hooks above strand. (Which I don’t always do) I have my way of doing it. To some it may seem unsafe and it is to a certain extent at the gain of efficiency. I have a lot of experience with ladders and heights so I can safely do my work while still maintaining efficiency. Also I want to note that my ladder is usually placed very near the MPT/NAP. And if I were to place the hooks tight to strand I wouldn’t be able to effectively route my fibre through clamps. To summarize we all have an our way of doing the work, granted I could maximize my safety. But if any of you have ever worked construction you all know there are ways to work safely yet efficiently.
All this talk about the strand, I wonder why you attached to the electric riser when there seems to be a perfectly good telecom riser. Under NEC attaching to the electric riser is not allowed but violated all the time.
Here that is the standard. All telecom attachments go to the hydro mast. They’re designed to take the load. Telco masts are often under 1.5” and the mast clamps don’t even natively fit on them.
Your span clamp in on wrong should be a 1/4turn more the last clamp you put on the RClamp will slip off in a heavy wind. A bell senior installer trainer
Sorry but that’s not up to our standards. They are either oriented up or down. With the opening always towards the slack side. Allows for more drops to pass through easily and to neatly dress the loop. Although I agree it could potentially fall off in high winds, I did zip tie it to the clamp to prevent that and tensioned it at the house accordingly as well. Interesting that Bell uses the Clamps sideways. Appreciate the insight tho, Thanks. 6:15
@@FyBurz your company does it the right way, maybe a small or local ISP. This is the best way to break up the work load, excellent work with the drop route as well. At a huge ISP field techs are treated like garbage, it’s great you have the opportunity to enjoy what you do!
@@FyBurz Our company has bullied out service partners or contractors for installs, sucks because we " in house " have tripped work load. And there were some that did good work, but overall they just didn’t pay them enough by the jobs. Those guys should’ve been paid by the hour and we would’ve had less work load on the in house guys. Going on a tangent, but it’s cool to see another guy hanging fiber drops. What sort of winch do you use when you hang a span over 400 ‘ 120 meters ? I usually pull tight then hook the drop hanger to a ratchet strap.
Our strands are mostly shared here, and no one came off the pole as I showed in the video they’re all off the strand. Just one pole to the left is another fiber MPT
Sppsshhh. Ill clamp to anything with a support cable. If I'm running a spectrum drop with a midspan bump, but the span for spectrum is missing or broken, hello att feeder line.
@@billycole852 haha, yeah I mean no one is auditing these lines because it’s turns into a mess around. I use their strand here, they’re using ours around the corner.
Your lack of safety training is astounding. Got the job done but I can count half dozen violations. For one, learn how to use your damn climbing belt correctly. You most certainly could’ve came off the pole with a j hook and avoided that entire mess by placing under the strand on the pole. You’re not even using your hooks on the strand 🤦♂️
Read some of my replied you might get some insight into my perspective 😅. Safety is a spectrum. I agree though I could work safer. But also take much longer to do my job. Yes I could have gone to J hook. But here we come off the strand without issue.
