Serving Alabama, Mississippi & the Florida Panhandle
Aerial Fiber Construction

Aerial Fiber Construction

Strand, lash, and overlash built to NESC clearance.

Overview

What This Actually Involves.

Aerial is the fastest way to get fiber in the air and the easiest place to create a decade of problems. Sag out of tolerance, a bond that was never made, a clearance violation over a driveway — none of it shows up on the day, all of it shows up later when the pole owner audits or a truck catches a low span.

ConLit builds aerial plant to the standard the pole owner will actually inspect against, and documents it so the audit is a formality rather than a rework order.

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ConLit technician placing fiber from an aerial bucket
Scope

What's Included.

Strand & lash

Messenger placement, tensioning to spec sag, and lashing in single or double pass.

Pole framing

Down guys, anchors, standoff brackets, and framing on new or existing poles.

Make-ready support

Field survey, pole loading input, and coordination with the pole owner and other attachers.

Overlash

Adding capacity to existing plant without a second messenger, including loading verification.

Bonding & grounding

Continuous bond throughout, verified — the item that fails audits more than any other.

Clearance compliance

Spans built to NESC vertical and horizontal clearance over roads, drives, and structures.

How We Run It

Four Steps, No Surprises.

01

Route walk

We walk the run before we quote it. Pole condition, existing attachments, and access problems get found now, not on mobilisation day.

02

Make-ready coordination

Applications, pole loading data, and scheduling around the other attachers on the pole.

03

Placement

Strand set and tensioned, cable lashed, slack stored at the structures where you will actually need it.

04

Bond, tag & document

Every structure bonded and tagged, GPS as-built captured, package delivered with the invoice.

Common Questions

Straight Answers.

Do you handle make-ready, or just the placement?

We handle the coordination and the field work, and we support the engineering. Whether ConLit or your engineering firm produces the pole loading calculations is your call — we work either way.

Can you overlash on someone else’s strand?

Yes, with the pole owner’s approval and a loading check. Overlash is often the cheapest path to added capacity, but it is not automatic — the existing messenger has to carry it.

What about railroad and DOT crossings?

We build them, and we handle the permit packages. Lead times on railroad crossings are long, so flag them as early as possible.

Related Work

The Rest of the Scope.

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Next Step

Send Us the Scope.

Route miles, location, timeline. We will come back with a real number and a real schedule — not a range and a maybe.

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