Not sure how things are done in the "World", but here the local phone company is laying Fiber Optics phone cable. They have always been near the road, on the roadbank. This time they are laying it in the road. They bore under the culverts. Supposed to be 12ft below the bottom of the culvert but I'm doubting that. Anytime they cross a road they also bore. Pedestals are still set on the roadbank.
So, what I end up with is a vibra shank knife mark in the road, just outside the track. At each culvert I also have a 2ft wide 4ft long backhoe hole. 2 per culvert. At each pedestal they backhoe from the ped out to the knife mark.
The crew working in my Township has been very cooperative. The Foreman calls or texts me daily telling where he's working. They set a white flag at each culvert or obstacle they will bore under. Whichever side of the road the flag is on tells me which side the cable will be ran on. They set pink flags where the pedestals are going to be along the route. A double pink flag indicates where they are going to stop.
So he tells me where he's headed a couple days in advance and I roll all my gravel to the opposite side of the road. They go behind the knife with a small dozer using a 6way blade and a hydraulic lifted rigid harrow on the back. That operator does a very good job of busting the chunks of roadbed and tromping the knife mark closed.
Our weather is very dry here now. This is a positive in regards to messing up the roadbed getting their equipment in/out. They can park off the road without damaging ditches or roadbanks. This is a negative in what the vibra shank does to my roadbed.......
So, what I end up with is a vibra shank knife mark in the road, just outside the track. At each culvert I also have a 2ft wide 4ft long backhoe hole. 2 per culvert. At each pedestal they backhoe from the ped out to the knife mark.
The crew working in my Township has been very cooperative. The Foreman calls or texts me daily telling where he's working. They set a white flag at each culvert or obstacle they will bore under. Whichever side of the road the flag is on tells me which side the cable will be ran on. They set pink flags where the pedestals are going to be along the route. A double pink flag indicates where they are going to stop.
So he tells me where he's headed a couple days in advance and I roll all my gravel to the opposite side of the road. They go behind the knife with a small dozer using a 6way blade and a hydraulic lifted rigid harrow on the back. That operator does a very good job of busting the chunks of roadbed and tromping the knife mark closed.
Our weather is very dry here now. This is a positive in regards to messing up the roadbed getting their equipment in/out. They can park off the road without damaging ditches or roadbanks. This is a negative in what the vibra shank does to my roadbed.......