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.

@lifeasweknowit5280

Ай бұрын

I appreciate you, we are looking into getting some! Do you have a suggestion on a good brand?

@mrharleyguy2u

Ай бұрын

MSA ALTAIR 5X@@lifeasweknowit5280

@mrharleyguy2u

Ай бұрын

Blower also.

@rgodon7552

Ай бұрын

And maybe some confined space training

@johnnydollar2253

Ай бұрын

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)

@lifeasweknowit5280

Ай бұрын

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.

@lifeasweknowit5280

Ай бұрын

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 .

@TheJchulce

2 күн 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.

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

@lifeasweknowit5280

2 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!

@lifeasweknowit5280

2 ай бұрын

What is your niche in the industry?

@stxbroadband

2 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.

@lifeasweknowit5280

2 ай бұрын

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.

@lifeasweknowit5280

Ай бұрын

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.

@lifeasweknowit5280

Ай бұрын

Awesome, I’ve only handled fiber.

@merlepatterson

Ай 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.

@rmhanseniii

Ай бұрын

That wasn’t in the town telephone buildings was it?

@merlepatterson

Ай бұрын

@@rmhanseniii If you're talking about AT&T 1A2 switches it was, but I worked mainly business systems.

@rmhanseniii

Ай 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.

Nice bit of handiwork.

@lifeasweknowit5280

Ай бұрын

Thanks

Looks like the engineers didn’t have any good maps of exactly where the conduit had been installed.

@phuturephunk

Ай бұрын

If I had a dollar for every time that's happened....And the older the site the worse the location process is.

@Hakuna_Frittata

Ай 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.

I QC lumen fiber jobs. The engineering drawings. Used to be on front end. Now I am at the other end.

@lifeasweknowit5280

Ай бұрын

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?

@lifeasweknowit5280

Ай 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.

@monadking2761

Ай бұрын

@lifeasweknowit5280 The fox and hound is the directional beaper that tracks the signal down a wire.

@lifeasweknowit5280

Ай бұрын

Oh I see, yeah we call it a Locater. The brand is called pipe horn

@masterape330

Ай бұрын

you definitely can pull fiber. it has incredible tensile strength.

Can you say how much this job will cost the end customer?

@lifeasweknowit5280

2 ай бұрын

I can’t

So do you leave a pull rope in the conduit for the next guy?

@lifeasweknowit5280

Ай бұрын

Usually but I did leave one in the 4”. I should have

Colorado? Where? 480 to the south of you?

@lifeasweknowit5280

2 ай бұрын

Yes we work all over Colorado.

That jeep didn't care about that stop sign one bit @5:30

@ghhfgbbkufgh

Ай бұрын

stop signs are merely a suggestion

they burry the man hole covers like that? just skimming through video on silent.

@lifeasweknowit5280

2 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

whenever u can pls buy a better camera

@lifeasweknowit5280

Ай бұрын

Do you have any suggestions? I use GoPros at the moment

When did blue collar job became interesting?

@gigabitguy

Ай бұрын

always