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Default Underground phone line cut to house

Jim Redelfs wrote:

In article
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Pat wrote:

For you, the OP, and everyone else -- don't forget to put down the
safety tape before you fill the trench back in.


Safety tape? For (low voltage) communication cable? That's new.
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JR


Safety to protect the cable, not the person digging. Bury cable deep,
bury safety tape shallow so it hopefully gets dug up and noticed before
the cable gets hit.