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#173004 12/31/07 12:34 PM
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Winter that is. Just got my 1st of the season..."AHhh,I just hit a big pipe with my BoB-Cat, Can You come right away and look at it?" Call.

KA-CHING!!

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LOL one of those eh? What were they doing digging with the machine or clearing snow and sheared off a pipe?
I hate those calls as I had one about 3 weeks ago to repair an underground conduit, problem being it was cold wet, muddy and snowing... Good thing I go back to sparky school on the 7'th for 10 weeks where its going to be nice, warm and dry wink

A.D

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Happy New year!

Snow removal! Only a 2" phone riser.Snapped of the LB.
Scheduled phone co for Wed. AM.

No Biggy.

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I was sent last week to one small lot in West Hartford CT, the plow guy took out two out of eight poles in one night.

They had a large loader with the big pusher on it....

[Linked Image from snopusher.com]

......must have been his first day with the big stuff. smile

I also noticed a lot of rubble in the snow piles, sections of torn up fences, crushed shopping carts, curbs.....:D the owner of the plaza is going to flip out come spring and all the damage is exposed. laugh


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Bob Badger
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LOL Bob!,
That things enormous.

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i have repaired few parking lot luminaires post go off from the base.

I dont know why but seems the plow driver used them as target pratice or one of [ beeped ] plyon thing and i did one not too long ago the base is rather meaty base it have 30 inch diamater [3/4 metre ] base with 5 feet [ 1 1/2 metre] deep and koncked half of it off i say WHAT??
the only hevey thing can knock it off either large front end loader or hevey laden plow truck konck them off.

Merci, Marc


Pas de problme,il marche n'est-ce pas?"(No problem, it works doesn't it?)

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Where I am in Maine we've had over 50 inches of snow in the last 4 weeks, 20 inches in the last 3 days. Lots of broken stuff:).

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A number of years ago I had a trouble call for power problems at a small commerical office. When I got there, I found that the 3 phase service was single phased. The power distribution was overhead with cutouts on the pole and an underground run to the transformer on the back side of the building. I called the utility and when he got there he saw an open cutout on the pole and went up in the bucket with his short hot stick to re-fuse it. When he closed it back in, it went off like a shotgun. Come to find out that the snow plow guy had pushed snow up over the pad mount transformer and moved it enough to short out one of the primary conductors.
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Every time the greens keeper at my wife's place digs a hole he seems to hit something. So far he has a 1" water line, the circuits to the 120v landscape lights (several times) and a fiber and that is only the six months she has been the manager there.


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I guess he does not know who to call for a locate prior to digging


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