Hit 500 feet of coax pulled through a single attic crawl space yesterday

It was in a big old house in Salem, and the path was so tight I had to feed it from the roof vent. The homeowner said they'd never seen anyone get a line to the far bedroom before. Anyone else have a weird record they didn't expect to set?

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harpery473d ago

I saw a forum post from a tech in New Orleans who had to run a line through an old above ground cemetery crypt. The family mausoleum was the only path between two properties and they needed to get a signal across. He said they pulled about 200 feet of cable through a space not much wider than the conduit itself, and it was spooky as hell working around those old marble structures.

nancy8173d ago

Ever hear about the guy who ran cable through a buried storm drain? My buddy had a job where the only path between two buildings was this old concrete pipe full of muddy water... he had to use a fish tape tied to a stick and just kept pushing for what felt like forever. They pulled like 300 feet of direct burial line through a literal sewer pipe. Said it was the grossest, most unlikely run of his life.

ray1363d ago

Read about a crew that had to run fiber through an active grain elevator once. They said the dust was so thick they wore full respirators, and the path went up through a vertical chase that hadn't been opened in decades. Pulled nearly a thousand feet by threading it through existing, old power conduit runs.