[TriLUG] RTP Local cable-pulling company

[Jim Ray]

Hopefully, no heat hurt anyone's feelings. Stan had a great idea with
Scott over at Strategic. Tommy, Kevin and Don at TRM have always done
great work on projects with me. Getting a corporation involved like
theirs or mine entails things like $2,000,000 general aggregate business
liability insurance and $500,000 worker's compensation, all W2 employees
(no friends and family and subs) and a price tag for the turn key
service.

You pay for what you get. I like the best of the best and to leave
behind the rest.

Highwoods Properties would not even let us enter their building without
proper insurance when we did a job back in 2005 in the Leatherwood
Building. So, your mileage may vary.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Wilson [mailto:jerry at innovativeoffice1.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 2:49 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Cc: Jim Ray
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RTP Local cable-pulling company

Hey

I have been enjoying this thread and all the back and forth. One guy do 
it?  Hire a
company to do it? Which company to hire?

How much time involved? Little bit of heat involved in this one. All in 
fun though.

I have an idea that I have not seen suggested. This worked for me a few 
years ago.

Hired a couple of guys that were out of work. They didn't have to know 
how to run
cable as long as there was someone there to supervise. Got all the 
materials and
planned out the installation.(Seems like the planning has already been 
done in this
case.) Then let them do the heavy lifting.

I am working from memory here, but I think it was 25 drops, 4 cables 
each, in a
space like you describe; not completely finished, open walls and 
ceilings. Took
them about 10 hours and I think I paid them $6 - $8 per hour, maybe
$150.00
total.

A friend and I were there to supervise. Didn't need both of us but we 
kept each
other company.

Oh, I think we took them to lunch too. These guys weren't the smartest 
on the planet
but they were a lot of fun. So lunch was worth it in terms of
entertainment.

In one day, all the cables were in place(by code) and what was left was 
to do the
terminations.

It was a compromise between spending too much time and spending too much
money that worked for me. And there are a lot more out of work today 
than there
were then.

Cheers

Jerry Wilson



On 01/08/2010 11:40 AM, Jim Ray wrote:
> I'm starting a new one called "Acebook" to focus on the other end.
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