Brent Philion wrote:

doing a splice 12 feet below street level in a manhole isnt clean and
well lit either let alone repair splices that are in pits that have just
been torn up by a backhoe

Nope, emergency repairs you just deal with what's there. For new
installations though it seems to be the norm to have enough slack on the
cables to do all the splicing in the controlled environment of the
trailer and then tuck everything back into the vault / ped / whatever.

Pete C.