COMMUNICA No.5 COMMUNICA no.5 V2.0 | Page 37

COMMUNICA | Issue Five A de-wrapping machine is deployed to place ‘wrap’ fibre cable around the earth wire at the top of the power line. The same type of machine can also unwrap the fibre cable once it’s no longer needed. Each machine is operated remotely by a fibre engineer from the top of the pylon’s structure and crawls along the wire to wrap and unwrap the cable, suspended from the cable above the landscape. | 37