I could do it for myself for perhaps $100k but I have all the equipment. I 
would charge $5/ft for plowing plus $1/ft for materials. So Colin is right in 
the mark.

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> On Dec 22, 2018, at 8:00 AM, Colin Stanners <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Depending on many variables, especially if you can plow some non-crossing 
> lengths to save money, this will cost 1/4 to 1/3 million - the customer has 
> the budget?
> 
> From those questions it sounds like your fist fiber build, so my 
> recommendation would be to have an experienced contractor do the design and 
> management, so that you don't miss something major (e.g. that a certain road 
> is state RoW instead of town RoW for whatever reason, and it turns out that 
> you not only need to get different authorizarion to install there, but they 
> need your line below 5ft, so if you plowed your conduit in at 3ft before the 
> govt figured out how to tell you that, you need to rip it all out and re-do 
> it, with much more expensive drilling).
> 
> Also often experienced project managers have good hints like "if you can push 
> your path one road over, most utilities aren't in there so you can save lots 
> of money on not hydrovacing their lines and additional drill shots", or they 
> know the unwritten processes to get maps of other utilities so you know where 
> is easiest/cheapest to go. Also you would want to know how to register in 
> your state CBYD membership and pay fees etc...
> 
> Drilling under creeks/major ditches, at least in our province, required 
> permission from government waterways department, which is a long process that 
> doesn't always say "yes" at the end. Also they may require certain depth or 
> pipe wall thickness that would require you to rent a bigger, more expensive 
> drill than what you expected/budgeted to use for the rest of the project.
> 
> A big increase in cable size will cost more to install due to time/effort 
> manipulating the spools (possibly large costs if you change from "carry by 
> hand" flat-drop 2ct size reels to "need to rent a toolcat for the whole 
> project and clear a large area of brush so you can drive it in" 96ct reels) 
> and additional difficulty/time jetting fiber into the conduit. Also for a big 
> change you will need to switch the conduit and vaults (for slack storage) one 
> size up, which adds costs up fast. Also a big change will take much longer to 
> splice, so if you are splicing it every mile and at every creek crossing, 
> that may double/triple your splicing costs.
> 
> There's more detail, that I don't want spend forever writing, our company has 
> been doing an extensive variety of fiber deployment (in Manitoba, which has 
> its share of ground and weather challenges) so if you want you can phone me 
> at some point and we can talk.
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 12:46 AM Steve Jones <[email protected] wrote:
>> If a guy wanted to get fiber in the ground, non aerial between two buildings 
>> to replace an existing licensed 1.3 gb link. Crosses 3 creek/ditches, 10 
>> rural intersections, 10 rural town blocks. What would be needed?
>> I would guess that duct is the best thing to put it in, innerduct being 
>> better. 
>> I'd guess 96+ count isn't going to cost any more per strand to put in the 
>> duct than 2 (not the cost of the fiber itself)
>> Lots of dark strands and duct space is probably lucrative to have just in 
>> case.
>> Slack, handholes, vaults, etc, what would you put in there? 10 or so 
>> customers on the path so not a ftth type thing.
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