https://www.okie811.org/sites/callokie/uploads/documents/Resources/Call_Okie_Marks_Guide.pdf
Orange is communications cable
Diamond in lines is fiber in conduit.
EXPENSIVE DONT CUT
Orange is communications cable
Diamond in lines is fiber in conduit.
EXPENSIVE DONT CUT
I think they're marking houses of residents who arent vaccinated.
I hate to be a conspiracy monger but that kinda looks like a Star Wars Tie Fighter.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-50660788
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-50660788
It’s from Reddit. Diamond hands. Hold, don’t sell.
In the early days of IT, it used to be common to have services that were used by unknown users, and one tried and true (albeit not entirely customer-friendly) method to find out who they were was to either let it fail or turn it off to see who screamed. A former colleague called this the "fiber-seeking backhoe method," because we used to see a lot of inattentive backhoe operators who were really good at finding the buried fiber.
I'm pretty one of them built the private road just across my south property line--he managed to cut my phone line four times in two weeks. One time it was so bad that the AT$T lineman couldn't even locate the cut end of the line and had to pull a new one, and one time the idiot stabbed his real estate sign through the new line before they'd even had a chance to bury it. I very seriously considered "borrowing" some parts from his dozer until he figured out how to freaking call 811.
Yep. Unfortunately I once had a job marking underground utilities for about a year and a half.
That's a conduit run with either phone or cable TV fiber optic.
Orange for communications
Yellow for natural gas
Red for electric
With the double line like that the digger is liable for any damage to utilities between the lines plus one foot on either side. With a single line mark it is one foot on either side of the line.
Whomever puts down the marks is liable for the damage outside of those parameters whether it's the utility company or a contracted locating service like the one I worked for.
I was responsible for marking up to five different utilities for the entire county and other areas occasionally.
Some of those utilities were a real PIA to locate.
I think that seemed like a crummy job and always felt sorry for those guys.
The details might be a little off but many years ago I saw an army of COX reps try to argue with a backhoe operator over a half an inch. They were hand digging each side of the broken cable and pulling a string between where it was broken. It fed all or part of ORUs TV signal going out to the world and was costing tons of money being down.
Not underground related but I also witnessed a major alarm company kill an entire server room for a car rental company. (Tripped an EPO)
The VP later told me that the 30 min cost the company 3 million. I don’t know if that is true but I’m glad it wasn’t me and I was there to help them get it back up. UPS and Genny were online and they were trying to close normal power to its output via a duplicate set of Kirk interlock keys that should not exist
The VP later told me that the 30 min cost the company 3 million. I don’t know if that is true but I’m glad it wasn’t me and I was there to help them get it back up. UPS and Genny were online and they were trying to close normal power to its output via a duplicate set of Kirk interlock keys that should not exist
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