Water in the conduit? Translation: make certain that whatever you run through the conduit is water proof because the people who run the conduit may be too lazy to properly glue the conduit together so that it is water proof and/or bedding it so that ground shifting will not break the conduit.
@oldtimefarmboy61728 күн бұрын
You guys should consider using gas and O2 detectors, you’d be surprised how many manholes have lower O2, that’s a killer.
@jeffjones4006Ай бұрын
I appreciate you, we are looking into getting some! Do you have a suggestion on a good brand?
@lifeasweknowit5280Ай бұрын
MSA ALTAIR 5X@@lifeasweknowit5280
@mrharleyguy2uАй бұрын
Blower also.
@mrharleyguy2uАй бұрын
And maybe some confined space training
@rgodon7552Ай бұрын
MSA. They have an all in one confined spaces kit too.
@johnnydollar2253Ай бұрын
Great detail on the vids, much better than others' short snippets. Gotta love the good ol' plastic bag trick! (and the super buried manhole lol)
@gigabitguyАй бұрын
Thank you!
@lifeasweknowit5280Ай бұрын
Love to see how this is done in other parts of the world and learn a new thing or two. I do more or less the same work in Sweden.
@user-vb8lx1jm5j2 ай бұрын
You should definitely make some videos and post them. I’d watch them!
@lifeasweknowit52802 ай бұрын
Watched a crew take a chance . You don’t get a second chance .
@robertsmith3518Ай бұрын
Exactly. Real bad deal with that manhole. No gas test to check that it's safe to enter. No ladder to quickly get people in or out. No rescue system to pull someone out if they get in trouble. No ventilation blower set up to get fresh air if needed. Perfect setup for some totally preventable fatalities. Eventually luck will run out.
@TheJchulce3 күн бұрын
Love the vidz! do you guys provide data services or just build OSP for other providers? I own/operate a telecom business in south texas
@stxbroadband2 ай бұрын
Thank you. Currently we just build OSP for other providers. I’m part owner in this business. Someday I’d like to provide data services but for now we do OSP. Thanks for the support!
@lifeasweknowit52802 ай бұрын
What is your niche in the industry?
@lifeasweknowit52802 ай бұрын
You guys do great work! You definitely want to transition to becoming the service provider, owning the customer, and earning recurring monthly revenue. Best business model. Apart from operating an ISP, I assist new service providers with getting their network designed, edge routing setup using juniper devices, and making sure they have a solid plan to scale/grow. We should talk sometime. Continue the kick ass work my friend.
@stxbroadband2 ай бұрын
Thank you! Very cool, it would be cool to talk at some point.
@lifeasweknowit52802 ай бұрын
Congratulations and welcome to your new youtube experience. Let the subs begin.
@TheSmokie55Ай бұрын
Thank you!
@lifeasweknowit5280Ай бұрын
Did a ton of cable pulling in the past, back when we had to pull in Cat-3 25 pair copper to MDF's and IDF's. I've worked through the transition from old X/Y stepper switch telecom systems to multi-mode fiber and VOIP. So I know your dilemma well.
@merlepattersonАй бұрын
Awesome, I’ve only handled fiber.
@lifeasweknowit5280Ай бұрын
@@lifeasweknowit5280 I have a feeling that with satellite technology (think Starlink) and wireless advancements, even fiber may become as outdated as copper? I know being an old-school PBX programmer/Copper tech from the past, the data networking teams quickly eliminated my job when everything went over to cloud servers from internal private business exchanges.
@merlepattersonАй бұрын
That wasn’t in the town telephone buildings was it?
@rmhanseniiiАй бұрын
@@rmhanseniii If you're talking about AT&T 1A2 switches it was, but I worked mainly business systems.
@merlepattersonАй бұрын
@@merlepatterson ok…I used to repair light fixtures in the old Bell Atlantic telephone buildings and in the cable vaults where the phone wires come in from the street.
@rmhanseniiiАй бұрын
Nice bit of handiwork.
@jimsvideos7201Ай бұрын
Thanks
@lifeasweknowit5280Ай бұрын
Looks like the engineers didn’t have any good maps of exactly where the conduit had been installed.
@BartlettTFDАй бұрын
If I had a dollar for every time that's happened....And the older the site the worse the location process is.
@phuturephunkАй бұрын
We hardly ever do. A lot of it ends up being rough approximation based on what we do know, or can find and make sense of.
@Hakuna_FrittataАй бұрын
I QC lumen fiber jobs. The engineering drawings. Used to be on front end. Now I am at the other end.
@stoveguy2133Ай бұрын
That’s awesome! Which end is more fun?
@lifeasweknowit5280Ай бұрын
Was fiber certified years ago. Was that a fox and hound you were using and we never pulled fiber. We would blow it with nitrogen. A bottle will blow about 1000 ft. If you need it longer you still will blow it 1000ft at a time and figure 8 it for the next section. If the fiber is pulled, it will internally break. Are you maybe pulling mult?
@monadking2761Ай бұрын
To be honest with you I’m not sure what a fox and hound is? Lol. I’ve pulled a lot of fiber and haven’t had it break internally. I think fiber technology has come a long way. We have blown Fiber too, it’s a lot less work if the conduit good.
@lifeasweknowit5280Ай бұрын
@lifeasweknowit5280 The fox and hound is the directional beaper that tracks the signal down a wire.
@monadking2761Ай бұрын
Oh I see, yeah we call it a Locater. The brand is called pipe horn
@lifeasweknowit5280Ай бұрын
you definitely can pull fiber. it has incredible tensile strength.
@masterape330Ай бұрын
Can you say how much this job will cost the end customer?
@OriginalJetForMe2 ай бұрын
I can’t
@lifeasweknowit52802 ай бұрын
So do you leave a pull rope in the conduit for the next guy?
@stevesolt4036Ай бұрын
Usually but I did leave one in the 4”. I should have
@lifeasweknowit5280Ай бұрын
Colorado? Where? 480 to the south of you?
@Look_What_You_Did2 ай бұрын
Yes we work all over Colorado.
@lifeasweknowit52802 ай бұрын
That jeep didn't care about that stop sign one bit @5:30
@MotFPS2 ай бұрын
stop signs are merely a suggestion
@ghhfgbbkufghАй бұрын
they burry the man hole covers like that? just skimming through video on silent.
@cdoublejj2 ай бұрын
I believe the Man Hole got covered during construction on the road and when the warehouses were being built. They don’t normally cover them
@lifeasweknowit52802 ай бұрын
whenever u can pls buy a better camera
@zekemeek38Ай бұрын
Do you have any suggestions? I use GoPros at the moment
Water in the conduit? Translation: make certain that whatever you run through the conduit is water proof because the people who run the conduit may be too lazy to properly glue the conduit together so that it is water proof and/or bedding it so that ground shifting will not break the conduit.
You guys should consider using gas and O2 detectors, you’d be surprised how many manholes have lower O2, that’s a killer.
I appreciate you, we are looking into getting some! Do you have a suggestion on a good brand?
MSA ALTAIR 5X@@lifeasweknowit5280
Blower also.
And maybe some confined space training
MSA. They have an all in one confined spaces kit too.
Great detail on the vids, much better than others' short snippets. Gotta love the good ol' plastic bag trick! (and the super buried manhole lol)
Thank you!
Love to see how this is done in other parts of the world and learn a new thing or two. I do more or less the same work in Sweden.
You should definitely make some videos and post them. I’d watch them!
Watched a crew take a chance . You don’t get a second chance .
Exactly. Real bad deal with that manhole. No gas test to check that it's safe to enter. No ladder to quickly get people in or out. No rescue system to pull someone out if they get in trouble. No ventilation blower set up to get fresh air if needed. Perfect setup for some totally preventable fatalities. Eventually luck will run out.
Love the vidz! do you guys provide data services or just build OSP for other providers? I own/operate a telecom business in south texas
Thank you. Currently we just build OSP for other providers. I’m part owner in this business. Someday I’d like to provide data services but for now we do OSP. Thanks for the support!
What is your niche in the industry?
You guys do great work! You definitely want to transition to becoming the service provider, owning the customer, and earning recurring monthly revenue. Best business model. Apart from operating an ISP, I assist new service providers with getting their network designed, edge routing setup using juniper devices, and making sure they have a solid plan to scale/grow. We should talk sometime. Continue the kick ass work my friend.
Thank you! Very cool, it would be cool to talk at some point.
Congratulations and welcome to your new youtube experience. Let the subs begin.
Thank you!
Did a ton of cable pulling in the past, back when we had to pull in Cat-3 25 pair copper to MDF's and IDF's. I've worked through the transition from old X/Y stepper switch telecom systems to multi-mode fiber and VOIP. So I know your dilemma well.
Awesome, I’ve only handled fiber.
@@lifeasweknowit5280 I have a feeling that with satellite technology (think Starlink) and wireless advancements, even fiber may become as outdated as copper? I know being an old-school PBX programmer/Copper tech from the past, the data networking teams quickly eliminated my job when everything went over to cloud servers from internal private business exchanges.
That wasn’t in the town telephone buildings was it?
@@rmhanseniii If you're talking about AT&T 1A2 switches it was, but I worked mainly business systems.
@@merlepatterson ok…I used to repair light fixtures in the old Bell Atlantic telephone buildings and in the cable vaults where the phone wires come in from the street.
Nice bit of handiwork.
Thanks
Looks like the engineers didn’t have any good maps of exactly where the conduit had been installed.
If I had a dollar for every time that's happened....And the older the site the worse the location process is.
We hardly ever do. A lot of it ends up being rough approximation based on what we do know, or can find and make sense of.
I QC lumen fiber jobs. The engineering drawings. Used to be on front end. Now I am at the other end.
That’s awesome! Which end is more fun?
Was fiber certified years ago. Was that a fox and hound you were using and we never pulled fiber. We would blow it with nitrogen. A bottle will blow about 1000 ft. If you need it longer you still will blow it 1000ft at a time and figure 8 it for the next section. If the fiber is pulled, it will internally break. Are you maybe pulling mult?
To be honest with you I’m not sure what a fox and hound is? Lol. I’ve pulled a lot of fiber and haven’t had it break internally. I think fiber technology has come a long way. We have blown Fiber too, it’s a lot less work if the conduit good.
@lifeasweknowit5280 The fox and hound is the directional beaper that tracks the signal down a wire.
Oh I see, yeah we call it a Locater. The brand is called pipe horn
you definitely can pull fiber. it has incredible tensile strength.
Can you say how much this job will cost the end customer?
I can’t
So do you leave a pull rope in the conduit for the next guy?
Usually but I did leave one in the 4”. I should have
Colorado? Where? 480 to the south of you?
Yes we work all over Colorado.
That jeep didn't care about that stop sign one bit @5:30
stop signs are merely a suggestion
they burry the man hole covers like that? just skimming through video on silent.
I believe the Man Hole got covered during construction on the road and when the warehouses were being built. They don’t normally cover them
whenever u can pls buy a better camera
Do you have any suggestions? I use GoPros at the moment
When did blue collar job became interesting?
always