Work with Eustis Cable as one of our contractors in northern NH and VT for the "blue team". Good guys the lot of you, as an in house I appreciate you guys picking up storm damage repairs every winter 👌
Damn dude you are on point holy shit. You’re like one of those guys in the army that can clean a gun in record time blindfolded but you work for a cable company instead
Hey bro I hope you read this. I'm not knocking you at all looks like you got the idea down. A lot of these guys are giving you solid advice even though it sounds like they are slamming you or just acting like know-it-alls. First off when you go to set your Lahser on the line please close the gates one day it will save the Lasher. Next when you get to the Pole swap the last year from one side to the other. Set your bugs cut your wire. Bug it offf strap it tag it bond it cut everything then wrap your handline twice around the bucket. Boom down a couple inches and say yep or pull me forward easy the lasher is tied on. Instead of all that hand pulling and booming down to pull forward. Also Instead of the groundhand pulling the lasher he can make straps for you
Have u ever had issues with that altec Boom control Stop working intermittently? either from ground controls or platform.. whereas u have to let go of safety or reset kill switch? Your attention to detail on the lashing clamps is spot on..
I live in a rural area and I still remember the excitement in 2011 when I saw a crew of these cable guys hanging coax from pole to pole on my road --- knowing soon I would finally have broadband cable internet and could finally ditch the dialup bullshit I was dealing with for over 15 years!
Make you 5x faster if you saved all your cuts for last only should have cutters in ur hands 2 times each pole 1 to cut after swap then last at after all your bands ands what not then cut rest after lasher is sent just how we do it saves a little time each Poole but adds up keep on keeping it on my gut
why not wait to cut all your straps and lashing wire til you are done? you are wasting alot of time bringing your cutters out every time like that to indivually cut everything. next time take two coils of extra lashing wire with you so you can change the wire while youre up in the air. it will save you alot of time
work from left to right and back again. This is solid advice from ur comment. It can be done in very much less then 15 minutes pper pole. its also good to just tape the left side in this case it also helps if the wire gets broken after the fact at the clamp , and throw the lasher from one side to the other in one shot but I dont think U can do that without an apollo lasher in this case
Hello dude, I am from Mexico, I admire your work and how great you are. I was wondering if I could buy a cheaper lasher machine in your country, since in mine they are extremely expensive. Hopefully you can help me, I still do it by hand. greetings
how does it take typically for the service to go live after fiber lines are installed? 3 days ago at&t installed fiber in my neighborhood but the service isn’t live yet
How is the pay doing this type of job and do you get paid by the hour or foot of fiber done in a typical day. Also what's an average length of fiber put up in a day? Thank you for your answers
It's both. You can start hourly as a ground hand. Work your way up to a lineman or a foreman and then you get paid off how much production you do. Thats when the real money comes into play.
@OneSilentGiant We get paid $1.20/ft for stand and Coax in South Ga. You get paid double for De/Re and Wreck out for cable replacement. But if you have small 2-3 man crew the crew you can make some money. We just made 6k in a week and only worked 2 1/2 days due to rain. We had a crew come from out west just 2 guys came in and ran 2 miles a day. They told me they make about 300k a year each on the crew.
@OneSilentGiant I'm a sub contractor. I personally pay out to my coax splicer $.34/ft and $200/day to my ground hand. My coax splicer brings home 2k/wk pretty often. De/Re is usually small jobs where you delash the cable that is up their and relash new cable. Most of the time its small 1 or 2 spans. Sometimes they can get larger though. We just had a 1600' De-Re job which paid $2.30/ft. I am newer to this side of the industry as a contractor. I was working in house as a fiber splicer up to about 8 months ago and when emergencies would come up I would help and that's how I learned I am by no means the best or the fastest at this stuff.
You immediately know you’re watching contractors, as soon as you see milk creates being used as tools trays.. Thats the cleanest, most open lashing Ive ever seen in my life. You dont need to pull the lasher from the ground. Hook the bridle around the corner of your bucket, and pull it with the truck. Then you and driver dont need to keep switching spots.. At least you put the bugs on the right way.. You’re making this so much harder on yourselves.
Exactly! Why on earth would they pull it from the ground! Lash from the bucket and let your kid get experience climbing and bugging and bonding! Behind the truck!
@OneSilentGiant yeah too many times the lasher fucks up somehow for me to took it to my bucket, might get lucky and break something. but to each there own if youre makin money and not fuckin anything up keep movin
@@Tech_-ez7usI have never seen it not like that. It's standard. The only things off to me was the lasher missing the strand lock and not pulling the lashing wire through the bug nut making a few twists then cutting it so it didn't protrude with sharps. I could go on and on but mostly it's just craftsmanship.
You’re young and seem like a great worker. Get yourself into the power side and you’ll only hafta work in the rain when your getting paid double time. Ibew 💪 good luck brother
Telco and Power are all linemen. I have done both, as have a great deal of other linemen. Also, there's nothing lamer than a douche bag throwing shade and using phrases like working "hot"...you're not special or cool. Nobody cares.
