[AT] OT: Thank you Farmer

[Mark Greer]

They bury 'em the same way around here. The first three years I was married
we lived on a farm owned by my wife's family. My father-in-law chisel plowed
the field in front of the house each spring after they applied manure and
tore out the phone line each spring. The knuckleheads from the phone company
had installed the phone line in a straight line from the pole out at the
road back across the field to the house about 8" deep. That chisel plow will
easily dig 12" in soft ground so you can see where the problem lies. After
the third year this happened, I was at home when they came out to repair the
line and insisted they bring the line down the road to the driveway and back
to the front yard along the drive and then straight across the yard to the
house. The line hasn't been plowed up again since then.
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
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Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 10:20 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] OT: Thank you Farmer


> Buried phone lines in this neck of the woods get nothing of that sort of
> treatment.  They're rarely more than six inches down, and are installed
> with just a vibrating plow.  It cuts a slit in the ground that heals
> over within a couple of weeks.  About the only restriction the phone
> company uses here is that they demand to be the LAST utility to be
> installed.  That way, there's less likelihood that some other utility
> will cut through them.
>
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> DAVIESW739 at aol.com
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 1:00 AM
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>
> In a message dated 8/12/2004 10:39:08 PM Pacific  Daylight Time,
> drupert at premier1.net writes:
> Like I said this is just a guess  and may not at all be the reason why
> the
> second ground rod is now required  -
>
> Dudley
> Snohomish, Washington
>
> Sell ground rod  dudley.
>
> Tell me why they can't put the same dirt back in the ditch after  laying
>
> telephone wire in it. They are required to use gravel and pack it in.
> the  ditch
> is 1 ft. wide and 3 feet deep and is in the bar ditch along side of the
> road.
> So what does the gravel do, you guessed it sells gravel.   anytime you
> come
> across some dumb law think about what big company is making  money on
> the deal.
>
> Walt Davies
> Cooper Hollow Farm
> Monmouth, OR  97361
> 503 623-0460
>
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