Mysterious spray paint markings on road

[paulsharvey]

They wasted a bunch of money running Spectrum down our road. Made a mess and zero people wanted it. Everyone uses Starlink because it goes out less than the buried lines.

We have T-Mobile home cellular internet, and are more or less fine with it. Comcast, and possibly Cox are eyeing build outs, but I'm divided on if I would want them. There are major trunklines by Unitifiber, ATT, and similar less than 0.5 miles away, but they aren't interested in residential service.

 

[MossRoad]

Fiber is only put about 10 inches down, IIRC. I suspect gas has to be set way deeper than that.

Yeah, you'd think so, but it's flexible gas line and people have hit it around hear just digging a 1' hole. Sliced right through it with a shovel.

In our case, the guy had to run the fiber under the driveway. He had to dig a 8' trench perpendicular to the drive and snake something under to the other side. The other side is where the gas line is. I've seen it before when the gas company moved our meter from inside to outside. It's only about a foot down.

 

[MossRoad]

AAAaaaaaannnnndddddd..... the fiber is down again. Twice in the past two weeks.

 

[paulsharvey]

Yeah, you'd think so, but it's flexible gas line and people have hit it around hear just digging a 1' hole. Sliced right through it with a shovel.

In our case, the guy had to run the fiber under the driveway. He had to dig a 8' trench perpendicular to the drive and snake something under to the other side. The other side is where the gas line is. I've seen it before when the gas company moved our meter from inside to outside. It's only about a foot down.

With what we do, everything is required to be 30" under "green" areas, and 36"+ under roadways. Doesn't mean some things aren't shallower, either do to shady work, or terrian changes over the years.

 

[Oaktree]

They wasted a bunch of money running Spectrum down our road. Made a mess and zero people wanted it. Everyone uses Starlink because it goes out less than the buried lines.

Just the opposite here. When Spectrum (Time-Warner at the time) came thru here in the early teens, probably 80% of the residents on my road signed up. I dropped them earlier this year, not due to any service problems but because Consolidated (regional phone company) offered more speed for less money.
I don't know anyone who uses Starlink, even though they have an uplink point maybe 5 miles from here as the crow flies. Given the price, it's kind of an ISP of last resort.

Gotta say, never thought I'd see the day when I'd have multiple fiber ISPs to choose from. When we moved here in the mid 00s, dial-up or Hughesnet/Wildblue were the only options. Not even any cell service here at the time (well, it's still kinda iffy but usually works).

 

[kenmbz]

Our neighbors verizon fiber and our Comcast copper are all buried alongside driveway.
The were both close to the surface and while repaving got uncovered in many places.
Luckily neither got dug through.
I always thought these were below frost at 18", but since low voltage it was allowed to be less, but I bet these were only 8-9" under or less.

They came by and marked and were off , sometimes by a foot or two, which is a lot when using heavy machinery to level the sides for dumping asphalt!

 

[MossRoad]

I had a friend that was going to put up a 6' privacy fence in his back yard. He called before he dug. They came out and marked his lot and the lot to each side of him. First hole he cut his neighbor's phone line. The marking was off by several feet. The phone company came out and started working on it, so he decided to switch to the other side of the yard.... yep! A couple holes into it and he cut the other neighbor's phone line.

 

[Fixastuff]

Russian invasion code.... at least that's the rumor.

Not invading they were given the mineral rights. lol.

 

[dodge man]

The truth is the OP’s paint markings are directions for the making of crop circles.

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

I'd throw out there it stands for "Tough Ole Coot" lives here.... Someone respects your stances.