Project Recap/ we finally finished installing pipe for fiber optics #4

[@JJFlores197]

Cool stuff! I just got fiber installed in my neighborhood about 5 months ago. I'm not familiar with the terminology, but I had noticed numerous of those squares (7:50) throughout or street. I found it funny when I found a traffic cone that was placed upside down in one of the holes they made between our mailboxes. But they came back within a day or so and got everything all patched up.

[@TheEvilWarlordZarcotimas]

Never seen that type of housing with no threads for the tri hawk. Is it pretty firm when trying to rock and steer or a little loose? Curious to know because I like how easy it looks to change different bit types.

[@lifeasweknowit5280]

It’s stiff, no play really between the housing and the adapter for the bit.

[@nmopzzz]

How do you bill something like this? Was it a fixed price quote or what?

[@xxxallenbigalexxx]

I came here to post the same question- there's so many variables that would make or sink the business! How is line of work billed?

[@fernandoprieto2865]

does this work require permits?

[@lifeasweknowit5280]

Yes it does .

[@nspro931]

How did you charge the customer for all the extra work?

[@lifeasweknowit5280]

We knew it was going to be a hard one so we charged the customer accordingly.

[@nspro931]

@@lifeasweknowit5280 Bid ahead of time or was it added to the price as it got worse?

[@lifeasweknowit5280]

No we had the price set before hand. The area is known for being a hard place to drill so we made sure to get enough before we started. Not all projects work out that way.

[@nspro931]

@@lifeasweknowit5280 That must be nerve wracking until the job is done and the costs analyzed.

[@lifeasweknowit5280]

Yeah it can be stressful.

[@N3szt0r]

Those teeth were toasted while installing. Man why do you hit the top with hammer? It has a vidia point. Which cracked with first two stroke. After next to nothing operation the vidia insert fall out and left the hard steel them self. Get a guy with lathe and make a proper reverse cone shaped install tool. cheers

[@N3szt0r]

l live the other side of the word. I know you have most of wood housing. Here is everything stone or concrete. So it is well know here. However I have couple of friends, who are working tumbstones. They are properly hard. Nothing scratch it, except vidia. Saidly only a handful old tool-blacksmith left. They basicly died out.

[@lifeasweknowit5280]

Someone suggested using a brass hammer to install the teeth. I might have to try both.

[@btschmieds]

Is rock always that big of a pain in the butt?

[@lifeasweknowit5280]

It depends on the type of rock but it’s usually a pain.

[@suzylarry1]

some days it goes , some days it comes back to you ....then other times is so soft you need MUD ! can't win them all tough old stone ! losing coffee money changing those carbide teeth

[@lifeasweknowit5280]

Truth! Ha ha