It looks like they plan on cutting up the yard to lay fiber optic lines in our neighborhood. I just nuked my entire front lawn and started from scratch a year and a half ago. If I were to cut about 4-6” deep and remove the grass and store it in the garage keeping it moist, how long until it dies before I can put it back when they are done? I assume it’s a crazy question cause the right answer is probably just relevel and reseed in the fall. Also I don’t even know if I have the option to remove the strip myself. Grass is MVS 365SS if that plays a part.
by gs2020
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I wouldnt keep it in the garage, it needs some sun. I would hope for the best and expect the worst. Maybe call and see if you can get an estimate of when theyre doing the job and extract it the night before? Also if you get an extra helpful person they can tell you the width and path of the cut so you can properly do it?
Those are directional markers of where they’re going to use a ditch witch (or similar machine) to tunnel their way under your lawn. You might be the unlucky house where they choose to dig the initial hole so you may have a hole with say a 3-5ft radius but since you got hit with direction flags it’s unlikely.
Don’t go dig in the right of way brother. If you hit something it’s gonna be a $500+ at a MINIMUM but could be tens of thousands if you hit something fiber down there. Locate paint isn’t always accurate and it’s not a liability defense to use the paint from the contractor’s locate ticket anyway. The utility companies use debt collectors that are borderline harassment experts.
IF you do this, call your own ticket through 811. But just don’t do it. Not worth the money and hassle if shit goes wrong
Edit: I just realized you said 4-6 inches not feet. My point still stands but you won’t hit anything that shallow 99.99999% of the time
Going to say this si you reference the other comment.
Fibre us directionally drilled. Take his advice
When the city did my fiber lines they actually did a somewhat decent job of putting the sod back from where it came. It wasn’t perfect, but it also wasn’t just a mound of dirt.
I was leaning towards the reseed option 90% anyways assuming this would have been the wrong thing to do but figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask. I think they are gonna enter at one side of my property and go underneath which is no big deal. I definitely appreciate everyone’s feedback!
When they put fiber in my neighbrohood they did a bore for the main runs and everyone’s house run was just a trencher that cuts a very narrow trench in the yard. LItterally like a few inches wide.
I ran a large fiber construction project and questions like this were common. You can find out who is doing the digging by looking at the contact info on the locate ticket, usually available at your state’s 811 website. Call that person and tell them you need to coordinate with the local team for property access. Then get the day they plan to dig and the contact info.
Usually, when a homeowner wanted to work with us, we tried like hell to work with them. The construction folks will have a mandated remediation process like “straw and seed” vs sod or something else. You won’t be able to get them to do different. But, if you ask to work with them, they will likely be careful not to rut the ditch, scrape everything up and worse.
They get told by others that the easement is fair game so they tend not to care. But buy those guys some Casey’s pizza and a case of Monster and I’d bet you get treated really well
How tall do you mow? It looks great
When they did my neighborhood they had some machine that shot the wire under ground and didn’t dig anyone’s yard up.
I just had fiber put in my neighborhood a year ago and they didn’t tear up my yard at all. They ran everything underground with a drill and buried my service line by hand which didn’t disturb it at all really.
I basically saved my grass in my back yard in a wheelbarrow for a week. It looked better than the grass around it when I replaced.
Just plan to lift it back up next spring when it settles a lot to regrade that section again.
You can’t tell where it happened in my yard at all now. DO NOT let them reseed the area.