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In this area, and I started in 1965, we always had to wrap up for the day (with buried or underground) by damming the splice, casing, and pressure testing. That was old NY Tel rules.

Sorry misread date on last post.

No problem AJ, postings live forever here.
Welcome aboard. Grab a seat, hang on, and keep reading. And post when you want to. LoL

Ajax is correct, but as jb stated, the Boss was to send out a guy for the next day finish. They couldn't realize that some things you DON'T start at 3 pm, it would have been better to clean the truck or something until quitting time and start the throw fresh in the morning --- it would have not taken all day to do it and re-sleeve. BUT he just couldn't have a crew NOT up in the air. OKAY, BOSS, now what are you going to do? This was not the only "DUH" this boss pulled --- they promoted him to the regional office ---- supposedly he couldn't cause any problems behind a desk.

Ah, well, I sure DON'T miss dealing with people like that.

KLD

Pulp cable, you are right, RIGHT to the customer and CCW to the CO.
When counting Binders in a pulp cable the core was Number 1 and the next layer started with 2 and it was predominitly Green binder in color and counted to CO or Away the next layer also had a predominet Green also and continued counting until all Binders were Id'd & Color Coded. Match group by color code and core tie and start spitten beans and mashen' em,
(B wire connectors) or if it was before that slippen tubes!!
The X-paris were the last to splice before wraping
Top and Ring were matched and tagged at the end splice, of course there were never any transpositions in the binders so it was very easy to tell which group you were looking for tone to set up a talker to start taggin.