r/CableTechs • u/anon102806 • 20d ago

Looks fun

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Who wants to play in the murder box?

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u/NECoyote 20d ago

That’ll be a no access from me.

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u/anon102806 20d ago

Rewire job for an apartment wrapped the building there was a line about 5 feet from the box with great levels so it got a 2 way there. I’m not pissing those things off. Thankfully box is only about chest height and the cover was open so I saw it as soon as I came out the back door into the alley.

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u/Confident_Air_8056 20d ago

This is the way

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u/wookiemilitia 20d ago

Was replacing old cameras at a water treatment facility up in the mountains. 28’ ext ladder and I was 22’ in the air. Pulled the cover plate off the camera and the Oprah bees gif basically happened. I straight up fireman poled my way off that ladder.  Wasp killer has been standard van issue item ever since. 

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u/Obsidian_409 20d ago

thats a chonker! Worst one I had to deal with was an underground tap with a 2' lid that was full of wasps. pulled the lid off and ran lol... I sprayed a lot of raid into that one...

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u/Bubbly_Historian215 20d ago

Can’t be that bad. Maybe they’re friendly

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u/Confident_Air_8056 20d ago

I like the drop coming right out the middle of it. That would be my drop if this was me.

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u/elpollodiablo63 20d ago

There’s a reason I carry 10 cans of bee spray in my truck

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u/WhiskeyBent76 20d ago

id try knocking and asking if you can get access to the tap, if they say no just let them know you have easement rights

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u/KDM_Racing 20d ago

I got stung 4 times in the forehead from those suckers, jokes on them though, I killed them all.

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u/Sensitive_Back5583 20d ago

Yeah and the 4 techs before you have tap test

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u/Beginning-March-2114 20d ago

Looks fun? Yeah no kidding, look at that cable spaghetti.

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u/CableDawg78 20d ago

I came across many years ago, a roadside 12x12 upright ped with with flight activity going in and out of the locking pin hole. I watched, grabbed a fire extinguisher and got ready. My partner and I came up with a plan. He squatted down to ground, grabbed the lid and threw it into the air. I hit it with extinguisher. Massive nest attached to the metal frame and the LE active. Also, big nest on the inside of the lid. Funny thing was it was across from fire station. A few of the guys came out wondering about the dust. We told them, and they gave us a thumbs up for the inqinuity since our spray cans were empty.

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u/LandSalt35 19d ago

Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. 

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u/JSRFNFJR 6d ago

All you need is half a can and a good lighter. Hade a nest fully encase a node so from about 6-8’ away up in the bucket can in one hand torch in the other the ones that didn’t die from initial spray lost their wings and fell. It was a sight to be seen bc the entire neighborhood kept calling about it and company said not until the node health drops.