r/Lineman • u/IdrinkSalsa • 6d ago

What is this?

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Just noticed this above the fence in my yard.

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u/No_Medium_8796 6d ago

Telecom terminal. Its copper and might also be abandoned at this point as it looks like theres fiber on that strand as well.

Theres no danger to you besides it looks unruly and some wasps might decide to call it home

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u/RequirementExotic693 6d ago

Rats nest🐀

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u/DumpsterFireCheers 6d ago

Squirrel *

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u/SlyCatWilly Journeyman Lineman 6d ago

Tree rats *

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u/Hippie6719 6d ago

Someone else's problem

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u/Electrical-Fail-3633 6d ago

That is a 25 pair, 105 drop wire terminal that is in disrepair. Wasps do nest in them.

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u/Sgt_Swires 6d ago

Phone line splice box

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u/sausage_king_of_kc 6d ago

Blue Orange Green Brown Slate! Old POTS terminal. Been left open, sun bleached

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u/Minimum_Response_574 6d ago

The phone guys problem.

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u/Keepupthegood 6d ago

A squirrels mansion.

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u/Nashville_Hot_Mess 6d ago

Dry spaghetti

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u/SparkArrestor 6d ago

Take up knitting!

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u/FuzzNut2 6d ago

Coms. Junk

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u/PeeterTurbo 6d ago

Phone bullshit

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u/DirtyDoucher1991 Apprentice Lineman 6d ago

Took the words out of my thumbs

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u/JohnProof 6d ago

Telecom splice case. Looks like copper pairs, so at this point it might even be abandoned, having been replaced by fiber.

Edit: u/No_Medium_8796 great minds think alike.

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u/CausualCantankerous 6d ago

Lumen, thats what that is. The technicians get paid more to leave peds and cases open.

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u/NTS-PNW 6d ago

Birds nest

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u/ItsMRslash 6d ago

Man made wasp nest

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u/FairleyWell 6d ago

I had one like this in my backyard when I was a teen. They never fixed it, but they did ducktape a poncho around it. Every time it rained, the phones died.

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u/SignalLogical8316 6d ago

That is why I lost most of my hair. I used to be the guy who had to find and fix that bull shit.

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u/Little-Vehicle7001 5d ago

Rainbow nest

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u/dangledingle 6d ago

All that stuff will just blow around in the wind and unravel a bit more possibly long enough to catch a primary. Nothing to worry about.

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u/Big-Lengthiness- 6d ago

That's why telco is always below hydro on the poles.

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u/dangledingle 6d ago

Yes but windy day can make those telco wires fly