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Dec 23 / Greg

Fiber + Backhoe = Bad

Soooo we get a call from a customer that their link dropped. Upon further investigation, their fiber runs back to a local university and then jumps to their location. A little more digging shows that the city was installing a fire hydrant along that line. A quick call to the city yields us the information that “We hit the conduit, but you should be ok.” Once we get it dug up, the conduit is busted and our fiber is CRUSHED.

Ouchies

Ouchies

itz ze hole

itz ze hole

I don't think it's supposed to do that...

I don't think it's supposed to do that...

Why not make the hole a little bigger

Why not make the hole a little bigger

We never learned how to use shovels

We never learned how to use shovels

Like a monkey at the zoo

Like a monkey at the zoo

Splice truck out of H-town

Splice truck out of H-town

The fire hydrant that caused the heartache

The fire hydrant that caused the heartache

You have to have the requisite number of guys supervising...hehehe

You have to have the requisite number of guys supervising...hehehe

Closer to James than is comfortable

Closer to James than is comfortable

I snuck in there for one shot ;)

I snuck in there for one shot 😉

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  1. Brian / Dec 23 2009

    Better now then on the 24th or the 25th.

    Do acts-of-backhoe count against your SLA?

  2. Greg / Dec 23 2009

    This actually happened like a month ago…and since this was A&M riding this fiber, they don’t give a flip what happens to you…as long as they stay up…hehehe.

  3. Holden / Dec 23 2009

    Good Bull- Gig’em!

  4. Greg / Dec 23 2009

    Holden :

    Good Bull- Gig’em!

    Hoden you bastige! I forgot you are an old ag…;)

  5. Holden / Dec 23 2009

    That’s right- 5 dolla says that city worker is a t-sip insider at the city of CS!! Hope all is well with you and yours this holiday season, dude! Here’s to great geeky toys in ’10!

  6. omegatron / Jan 4 2010

    In Australia we call this Backhoe Attenuation! 🙂
    Gotta love the “it’ll be fine” attitude of people who make that sort of mess :-/

  7. Greg / Jan 4 2010

    omegatron :

    In Australia we call this Backhoe Attenuation! :-)
    Gotta love the “it’ll be fine” attitude of people who make that sort of mess :-/

    I love it Andrew! Backhoe Attenuation…hehehe. They were nice enough to dig the fiber back up for us, so they aren’t all bad…:)

  8. omegatron / Jan 4 2010

    Thats good to hear, normally the fibre issues we have to deal with are in IDF’s onsite where a tradie has come along to drill/cut/move something and ends up just pulling/squashing/tieing the fibre up nearby *winces*.

    By the time we get there to identify the issue they’re gone and its “No no I put that back where it was its fine!” *facepalm*

  9. Greg / Jan 5 2010

    Luckily we don’t have a lot of contractors roaming our equipment closets. Most of them are supervised into the closets, soooo if something breaks we can hit them with a hammer. An MC Hammer…we make them wear gold parachute pants and dance sideways…not a pretty site.

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