Must be Monday!

That's a bad day for sure!

811 call before you dig!

This 1 gonna cost you a long long time

Monetary and repair losses for taking out major fiber optics can be astronomical.

I used to fly aerial patrol on fiber optic line across northern Ohio. These situations were some of the things we looked for. Back
hoes were always a red flag.

Gene

Years ago a fence company was installing a chain link fence aroud a development. They drilled holes along the road and hit the
buried phone line with every hole. Kept on drilling. My friend does underground for the utility companies, says if he hits one of
those major communications links he is out of business in about 24 hours. Besides repair costs they also charge for loss of
services.

hired out to bush hog a field once, guy had started to build fence, had pulled 2 strands of barb and laid on the ground. he gave up on the job and a year later i picked up the wire while mowing, my bush hog looked a lot like that.

Driving across a field in my pickup and suddenly came to a stop. The lugs on my rear tires picked up a strand of barbed wire from
a long ago fence and wrapped the axle several times.

Hope it is not fiber !

farmer down the road was plowing his field and hooked a fiber optic cable, don't know the outcome but I would think the cable should be buried deeper than a 16" plow could reach.

Years ago, I plowed a patch out by the road because the wife wanted to plant some raspberries. Later in the afternoon the neighbor came over to ask if our phone was out. It was not, but a quick walk out to newly plowed ground found a wire cut nicely into ~14" pieces.

Called the phone company and they sent out a service guy. He wired in a temporary line until they could get out there with a cable plow to pull in a new line.

He marked it up as a no charge service because the cable was supposed to be 24" deep minimum and it was only about 8". He told me he sees that all the time. They hire contractors to plow in the lines and they always go shallow so they get the job done quickly. By the time something happens the contractor has long since been paid for the job and it is too much trouble to try to figure out who put the line in and go after them for the repairs.

Like getting too close to the fence wire with the tedder.

I have as-builts for all of my underground. BUT, I will still dial 811.
As a side, a 10" diameter pressure sewer was installed down my (gravel/dirt) public road to handle the
Toyota Tech Center about 2 miles away. I checked with local utility about the exact location. They
said within the road right-of-way. They claimed the right-of-way is 120' wide. I said nope! 66'
right-of-way. Additionally I told them that the actual road is off center to my side of the right-of-
way. Well, they tell me, the county WANTS the 120" I said tuff. My documents, recorded at the county,
say 66'. They checked and I was right. I then told them that if that pipe goes inside my property line
I will hire a backhoe to take it out. PERIOD!
If the county wants that property, pay me. It would destroy a nice one acre building site and one acre
here with natural gas and municiple water is about $80,000.
This is the same county that a county road maintenance supervisor in 1990 said I had to fill in a 7"
deep 200' long plowed field furrow as it was a danger to traffic. Ten years later I had to provide a
ditch a long that same place when I built a paved private road just to the south.
Now the last part. Around 2012 a contractor for the county was "cleaning" ditches and the county had 2
of their trucks to haul away the spoils. No you don't! That is my dirt, put it right over there. They
did.
Now I watched while they started cleaning and partially blocking the road with no flagger, cars were
comming from both directions and one driver lost control, came through the ditch and rolled upside down
in my yard.
That stopped work and I'm glad that I did. They were digging too deep. Water would be standing in that
ditch with every rain. The bottom of culvert that crossed the road 200' away would be 4" higher than of
the ditch!
I have other unrelated stories but for another time. It can almost be a full time job to stay ahead of
these municiple idiots
ps I just received an e-mail from our county sheriff basically saying we are now a sanctuary county.
When is the next election?

I delivered a track loader to a field,when I got to the shop I made sure that I was in the right spot. It turned
out that we had been hired to cover a gasoline pipeline that ran through that field,it had 6 inches of dirt over
it. That would have been a big boom.

I have been told by more than one phone company line installer that the phone company will only pay to install the
line 6" deep if the installer wants to install it deeper they do it at there own cost

We just had new phone lines run here a couple days ago. Hasn't been any here for more than 30 years. This is a composite cable made up of both copper and fiber optic. When it reaches the main road, it connects to full fiber optic mainline.

I don't know how deep the mainline is, but they set the truck line to the house in at 32" deep. Did a really nice job!! Should be connected some time late-Winter to early Spring. Then it's adios to cellular internet!