[Ma-linux] FIOS, was Verizon Payment Frustration

[David]

On 1/23/12 10:26 AM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:

>    The 'push' machines are pretty singular---you must have seen them on
> the road; they look like a trailer with a not-quite-horizontal stack of
> tubes, and a mechanism to push the tubes underground, helped by pumped
> water (so there's a tanker truck nearby when they're working). They can
> push the tubes underground for about 50-100 yards. Hilarity ensues when
> they hit something else while pushing---there was a sad dugout in my
> neighbourhood where they hit  a junction box with hundreds of phone
> wires and had FIOS and landline people work on fixing it for several weeks.
>

Note there's a large aircompressor or hydraulic power unit involved as well.

And not all rammers are truck-mounted. A friend in the boonies of southern 
MD is getting FIOS installed. It's quite rural. There, they are using 
pneumatic rammers that are a few feet long, with extensions added as they 
go; they put the whole cylinder into the hole, and lever a shovel against 
it to force it along.