According to Brent Philion :
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

How about ones where the buried fiber optic cable was hit by a
powered posthole auger? This happened during some new construction at
where I used to work.

The contractor was told to dig all of the postholes in a
specific area by hand, because of the buried cables. He dug the first
three that way, and when the supervisor went elsewhere, he got out the
auger and started drilling. The first hole, he pulled it back out and
said "What is all this orange junk wound up in the auger?" It took
quite a bit of work to track those back to where the breaks were, dig
them up, and re splice them.

Needless to say -- he did *not* make a profit on that job. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.
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