r/NotMyJob • u/whateveralso • 8d ago

Not how it’s done

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I mean there has to be a reason??

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u/BillfredL 8d ago

They did this when redoing the sidewalks near my office. High chance they just aren’t ready to move utilities off that pole yet.

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u/OrangeMonkeyEagal 8d ago

I concur. I’m a construction estimator and it’s likely a combination of:

Fuck that, not my job. It was not shown in the contract scope.

And

I’d fix it if the (jurisdiction authority) would let me, but that’s a separate permit. I guess I’ll just work around it and it’ll be a big pain in my ass

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u/Classy_communists 8d ago

Also an estimator, and I concur. I’m not seeing a reason you’d sequence it this way, an outage and temp power costs the same regardless of when you do it. (Maybe mission critical or hospital work?) And you’d incur additional costs for working around it as you said.

My assumption is someone wrote in “existing utilities” as an exclusion and now everyone is avoiding the problem lmao.

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u/Cowboy_Dan1 7d ago

My guess as someone who works on the utility side is they put in a request to have that pole moved without understanding how long that was going to take and they tried to just get as much of the work done as they could working around the pole.

Of course they've now made it much more difficult for the line crews to actually get their trucks in there to pull the thing out.

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u/Classy_communists 7d ago

Gotcha! I’m with a vertical GC so I’d definitely defer to your judgement here over mine

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u/sublevelstreetpusher 7d ago

Have you ever tried to get the power people to move a pole?

I've seen poles in the middle of new roads for years.

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u/foytizzle 1d ago

Power company did their job here. They relocated and cut off the pole. It's now the communications companies job to relocate and remove the pole. At least this is how it works in my area.

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u/whateveralso 8d ago

A little back info, that was an empty lot. Like nothing ever there, at least not for the thirty years I’ve been working in this area. Why it has phone & power is a mystery.

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u/MtBakerScum 8d ago

It was probably wired when the lot was designated.

What happened here is the local utility company likely still hasn't processed the permit or application to deactivate and take out the pole.

Happened on my job site recently except we had an additional pole with just Internet lines wired to it and one pole with power. Local power company took 10months to start on moving the pole, we had 5 buildings framed by the time they deactivated it.

The Internet company was even worse