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.
Sent from my iPhone > 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. >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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