Hi Bill
Some engineers are great. Recently one took down 5 lines for us FOC but on
other occasions I have been kept waiting. BT aren't interested if they keep
a gang of 5 men and 3 vehicles waiting.
On a divergence some of the time you can unwind the wire from the pigtail
thing on the subscriber end and get it most of the way shifted. It certainly
makes things easier.
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: <Andersonarb@xxxx.com>
To: "UK Tree Care" <uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: Telephone wires through trees
In a message dated 09/10/2003 17:01:46 GMT Standard Time,
andytree@xxxxxxxx.com writes:
It would be a lot simpler if we could do it ourselves rather than being
at
the mercy of BT engineers, who can be less than reliable at times.
Some of em are great, "I'll put it down as having worn through due to
rubbing
on the branch shall I?" Yeah nice one ta!
They used to say we'll come and put it back up if you knock it down, just
try
not to plese. The cost of taking down was twice the cost of putting back
up
cos they only had to make one visit, the wire costs about 10 pence a
kilometre
or something.
I don't think we've ever paid for one and we've knocked stacks down! I've
also repaired them using sticking plasters and other stuff.
Bill.
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