On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:56:25PM -0600, Brian Lanning wrote:
I'm also reminded of the time I was working at
IBM. The power went
out for our entire office building. We looked out the window and
could follow the line of orange flags a couple hundred feet to a
backhoe. I guess even when you mark where the wires are, that's no
guarantee.
No, that doesn't help protect them. One of the jokes around backhoes
magic ability to find wires/fibres:
Always carry a short length of fibre-optic cable. If you get lost, then
you can drop it on the ground, wait ten minutes, and ask the backhoe
operator how to get back to civilization. -- Mike Andrews in NANAE
Regards,
Alex.
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