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What do you guys and gals think about moving a telco pedistal? Illegal, what they don't know wont hurt them, has anyone one moved one before without permission?

first question would be why ?

if it needs to be moved why not let them do it ?

Doesn't sound like a good idea to me

I wouldn't, and I use to move them all the time when employed by Bell.

No point in setting yourself up for legal trouble. Contact the LEC and have them do it.

Ditto to all the above

Bad idea. You don’t know what circuits are working in the cable. You could end up causing problems for someone else’s service if you do any splicing. It has been my experience that pedestals are usually placed on the property line and at the edge of the right-of-way.

Why do you need to move it? Let the LEC move it. It belongs to them. It could be cheaper in the long run.

would you wnat someone to move your phone system?

There's your answer!

I believe its a federal offense if they were to press charges.

Reminds me of a funny story. I was working on a building where they replaced the individual aerial drops with a 100 pair terminal. They also had a contractor there applying stucco to the outside of the building and so they removed the attachment for old drops and just left them hanging out by the pole. Because they were on the sidewalk I was concerned so I cut the drops off up as high as I could reach. A couple were midspanned so they were hanging down over the driveway.

Now, there was also a brand new crossbox on that pole. The stub wasn't even connected yet, that was just hanging out too.

Just up the road I see some of Verizon's finest with a bucket truck. Rather than get my ladder and do something I'm not supposed to I walk up and ask the Verizon guys if they would cut those hanging drops down. They take a look and see the cut drops and the stub and deduce that I cut everything. I decide to play along with these rocket scientists. I say that it was in the way and wudya mean I can't remove that stuff. Then they start saying how its a federal offense. I then tell them that's a new crossbox and those drops are not working. DUH!


-Hal

Request the Phone Company do it. They may very well have an undertaking on file to do that very things you won't know unless you ask. Moving their PED may cause untold amounts of problems for you.The legal ones will probably be the most bothersome. Call the local office and see if you can have a one on one with the engineer. Alof of these guys are real decent and I personally have seen them bend over backwards for customers that are polite.

Good luck!

I agree with all the above.

Moving a pedestal is a bad idea. It is a federal offense to do it. Also if you do move it and knock out some other customers then bell will come after you for the cost of fixing the other cusotmers. Call the engineer as previosly suggested. They should meet you onsite and set everything up.