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Re: Safety Classes

Worked Pittsburgh-Baltimore along railroad ROW back in 1981.  Every Crew had a Railroad Safety man who had the sch'd of all the trains running the track.  When he said get off the tracks, we pulled all equipment off the ROW until the train went by.  We were NOT compensated for such down time...all part of our $3.00 per ft rate.
We were plowing in the fiber at 48 cover...some days averaged 20,000 but on a total job basis...we ran about 14,000 day.   D-4 pre ripped, D8 plowed,  Bore crew our ahead doing road crossing, aerial crew taking over where UG stopped.  Hard part of the job....we didn't have figure 8 trailers back then...all by hand.  We even used backhoe to try to turn the reel.  Might have to dump the entire reel just to make a 60 bore from one side to other....  Oh those were the days...I'd love to do over !!!

Be safe out there....microman
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