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Greg " Whip" Whipple
6/2/2000
Thanks Joe and Xmod for the reply, its got so bad we hire'd a permiting contractor to help the Mso do thier permits, it still took almost a month to get back to work, and then the job gets shut down , it was part of merger that has not happened yet so they don't know who owns the system so niether side wants to cough up the three million to finish the job. Cable TV its not a job its an adventure, we can do it from the bottom of the trench to the top of the pole, drink all night and get up and do it again so all you rookies pay attention to us old line dawgs and learn.
Doug
6/2/2000
Gary, Fu*in right, you get close, call.
john freeman
6/2/2000
to delash cable, take a rope with a "clip" on
it (like a handline) and clip it to the strand,
take lashing wire loose and pull the rope to
the next pole. then it's nice to have a sharp pair of tin snips to cut the mess of wire loose.
HELP
6/2/2000
Greg, I know how you feel I had to do the same thing over here.I dont know what I would do with out my permit contractor it helps alot.
Especialy when you are constantly being pushed
for big numbers every week. Good Luck
Doug
6/3/2000
permits??, how about fiber, anyone have any fiber, and then there's the revised design on the redesign, date and save your maps per day, or you'll be sending crews out for free, get everything in writing, the days of a hand shake are gone for ever.
HELP
6/3/2000
question of the week:
does anyone know what company makes the best
equipment in the cable industry today?
is it,
A)Magnavox
B)Jerrold
C)Scientific Atlanta
D)I havent got a clue
Doug
6/3/2000
It's all good gear these days, mag is easy to balance, the GI BTN Node in my opinion is the best node out there, I've seen them take some serious hits and seen them full of water and they just keep on tickin, SA is also reliable,they are high dollar though and they are a bitch to lug up a pole when there loaded and the reverse side is dc sensitive, Antec is the worst gear out there, they were called Tecscan (trash can) no one would buy the stuff so they changed the name, well gentlemen it's the same old whore, she's just wearing a new dress, poor mother boards, alot of cold soder problems,
xmod
6/3/2000
It looks like the contract work force out there wants
to point the finger at the mso's for all of these permitting problems
we seem to be having these days. Granted, there are some in-house guys out there that don't earn their pay. I,ve been responsible for a lot of
state, county, etc. permits for several years now...and it's not near as simple
as it used to be. For example, a few years back we were asked to build 2.4 miles
of new plant to service a new Illinois State Prison facility. Then the state hwy
dept denied us easement along the state hwy to build to the state prison. We ended up
buying `high dollar' easement from the railroad.
Joe Brown
6/3/2000
Permits are only the begining folks.Make sure the design house or the MSO stamps "Final Design" on the maps issued. Preliminary Designs some times can realy cause a mess.
GENO McINTOSH
6/3/2000
new commers beware of star communications, they wrote me a n.s.f.check,dave keiver is the check deceiever,do your gambling at the card table, bad checks dont feed familys.
