Alan Reynolds
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that will cost a few quid to repair up near us poor bloke on a jcb dug up the fibre cable feeding hundreds of propertys 4 pm on a friday afternoon
Expensis claimus leggus.
This was a corkscrew.This happened near our HQ in London a while back, one of those big cork screws, huge issues in the area data & telephones BT/Open Reach there for weeks
Working with my sparky friends (I have to design stuff for them from time to time), underground 11kv wiring all looks the same in the manholes, and making that first cut on a dead cable (for removal) is doneMy mate who worked for an electric company, clocked a substantial length of cable in a duct
that was unused
He and his mate found the other end and decided to cut it and drag it through into their van one Sunday afternoon.
He armed himself with an axe an they went and lifted the duct cover and prepared to swing the axe through the dead cable.
He swung the axe and hit the cable. There was an almighty flash and bang and the axe vaporised.
After recovering, they quickly dropped the cover down and drove off.
The mistake of which cable came about because when he first looked, he was standing on one side of the duct and it was the nearest cable, but when they went back he stood on the other side of the duct, he should have hit the furthest one.
They put out a substantial area.
Should put a few mafia blocks around it for protection....Near us, a girl driving a Fiesta, wiped out one of the green communication boxes a couple of days after Christmas last year. It looked like the pic, wires everywhere. It was on the entrance to an housing estate so it took out internet to the whole estate, about 600 houses. People were on holiday from work or working from home etc and they didn't get it back on for two weeks!! The moaning on social media was hilarious.....
if the mobile phones went off within ten minutes everyone's asses would fall outNear us, a girl driving a Fiesta, wiped out one of the green communication boxes a couple of days after Christmas last year. It looked like the pic, wires everywhere. It was on the entrance to an housing estate so it took out internet to the whole estate, about 600 houses. People were on holiday from work or working from home etc and they didn't get it back on for two weeks!! The moaning on social media was hilarious.....
Working with my sparky friends (I have to design stuff for them from time to time), underground 11kv wiring all looks the same in the manholes, and making that first cut on a dead cable (for removal) is done
either with a remote controlled hydraulic shear, or a device that pokes a nail
thru the cable (remote actuated Hilti gun type tool), effectively shorting the outer shield to the center conductor.
The risk of getting it wrong is deadly.
That sounds like the same device.in the UK we prove dead using a standard a spiking gun which is made by Accles Shelvoke who also make cattle bolt guns. These clamp around the 11kv cable and have sharpened chisel in the bore. They are activated by a munitions cartridge loaded into it, selected by the type of cable. The firing pin is activated by 10m long piece of string. If live the chisel will earth the cable tripping the protection at the substation,