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re: T-Mobile engineer climbs 125ft up tower to find nest of snakes
Posted on 6/10/17 at 12:01 am to BoostAddict
Posted on 6/10/17 at 12:01 am to BoostAddict
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There's always that guy (you) that doesn't know WTF they're talking about.
By all means, clue me in.
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Posted on 6/10/17 at 12:03 am to matthew25
Well shite... my former neighbor was an engineer for Verizon. A real engineer, not some bullshite title. He did field work... had a damn truck that said Verizon on it and everything.
Posted on 6/10/17 at 12:06 am to CAD703X
Clearly a bird caught a snake and brought it back to its nest to eat. But the snake wasn't dead. It was, however, very pregnant. The snake ate the bird instead, then laid its own eggs in the bird's nest. When all the eggs hatched the baby snakes ate the baby birds and grew up to be the writing pile of serpents you see in the photo.
Posted on 6/10/17 at 12:43 am to CAD703X
Looks like speckled king snakes...harmless
Posted on 6/10/17 at 12:49 am to Bow08tie
quote:I'm a pretty level headed guy when it comes to animals/creatures in the wild - very few give me a moment's concern, but I view all snakes and jellyfish as emissaries of death and pain, and I avoid them as such.
Looks like speckled king snakes...harmless
Posted on 6/10/17 at 2:23 am to CAD703X
How the hell did they all get up there
Posted on 6/10/17 at 3:21 am to Pelican fan99
I was thinking the same thing
Posted on 6/10/17 at 4:18 am to Gorilla Ball
I'm not convinced they are snakes. It looks like some type of braided wire arranged to look like snakes. Viral marketing from T-Mobile maybe?
Think about it. Why would there be a nest of snakes on top of a cell tower? It's asinine.
Think about it. Why would there be a nest of snakes on top of a cell tower? It's asinine.
Posted on 6/10/17 at 4:30 am to BoostAddict
quote:
There's always that guy (you) that doesn't know WTF they're talking about.
Yeah and that guy is you. I climb for a telecommunications company headquartered in BR. Our biggest contracts are with Verizon, AT&T, and the feds. We build and maintain towers in TX,LA,AL,MS,and GA. Our crews literally do all the work on these towers, very rarely do big company employees come out to the sites and when they do it's mostly when a high profile tower is going up or coming down. We interact with OSHA more then the big cell companies. Your neighbor was most likely the guy on the ground checking antennas and fiber optics before we put them up.
Posted on 6/10/17 at 7:03 am to maddog201205
Headless snakes? I zoomed in and can't see any heads or tails. It seems it's just lines and loops of ... cable?
Not sure why this is all over yahoo and other sites this week. It made the rounds years ago. I think I read back then that it was sort of an optical illusion.
Not sure why this is all over yahoo and other sites this week. It made the rounds years ago. I think I read back then that it was sort of an optical illusion.
Posted on 6/10/17 at 7:05 am to CAD703X
Hard to tell but are those king snakes?
Posted on 6/10/17 at 7:25 am to BoostAddict
quote:
There's always that guy (you) that doesn't know WTF they're talking about.
Considering I work for Nokia and the customer account I work is TMO. Chief is for the most part CORRECT.
It would have to take something pretty fricked up for me (RF Engineer LAYER 1 (PHYSICAL LAYER) ) to climb the tower. We subcontract that out on our sites we build for them.
This would have to be an old GSM Tower with no iRET capability, or a complete overhaul into new RF Modules.
We try for the most part to keep the System Modules AND RF Modules on the ground.
We have what are called MHA's or Mast Head Amplifiers to help with power amplification to the Antennas above.
A real good / easy to work with tower will have the SYS/RF Modules in a cabinet on the ground and Antenna Lines run to the top where the actual antennas are.
Since this picture is old I am betting this is either a GSM removal / WCDMA install , Configuration Change, or down BTS (Which from the snakes it wouldn't surprise me.)
Posted on 6/10/17 at 7:26 am to maddog201205
quote:
Yeah and that guy is you. I climb for a telecommunications company headquartered in BR. Our biggest contracts are with Verizon, AT&T, and the feds. We build and maintain towers in TX,LA,AL,MS,and GA. Our crews literally do all the work on these towers, very rarely do big company employees come out to the sites and when they do it's mostly when a high profile tower is going up or coming down. We interact with OSHA more then the big cell companies. Your neighbor was most likely the guy on the ground checking antennas and fiber optics before we put them up.
Posted on 6/10/17 at 7:28 am to CAD703X
That job would have gone undone if that were me
Posted on 6/10/17 at 8:23 am to Hangit
quote:
The thread title and linked article both say engineer.
Possibly they saw it up there by drone and/or the tech saw it and said, "Freaking Heck No!" And the field engineer being the supervisor/manager is responsible for "clearinging the area" and ensuring the safety of those he managed.
Posted on 6/10/17 at 8:28 am to CAD703X
bunch of harmless snakes
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