At 11:38 a.m. 3/01/2013, Sam Russell wrote:
I'm sure this looks hilarious, does anyone have pictures of their thrown fibre?
You live a sheltered life and have been denied the goods things.. A good lineman will put a throw line between the two wires you ask for at the top of a pole with great ease. These days a cherry picker seems to be the answer to everything high up. My old throw line finally broke and split. Come to NZNOG-13 and buy me a beer and I'll tell you how it was made. These days I'm a little more elegant and carry a bow and arrow, with fishing line, but its really not as good as a throw line and only really good at blasting through trees. In the old days (before helicopters were cheap to hire), power boards got cables across rivers, gullys and valleys etc using rockets with a draw line. Of course, the drawline was sometimes forgotten, completely by accident, of course. In much the same way it was strange how the 11kV earth sticks kept falling into streams and rivers that had fish in them. Very strange. While a good linesman was amazing, us mere mortals caused much hilarity and rolling around laughing by the gang. Working life used to be so much fun - actually it still is. Leave the office for a day or two and experience Layer 0 engineering..