Hi:
Seems that everywhere I look in our semi-rural county I see these aerael
cables. They are suspected from a steel cable but the interesting thing is
that they seem to have been sent to the linemen as a pre-fab, fixed length
assembly.
Sections are joined by plugging into one end of a cylinder that's about 1'
by 5" diameter. Today the end of each section there is a place where
slack is taken up by turning the cable around a "thimble" which limits the
turning radius to about 4". There are two such "turns" to take up slack
and between the turns there are 3 cable sections.
Don't have pictures as this is something I see where I drive but I don't
want to stop and don't usually bring a camera with with me.
It's been 30 years since I have been in the "telephone business" so I
curious about whats going on.
thanks
- posted 11 years ago