Inside a High-Stakes Fiber Optic Emergency Repair Mission. Outage 2024: Fire Damage

[@JBWR]

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:25 91st and harper, a look back 01:01 walking out the damage area 05:00 spare cable reels 05:28 beginning prep 10:27 a look inside the damage 14:29 build one case and build them all 15:15 feathering the glass 18:36 outro

[@JasonsLabVideos]

Nice work sir !! Enjoyed this !!

[@JBWR]

@JasonsLabVideos thank you sir!

[@GayleAtNight]

Great info and cool edits! 💯🔥

[@JBWR]

Your far to kind!

[@grabbasmoke7961]

Also, is that your trailer? I remember watching your videos when I wanted to become a Splicer and since then I have gotten my trailer my truck my OTDR my OLTS, my Fujikura 90 R and my Fujikura 90 S. I’ve done everything from feeder cables to underground to Ariel to outages. I haven’t ran into you yet in the field but I know if I do I’m just gonna thank you because you got me in the splicing and you trained me on a lot of stuff before I even started doing it. I had to fake it until I made it when I first came in the field.

[@JBWR]

Wow. Glad to have helped.

[@jeffmoss26]

Good stuff!

[@JBWR]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ziggyc3004]

Underrated

[@JBWR]

Thanks bro!

[@grabbasmoke7961]

Why don’t you wear a facemask to protect you from the fiberglass that floats in the air from when you’re peeling the strength members? They’re obviously floating in the air after you peel the jacket. You know your body does not push out Fiber or fiber glass? Obviously you know that because you have to at one point gotten a a splinter before when splicing. My whole point is over the years that Fiber that you’re inhaling is going to get built up that doesn’t seem healthy.

[@JBWR]

Hey there good buddy! I have a filter that sucks out air particulates for that very reason. I don't carry traditional equipment, and this very comment makes me want to should what I keep in my trailer. Thanks buddy.

[@ЕвгенийФрадкин-о2г]

Tell me please, how do you get orders and how much money do you earn on average per order per day? I am from Russia and work in this field in Israel. It is very interesting to compare prices for work in Israel and the USA. In Israel, as a contractor, on average, 500-550 dollars per day, splicing regular fiber, not ribbon.

[@thenerdnetwork]

I am pretty sure he works on the same ISP's plant as I do, just in a different state. The ISP doesn't have a ton of full time in-house fiber splicers but they have many contracts with many business partners across the U.S. these are prime contractors who have overlapping service areas and the ISP has teams of maintenance supervisors who handle coordination for repairs like this, and project coordinators who handle coordinating design, construction, splicing, headend, and installation for new services. The better your construction company is, the more work you get, period. I don't actually know the entire details of how the prime contractor I work for got their contract, I just know they make a ton of money from it, the ISP handles the supply chain and keeps materials supplied always above minimum levels at our warehouse/yard. We don't do a ton of ribbon over here, but we do do some, but we do mostly loose tube. The ISP has a rate schedule they pay for services, like rolling trucks, flaggers, accessing an enclosure for just splicing and a different rate for adding a cable into it, installing muxes, installing nodes, and fiber splicing. Lower count cables per more per splice, like a 24 ct cable paying a little over $30 per fiber, or higher counts paying less per splice, like a 432 ct paying a little over $27 per fiber. On a 10 hr day splicing new build I limit myself to 216 loose tube fiber splices (we don't have new 432 cts to splice EVERY day or anything). During an outage, I don't stop until all services are restored, regardless of the count of cable, but we have multiple teams of fiber splicers and multiple splicing vehicles. Not sure if he gets paid a salary, hourly, or units, or a combination. I get paid hourly, but its a pretty good hourly rate and many benefits. Sub-contractors tend to "make more" working for themselves, but they have to worry about their own equipment, taxes, healthcare, and everything... but also must worry about having work available for them. I always have work, every single day, so it feels very secure all the time working for a prime contractor.

[@JBWR]

Location. Location. Location. Plenty of elements should be considered when estimating possible earnings for burning glass. Whether its an emergency or not. Are through additional skills required beside prepping and splicing? Is an OTDR required? What was the weather like? Is it a holiday? Is the job during the day or night? I won't discuss my pay, but a good friend of mine earned $2 a splice on a 432ct and another got paid $600 shooting 216ct fiber. Hope this helps.

[@JBWR]

@thenerdnetwork I appreciate your input on the many elements involved in billing and compensation! You have precisely articulated the many factors that not only go into so many things that could complicate the money, but you also highlighted the complexities that could be involved in a "simple" fix. your amazing bro. Thank you.

[@dirtychelu4245]

Woe.. highstakes fiber optics repair mission... that sounds critical... almost like doing foot patrols through a mine field.. your so brave

[@JBWR]

AI came up with the title so I went with it. And if you think about it, it actually was "high stakes" to a degree. If you can't use your phone how can you call the police or maybe check on a love one? Some of the lines I have worked on have been trunk lines for cell towers. Ever walk through a dead zone? Some folks even day trade from their homes , so I imagine minutes matter when money is on the line. Thanks for the comment. LIKE. Share. SUB-scribe.

[@Tsikura]

@@JBWR People like dirtychelu has no idea how important fiber lines are. There has even been fiber cuts in some random person's backyard that takes out communication for a whole city. I'm sure he'd be okay if his ISP took their sweet time fixing his internet.

[@JBWR]

so true!! some guy digging a fence post can literally down a town or even a city!