Old lady in Dayton taught me more about drops than my trainer

Tbh I was running a triple play install in Dayton last spring and this 70 something customer kept watching me fish a line through her crawlspace. She finally said, 'honey, you're fighting the joists, go around the ductwork.' I blew her off and spent 45 more minutes stuck. She handed me a wire coat hanger she'd bent into a hook and I had the line through in 5 minutes flat. Been using that same homemade hook on every hard drop since. Anyone else ever get schooled by a customer who used to do this job back in the day?

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green.noah2mo ago

Hell yeah, never ignore old timers, they've forgotten more than most of us know about running wire.

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wilson.olivia2mo ago

My uncle Frank ran wire in the 70s and he still laughs at how we use those fancy laser levels now. He told me once that he hung a whole damn panel using a wet string and a rock as a plumb bob. Guess which one is still standing forty years later?

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