Funniest Install in Wireless Service Providers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r17405633 en Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:03:16 EDT Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:03:16 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17446303 Chele : I use a '94 green Volvo station wagon. My 17' Little Giant knock-off fits just fine inside, across the back along with all my tools. On occasion, rarely, I carry a 27' extension ladder on the top rack. My wife wants me to get a truck because, according to her, my wagon doesn't look very professional! It's fun to drive and not too bad on gas.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17446303 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:13:26 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17445894 Airplane777 : Thats neat that you can use your Corolla.

I have been thinking of getting rid of my van due to the lousy gas mileage.

That neat ladder just may be the ticket to helping me use a smaller vehicle.

Thanks for that info.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17445894 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:13:49 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17445613 rb384997 : Got a call from a customer in town. My internet isn't working.
We try to log into their radio, no dice. Roll the van and it turns out The Town fair was going on and a farris wheel was blocking site to the tower. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17445613 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:27:30 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17430625 Beebe : It just collapsed that one time. I have been very careful to notice that the catches lock in place every time I have extended it ever since. This one is fairly old, so with a new one you probably wouldn't even have to worry about it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17430625 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:55:12 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17430414 sbrown : I have the 17foot version of that folding ladder. It is great - I can do installs with my Corolla!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17430414 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:05:20 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17429958 gpilot : Funny that we have a couple of clients with hot daughters (college age) and so instead of "client on xxx road" its reffered to the one "you know the hot chick on xxx road"

No naked people though!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17429958 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:27:04 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17428895 skylabpc : heres a source for the Telestep brand telescoping ladders

»www.rewci.com/tellad.html]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17428895 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:57:00 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17426952 Airplane777 : Do you have problems with the sections collapsing when you are on the ladder? You mentioned that one of the sections collapsed that one time.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17426952 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:56:31 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17426906 mrbueno : Nekid people have been seen not by me but by employees. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17426906 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:46:40 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17426736 ais :
said by Beebe See Profile :

That looks like the one I have. It's great!
Great... thanks for the reply. I don't have a ladder rack on my pick up to carry ext ladder all the time. I thought this would be nice to keep in the back and not carry the big one around all the time.

Thanks for the reply Beebe. I think i will be picking one up. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17426736 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:56:59 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17426612 Beebe : That looks like the one I have. It's great!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17426612 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:17:07 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17425141 ais : Here is the one from Home depot

»www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN···00340920

Does anyone have one of these? and do you like it? The only drawback i see, only goes to 13'

thanks all for the ladder info]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17425141 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:28:48 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17420785 dgilbert : a few years back we were contracted to go remove equipment from a tower. the tower owner had built him a nice hunting lodge next to the site building. he used it as a hide away to take his rather young girlfriends so that his wife would not know where they were. every time i talked to him he stressed to me to always lock the gate, even when i was at the tower. you could not see the buildings from the road, so i just assumed he wanted to keep out local kids.

anyway, it was me and 4 tower monkeys on site. the owner pulls up and goes in the cabin with a gorgeous early 20's girl that was shal we say rather well endowed up top! we were there for a couple hours removing the antennas. one guy was still on the tower and me and the other 3 wear rolling up the 1 1/4" line. one of the guys just stopped and stood there and caused us to drop the liine on its side. we turned around to see what he was looking at, and here comes the girl out of the house, nothing on but a pair of really tight short shorts! she looked at us, smiled, got her bag out of the truck next to us, and walked back in. the owner came out shortly thereafter with a big grin on face. seems they had been in the hot tub shooting tequilla when she decided she just had to go get her phone out of her purse. in reality, she wanted to show of her endowment that he had purchased for her just a few weeks before!

he went back inside, and we got back to work. the guy on the tower NEVER even saw what happened.

the funniest part of it all, when the owner went to leave, his wife was sitting at the gate waiting on him. from a hundred yards a way we could hear her tearing him a new one!
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said by PersComp See Profile :

»www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=p···age=none

The one I have is similar to this, but it only goes to 17'. I got it from Costco for $100. We use it for most of our installs.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17420542 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:35:39 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17420370 PersComp : OK, not sure if this qualifies as funny or just a little on the gross side....

One of my subs has about 5 dogs that live inside. When I got there for the installation, there was no nasty smell or anything, but you could tell that the dogs lived inside. When I went to hook up her PC, I knelt down near her desk. Suddenly my right knee was cold and wet! :mad: It took my brain about 1 second to realize I had just knelt in dog pee! I tried to block out the fact that I now was wearing pants that had been pee'd in and it wasn't even my pee! Of course, I wasn't able to return home for a couple of hours. But when I did get home, my suspiscions were confirmed as soon as my 2 dogs got near. They immediately started sniffing my knees and would not go away. I was in the shower about 5 seconds later.....

Now for the ladder subject.... This ladder is awesome. It is a little pricy, but the wide base makes it more stable than any ladder I have ever been on. It has a 300lb rating (I'm about 210, so carrying anything with me probably would cause me to exceed the rating on the 225lb ladders). The only drawback is that is a little heavy (I don't see the weight listed in the specs, but probably 50lbs or so).

»www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=p···age=none

Now back to our regularly scheduled funny installations... :p
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I remember that story superdog See Profile ;)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17419043 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:39:18 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17419034 milbrath : I've done about 200 installs and can't think of one funny story. No nekid chicks, nothin.

Had some painful moments with a ladder. Smashed my finger nail clear off at 75 feet with a hammer(darn U bolt would not give me the yagi back). Got stuck under a house AC system for about 20 minutes(at least thats how long it took to wiggle my way free).Favorite one, Got bit pretty bad by a dog and then yelled at by it's owner because I obviously must have upset that dog! I guess that one could classify as funny.

Well those are the ones I remember. I guess there was nothing special about the rest.

BM]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17419034 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:37:06 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17418979 Airplane777 : Is the collapsing of a section or two of the ladder a safety problem with that ladder? That might worry me.

Other then that, the ladder looks pretty neat.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17418979 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:28:00 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17418895 Beebe : Adding to the "Funniest Install" thread, I was once climbing this same ladder to get on a roof, and my phone rang. It was actually the guy who gave me the ladder. So I answered the phone and continued on up the ladder. It was extended up to full height, and It only just reached the roof of this particular house. I was just about to climb off it onto the roof and one of the sections collapsed. This made the ladder lower than the height of the roof, so it started to fall over. One of my legs went through a rung on the ladder and the other leg didn't. I didn't sacrifice my balls fortunately, I just bruised the back of my leg slightly. Anyway, there was a porch there, so there was no wall for the ladder to fall against, it just fell over. I found myself sitting on the ground after a 12' fall and still talking on the phone to the guy as if nothing had happened. I told him I'd just fallen off a ladder, but he didn't take much notice and just kept talking.

Another time my grandfather was on a ladder. He was like 72 at the time. the ladder was leaning against a 4x4 post, and he was leaning out to one side. The ladder slipped off the post and he started to go down. I was fairly close by and I jumped to try and take some of the shock of him landing, but got there too late and basically fell on top of him. Anyway he said he didn't want me telling anyone he fell of that ladder. He said "I rode that thing all the way to the ground".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17418895 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:15:53 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17418829 Beebe : It's not a little giant. Not sure what brand it is but I've seen several similar ones. A friend gave it to me because he got a new one. It's made of aluminum, pretty light and easy to carry under on arm. Not at all bulky. It looks very simlar to this one:

»cgi.ebay.com/NEW-XTEND-CLIMB-780···62999593]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17418829 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:06:28 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17413793 Airplane777 : Beebe:

Is that one of the Little Giant ladders?

How heavy is your ladder? Is that the one that extends 12.5 feet?

I might want to get one.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17413793 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:33:39 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17413677 Beebe : Everyone who sees the ladder comments on it and wants to keep it. It's really handy and it'll get me on 95% of roofs around here. Most houses are single storey. Collapses to around 3' long. Handy for carrying inside the house too if needed to get into the attic.

It's the only ladder I carry around with me unless there's a special need for a longer one.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17413677 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:10:42 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17411600 battleop : We have a work van and truck we use that we carry an assortment of ladders on. Often we take the boss's Outback because it's a heck of a lot cheaper on gas. He has one of the gorilla ladders in it that can stretch out to about 20 feet. This works great at almost every customer we have (we don't do residential wireless) except a few but most of the ones with roofs over 20 feet have roof hatches.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17411600 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:22:16 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17410121 Airplane777 : Sounds like that is a new clause to add in your TOS. That is, you are not responsible for critters on the customers property that cause harm to your equipment. The TOS should say that the customer pays for the truck roll and repairs.

Thats strange convoluted thinking on the part of the customer, that the squirrels are your problem.

I like your method for getting rid of them. I'll have to try that method to help my wife out. She has agressive squirrels that run around and scare her every once in a while at her tea house.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17410121 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:30:26 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17407872 Chele : We use a Little Giant knock-off we bought at Costco for $100. It goes to 17' and folds and collapses to about 4.5'. We use these puppy for about 98% of our installs.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17407872 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:08:51 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17407794 ais :
said by Beebe See Profile :

So I got there and my telescoping ladder was 12.5' tall.

Sorry to get off subject..... I seen these telescoping ladders at home depot for $190 or so. They looked handy and not as bulky as ext ladder. I thought I better not start climbing racks in Home Depot to give it a test drive. After having flash backs of my last episode using the H.D. emp ladder to get something down up high a few weeks earlier. The home depot emp informed me I was not qualified to use the ladder... "OK ... I understand" Does any one else use these telescoping ladders? I guess if anyone has some feedback on them would be great and could save me from getting yelled at in the Orange store doing a test drive. I just did not want to spend $200 on a ladder I use once.

Thanks]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17407794 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:55:53 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17407418 mrbueno : Bill him! You provided a service. Bill him. If he doesn't pay, take him to court. The only problem here is you are not a licensed exterminator.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17407418 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:48:04 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17407245 korym : Sounds like some stories for "All in a Day's Work" with Reader's Digest. You could get $300 if they're published. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17407245 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:07:41 EDT Re: Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17407196 superdog : I receive a phone call from one of our customers who says, "I can't get on the internet?". I go into SNMP and the NMS we use, and I can see that the radio(wireless to ethernet converter) does not respond to a ping etc. I fire up the service truck and drive to the customers house, and when I get there, the customer and all of his neighbors are outside with brooms. I ask them what they are doing, and they reply"Chasing squirrels". I pay no mind and climb up on the roof to see what the deal is. I see that the shielded CAT5 cable was chewed thru completely, obviously by a small critter. As it turns out, there is a freakin' gaggle of squirrels living in the customers attic. The customer then decides that it is my responsibility to repair the cable AND remove the squirrels so that it doesn't happen again. As I am replacing the CAT5, one of the squirrels becomes aggressive, and decides that I am a little to close to it's home and starts to chatter and hiss at me while running back and forth on the ridge of the roof. At this point, one of the neighbors must have felt that this "killer squirrel" was going to do some serious harm to me, and he starts shooting at it with a pellet gun!, well needless to say, I got off the roof and in my truck and left, while I was still alive to do so!. I came back on Monday morning only to find that the squirrels chewed through the new cable too. I got really PO'ed and got some rat poison and mixed it with peanut butter. It did the job, and all of the critters were now in squirrel heaven. I repaired the CAT5 and all was good, until about a week later my truck started to stink with this un-godly smell?. As it turned out, while I was on the roof, the customer took all the dead squirrels and threw them on my truck "under" the big toolbox. When I called him up, his comment was, "Well what did You expect me to do with them?, they were Your problem, NOT MINE!"
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1. Try and have a second person for hoisting things onto roofs

2. GET A BIGGER LADDER
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Anyway, turned out not to be a problem.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17405645 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:20:19 EDT Funniest Install http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17405633 Beebe : I was doing an install today, not for a wireless subscriber per say, but I'm building a wireless network for a company. Anyway, I had installed a 900mhz rootenna on a satelite mount for them (I'm shooting through some trees). It had a WAR board in it with an SR9 card. Anyway, for some reason I wasn't getting enough signal for decent throughput, so I decided I would raise it up by putting it on a tripod with 10' pole. But that's not quite so straight forward because it was a slightly sloping metal roof.

So I got there and my telescoping ladder was 12.5' tall. The roof was about 15' tall to the first level, and then another 6' to the second level. But there was a tree right there. So I could climb my ladder, and then climb a few very bendy tree limbs and get on the 1st roof. Then I could climb a couple of even more flexible limbs and get on the 2nd roof where my gear was mounted.

So my idea was to place 3 4x16x16 concrete pads on the roof and screw the tripod to the concrete so that I didn't have to penetrate the roof.

So now I have to transport a drill, tripod, pole, concrete anchors, screwdriver, crimping tool, wrench and 3 solid concrete blocks up a tree.

Fortunately I had some rope with me. Unfortunately it was rather small diameter. Plenty strong enough to hold the weight of a concrete pad, but very difficult to get a good grip on. So I tied it around the first block and took the loose end and started climbing the ladder and the tree. I got onto the roof. There was a ledge where I could stand with one foot, stand on the edge of the roof with the other foot, and put my back against a tree limb. So I was standing directly above where my ladder was. Then I could pull the concrete pad up with the rope. I tried lifting the pad with one hand and I couldn't get enough of a grip on the rope to hold it's weight. With both hands I could. So I had to lift with enough momentum so that I could let go with one hand and re-grab the rope lower down before having to take the whole weight of it again. I heaved it up to the first roof, climbed the tree a bit more and got ready to pull some more. The second time I stood on a really bendy branch with one foot and the second roof with the other. Heave, heave heave, and we're up...

Anyway, I managed to get them all up there and it's mounted and I did improve the signal quite a bit. I'm getting around 76db now and about 10Mbps throughput in 802.11b mode with atheros extensions. And it's only mounted half way up the 10' pole. Maybe if I raise it more I could get enough signal for a decent 802.11g mode. I'd like to get 30mbps.

Will try some more tomorrow.

Thanks,
Roger]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17405633 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:17:52 EDT