[TowerTalk] Trenching

[Pete Smith]

Sounds pretty cool, all right.  Breaking a gas line could be exciting, so I hope they're right about not cutting them.  Then there's a guy I know locally whose household 220V service accidentally got shorted to underground HV supply (11KV?) by a Verizon "mole" device laying fiber optic cable.  Destroyed every electrical circuit and device in the house, took almost a year to repair.

73, Pete N4ZR

At 08:18 AM 8/26/2006, Larry Burke wrote:

>Saw this mentioned in a New York Times article this morning. Sounds like it
>would be an interesting tool to bury cables between a shack and a tower. or
>radials. Anyone seen one of these in action? Almost sounds like they are
>proprietary to Verizon: 
>
>"Verizon has developed a special knife that uses pressurized air to slice
>through lawns so fiber optic lines can be buried. The tool cuts through
>grass, but does not break sprinkler pipes and gas lines." 
>
>
>Larry Burke WI5A
>Friendswood, Texas
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