Just tried to splice a fiber line on a pole in the rain last Tuesday near Baton Rouge

I was up there trying to get the cleaver to work with wet fingers and the wind kept blowing my jacket up, and after dropping two connectors into a puddle I just taped a trash bag over the splice tray and finished it blind, has anyone else had to rig something dumb like that on a rainy day?

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harper_wells2d ago

Oh man that trash bag idea is actually kind of genius honestly. I remember one time I was trying to swap out a modem on a roof in a drizzle and the customer kept handing me stuff from their garage like a phone book to sit on. I ended up using one of those big plastic lawn bags to make a little tent over the gear and it worked okay until the wind picked up and it flew off into a tree. The modem got a little wet anyway but it still worked, so I think that bag saved it from getting totally soaked. Sometimes you just gotta make it work with what you got, even if it looks ridiculous from the ground.