Re: Outside plant protection, fiber cuts, interwebz down oh noes!

[Andy Ringsmuth <andyring () inebraska com>]

On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Daryl G. Jurbala wrote:

> > 3) From what I understand it's not trivial to raise a manhole  
> > cover. Most likely can't be done by one person. Can they be locked?  
> > Or were the carriers simply relying on obscurity/barrier to entry?
>
>
> Your understanding is incorrect.  I'm an average sized guy and I can  
> pull a manhole cover with one hand on the right tool. It might take  
> 2 hands if it hasn't been opened recently and has lots of pebbles  
> and dirt jammed in around it.  It's like everything else: if you  
> know how to do it, and you have the right tool, it's simple.

Agreed.  Manhole covers are very simple to remove.  I don't even need  
any tools.  I've removed countless manhole covers to retrieve balls,  
frisbees, etc., with nothing more than my bare hands.  It's a pretty  
trivial task.

Think about it.  All anyone would need to do is pull up to the  
manhole, set a few orange cones around it, put on an orange vest and a  
hard hat, and crawl on in with your wire cutters and bolt cutter.   
Guaranteed NO ONE will even question it.


-Andy