nova_robotics (Jul 12, 2023), tuchie (Jul 15, 2023)
At the risk of sounding like a DA - What is the work being accomplished here?
They are moving that cable from over there to over here. Ha, just kidding.
That structure just looks like a BIG cable tray, like like you might find hidden in the ceilings of many buildings. Cable has limits in regard to how much tension you can use when pulling them. This is especially critical with fiber optic cable. It is possible that big cable contains thousands of fiber optic strands. If you are making a long pull, if you only pull from the end, it is easy to exceed the that maximum limit.
While I do not know for sure, I am guessing that is an intermediate pulling station. It would allow pulling a longer cable without exceeding the maximum tension limit.
That is my guess.
Altair (Jul 13, 2023), Dollar Bill (Jul 13, 2023), piper184 (Jul 13, 2023)
hemmjo; That is not just your swag, you nailed it. A construction company I do quite a bit of work for has several of the much smaller versions of that machine, theirs also incorporate compressed air to assist in pushing the optic cable through a buried pipe from 1 end while pulling from the opposite end. So far I have rebuilt 2 of their machines, which are a real pain to rebuild, due to the lack of spare parts available from the manufacture who no-longer supports the machines they made after being bought up by a larger corp.
Never try to tell me it can't be done
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