It looks like a freeze problem. But I did repair an outage today where a cable was shot mid-span. This is the third gunshot to a cable that I have repaired this year. The amount of effort some folks put into shooting a cable mid-span is beyond me, but it definitely puts some money in the bank at Christmas time.
bro. I have a theory. Contractors were in the case, and they didn't hang it correctly. Some slack got snagged yanking the case into the street, shattering the case. Love your mess bro. I've seen this sort of madness all too often.
Just my opinion but doesn't look like gun shot damage at all. It is possible ice damage as those are known to fill up with water and freeze but the damage usually wouldn't be so concentrated like that. I believe it knocked/dropped to the ground and broke the case during the pole replacement and just left there to hang for a long time. You can see the salt film build up from the street inside the box.
My guess is that something over height or something that caused the fibers to sag low MVA somewhere else and caused the strands to start bouncing at the right time that something was pulling into that parking lot. Ripped it off the messenger wire smashed it to the ground. As a former utility arborist, I've clipped my share of communication wires driving down the road in a 12'9 bucket when everything is supposed to be at least 14/6 in the air, especially when you have storm and wires down somewhere else. It does weird things to the tension and sag in lines
Hey there, with my experience as a maintenance tech for Metronet, who is sadly intertwined with windstream since we spun ourselves off then sold them our old parent company and sister divisions, i have a good guess at what happened. Those 3M fiberlok enclosures are absolutely shit at keeping water out. So it most likely filled up with water and then froze. I'm also going to assume that, like here, it is adss so it was probably only hung up with ty wraps that broke due to the weight of the water then fell cracking it open like an egg. Speaking from experience we once had an entire 48ct C Route, what we name longhaul, cut in half for a whole week but since windstream owns the stubs and equipment at the ilec COs which barrs us from entry to the COs, we didn't even know it was cut because we don't have active circuits on it. If I recall, it was Duke that ended up doing their own troubleshooting and getting ahold of us directly to let us know that our cable was cut since windstream was taking too long to troubleshoot or notify us. The main reason I remember that outage is one of the small local independents has their backhaul on it, and we were shocked when they told us they were down for a whole week. Anyways, this is just my opinion as a salty MT, lol.
Could the case just have fallen off the strand and cracked on the ground? bit of a mystery though, has to be something violent to pull those fibres out and mess it up.
Windstream's company culture must be a lot like the the place I work for lol. Management is probably so obsessed with profit from new customers they couldn't give a damn about repairs for existing ones. They also likely don't pay high enough wages to attract technicians that know what their doing or inspire the ones that know what they're doing to care
I wonder if you just fix it for em even though you're doing them a favor if it would be better for everyone. it's absolutely not something you should have to do but if it fixes the problem then they don't have any room to whine
If the case fell because of delashing: maybe a fire crew or something picked the case up snd taped it to the pole. Millions of theories, truth somewhere in between.
Just got hired at Verizon as a splice service technician. Happy I found your vids!
It looks like a freeze problem. But I did repair an outage today where a cable was shot mid-span. This is the third gunshot to a cable that I have repaired this year. The amount of effort some folks put into shooting a cable mid-span is beyond me, but it definitely puts some money in the bank at Christmas time.
bro. I have a theory. Contractors were in the case, and they didn't hang it correctly. Some slack got snagged yanking the case into the street, shattering the case. Love your mess bro. I've seen this sort of madness all too often.
It's those mystery drones. I personally witnessed one of them firing a torpedo at the splice case.
Good for you, you have multiple uptreams.
Down for 45 seconds sounds like you need to configure BFD?
Please tell me what you think happened to the case. I drive by this almost everyday and I don't have a great answer.
Just my opinion but doesn't look like gun shot damage at all. It is possible ice damage as those are known to fill up with water and freeze but the damage usually wouldn't be so concentrated like that. I believe it knocked/dropped to the ground and broke the case during the pole replacement and just left there to hang for a long time. You can see the salt film build up from the street inside the box.
trust me bro. it ain't been shot and ice doesn't explode under normal conditions. My question though, was there broken lashing wire?🙃
Or somebody backed into it. But that assumes that it was not damaged when it was put on the pool sideways.
My guess is that something over height or something that caused the fibers to sag low MVA somewhere else and caused the strands to start bouncing at the right time that something was pulling into that parking lot. Ripped it off the messenger wire smashed it to the ground.
As a former utility arborist, I've clipped my share of communication wires driving down the road in a 12'9 bucket when everything is supposed to be at least 14/6 in the air, especially when you have storm and wires down somewhere else. It does weird things to the tension and sag in lines
Hey there, with my experience as a maintenance tech for Metronet, who is sadly intertwined with windstream since we spun ourselves off then sold them our old parent company and sister divisions, i have a good guess at what happened. Those 3M fiberlok enclosures are absolutely shit at keeping water out. So it most likely filled up with water and then froze. I'm also going to assume that, like here, it is adss so it was probably only hung up with ty wraps that broke due to the weight of the water then fell cracking it open like an egg. Speaking from experience we once had an entire 48ct C Route, what we name longhaul, cut in half for a whole week but since windstream owns the stubs and equipment at the ilec COs which barrs us from entry to the COs, we didn't even know it was cut because we don't have active circuits on it. If I recall, it was Duke that ended up doing their own troubleshooting and getting ahold of us directly to let us know that our cable was cut since windstream was taking too long to troubleshoot or notify us. The main reason I remember that outage is one of the small local independents has their backhaul on it, and we were shocked when they told us they were down for a whole week. Anyways, this is just my opinion as a salty MT, lol.
Could the case just have fallen off the strand and cracked on the ground? bit of a mystery though, has to be something violent to pull those fibres out and mess it up.
Windstream's company culture must be a lot like the the place I work for lol. Management is probably so obsessed with profit from new customers they couldn't give a damn about repairs for existing ones. They also likely don't pay high enough wages to attract technicians that know what their doing or inspire the ones that know what they're doing to care
I wonder if you just fix it for em even though you're doing them a favor if it would be better for everyone. it's absolutely not something you should have to do but if it fixes the problem then they don't have any room to whine
Maybe a construction or snow clearing equipment hit it last winter?
Time for a garbage bag tape jobby STAT!
BAHAHAHAHAHAABAHA
I CALLED IT with the bag. 🤜🤛
Just fix it and Send them a 10x the Costa bill
Windstream!
They're treating it like copper infrastructure duct tape a garbage bag around it done.
fixit and send them the bill.
If the case fell because of delashing: maybe a fire crew or something picked the case up snd taped it to the pole.
Millions of theories, truth somewhere in between.
Fire carries electrical tape now... The narratives ameritards create to justify their existence...
Maybe a tweaker was doing tweaker things