I have to admit that we've gotten pretty bad about that over the years. No excuses. Guys have been laid off, in new construction we have the subcontractors that lay in Edison's stuff drop ours in the trenches with theirs, so we don't have many ditch witches to do anything anymore, and the comapany doesn't want to do it anyway because it takes time and money. Is a pretty lousy way of doing business, and thats pretty much how it goes. I guess that the powers to be figure that the odds are with them by not even sending guys out to mark with the locators that locate for all utilities at one time...gas, water, cable, phone all at once. And as far as splices go, I've seen some money savers up front that are expensive on the backend, big time, especially if its air core buried and the cheap pieces of garbage splice leak, and they will. But, someone figures they are doing the company a favor by saving money up front by purchasing cheap splice enclosures that had no business being made in the first place. No excuses from me. Its about good looking numbers on colored pie charts and bad service anymore.
However, speaking of bulldozers and buried cables. Years back I get a repair for a customer where all of heir lines are dead. I drive through a construction site at the bottom of a hill where they are rerouting a road to build a super market, drive up the hill past another Bell guy sitting at a pedestal toning cable pairs. I go into the building and test for dialtone on the underground pairs, nothing on any pair. That aint good. I go outside to the fella at the pedestal and tell him I aint got nothing and ask him if he knows anything about it. He says he's been waiting over an hour for another guy down the hill to send him tone on pairs but aint getting nothing. No radios, cellphones, nothing, just waiting for tone on pairs for over an hour, getting nothing. OK, I've got nothing, he's got nothing, so I get in the truck and drive down through the construction site to a fella at a pedestal sending tone up the hill to a fella that aint getting it. Hmm? I walk over to where they are rerouting the road and there's the problem. A dozer leveling out the foundation for a new road and a 100 pair cable torn to shreds on one side, and a 100 pair torns to shreds on the other side, and nothing connecting them in between. Well, I figure I found everyones problem, so when the fella on the dozer shoots down past me to make another pass, I stop him and point to the shredded cable ends with about 40' missing in between, so he shuts off the dozer, climbs down, says, "I didn't do it", and walked away. Personally, i didn't care. It got fixed.
Now...unrelated, but you wanna see what happens when a demo company drops a pretty short and small smoke stack at an old fossil into a 118KV grid two or three days ago in Ohio? The old stack was just tall enough to reach it when it fell the wrong way. I sent it to my power plant buddies and they laughed like heck. Sure put a hurt on the demo company's profit margin, you can bet. Take a look at this. The pictures are good, but the video is better. Lucky no one got killed.
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