Anyone Ever Cut Their Cable Cord?
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I have this yard-tool. It is kind of a claw that you push onto a weed, then pry the weed up, and it removes the weed and the root. Works really well.
I like it better than chemicals all the time.
So anyways, I am pulling up a weed and the root is fairly stubborn. The thing snaps off. I try again, and it is pulling up the ground horizontally. Im like wow, this is a nice root. Then out comes a severed cable line. fuck. I subscribe to satellite which is cool, but i use Time Warner for internet, which is now out.
Anyone ever do this before? The line seems awfully shallow if you rip it out weeding. WIll a cable company charge for the fix?
I like it better than chemicals all the time.
So anyways, I am pulling up a weed and the root is fairly stubborn. The thing snaps off. I try again, and it is pulling up the ground horizontally. Im like wow, this is a nice root. Then out comes a severed cable line. fuck. I subscribe to satellite which is cool, but i use Time Warner for internet, which is now out.
Anyone ever do this before? The line seems awfully shallow if you rip it out weeding. WIll a cable company charge for the fix?
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i found a cable in my yard. i think it was a comcast cable... i could actually see it on the ground. ended up yanking it out myself since we don't use them.
switched to WOW and they only burried their cable a couple of inchs.
anyways, i would guyess they woudl charge you to fix it. but since it's just a coaxial cable, you could fix it yourself for a few bucks and rebury it...allthough it might be less hassle to let the experts do it.
If you have the tools to strip the cable line and then install new connectors, it's an easy quick fix.
All you'll need is the two rg59/6 connectors, an f81 (coupler) and a little tape or an enclosure to cover the splice when you bury it.
Once it's back together your internet should be back online in a few minutes.
I work for a major cable company in Canada as a network tech...if I had a service call for something like this, I'd take two minutes and fix it for free. It really shouldn't take more than 5 mins. I don't know your cable companies policy though, there may be a minimal charge.
could you get me HBO?
I have that yard tool! The girlfriend laughed at me when I bought it, saying it wouldn't work for shit... best $20 I spent at home depot in a long time!
And yea, you could have ripped your cable... when the AT&T guy setup U-verse to my house, he didn't bury it at all, just ran the cable along a cross brace on the fence... there's several loops of excess cable right at the bottom of the pole, sooner or later I know I'm going to take it out while mowing the lawn... :fp:
just looked at one the other day....$25 bucks at the local home depot....damn chicago tax
and run the new line ...
they don't charge for it.
As far as that tool.... backed hard. It is actually addicting, pulling the weeds out that easily. I bought it for $30 on Amazon, its gone down since.
You start pulling the weeds out.... the entire thing in one neat hunk... and you cant stop. Then you see weeds elsewhere throughout your day and you wish you had your Fiskers weed removing tool to fuck shit up.
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Even if you had called them it might not have done any good. My neighbor called them (though it's called something else here, but I'm assuming it's the same idea) when he was having a hole dug to put up a basketball hoop for his kids. They came out and marked all the utilities, then when the digging got underway there was a 10 ft water spout shooting out of his yard, about 5 feet away from where the water line had been marked. But even though they can be worthless, it does cover your ass from any liability.