450ft underground fiber drop (DROPPED) during installation

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• SU

  @suzylarry1 · 9 months ago

  I enjoy watching your videos . I have retired from CATV outside plant after doing 10 years of strictly installation work. You are text level where I retired and I is refreshing to see the younger guy and their level of the COMMUNICATION world . Going thru walls  to fish , I used automotive brake line and drilled the EYE hole  in it. I was all aerial plant , no 1000 fish real needed . Keep up the great work.

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• US

  @user-lt2rw5nr9s · 9 months ago

  Wow, quite literally dropped. Glad it didn't look like it caused too many issues.

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• GR

  @Greg-et2dp · 6 days ago

  Joes light work your YouTube videos are awesome and  your do interesting job my friend

• BE

  @bennettt4404 · 9 months ago (edited)

  Burying a drop BEFORE splicing the NID?! Love it. Our local Fiber company does the install, and then someone comes back 1-14 days later to bury it. In fact I&apos;ve seen them run cables across driveways and tell people it&apos;s okay to drive over them, which just seems crazy. Then again, they don&apos;t get buried all that deep, and our landscapers use a riding lawn mower. I&apos;m always paranoid that they&apos;ll cause a compression fracture of the fiber or something. Or am I overthinking it? I really wish they would use conduit... Also the guy nicked a power line going to a sprinkler valve. Fortunately I was able to put a tracer on the line and identify the break point and unearth it myself without destroying the fiber. <br><br>Keep up the good work. I have a ton of respect for what you do and really enjoy watching your videos! When I was a like 10-12 years old I was fascinated by telecommunications and the internet (It was 1995 / 96 / 97). I used to ride my bike around my neighborhood hoping to find a telecommunications tech working at a box. They loved that I showed such interest in their work and most of them enjoyed talking to me. I remember one told me I only needed a 7/16th socket to open the box... Another told me the phone number of an automated phone service, that would read out the phone number of the line you were on. Good times. Heck even a few would give me old gear they didn&apos;t need... I scored a few tone generators and probes that way.

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• ST

  @starlite528 · 9 months ago

  when you see the tip of the fish tape, you&apos;re like, thank you Jesus the conduit wasn&apos;t crushed again.

• RA

  @rajacable70 · 9 months ago

  Good job like. Job givme job &nbsp;sir ji

• PA

  @panzee21 · 9 months ago

  hey man nice video. can you do a video how you troubleshoot cable break using otdr?

• ST

  @starlite528 · 9 months ago

  maybe 3d print or otherwise gerrymander a contraption to mount a vise to your tailgate,

• PA

  @paulf8870 · 9 months ago (edited)

  I bought a T49 Orientek, &nbsp;because of your video.<br>I noticed it&apos;s cladding alignment.<br>Do you notice any difference between core and cladding alignment?

• AL

  @aliendoggy1 · 9 months ago

  Are you paid hourly or per assignment?

• FR

  @Frankie29392 · 9 months ago

  Just yeeted that thing

• FP

  @fps_purple9556 · 6 months ago (edited)

  What a frustrating install. Maybe a fiber reaper would do good for holding foscs to the tailgate