You can definitely plow in conduit. If you're going to do it that way you would want to look into blowing in the fiber after all the conduit is placed. This is a nice approach because you can splice/couple conduit very easily so the switch between plow and drill is not a big deal. Then once all the conduit is in the ground and coupled together, you can blow fiber in through the whole run in one shot. The blowing equipment is fairly expensive but I would think you can rent that.
Do you have a requirement for how deep you need to be placing your cable? A small plow like that could pull short sections of conduit at 18" or maybe up to 24" deep. If you need to go any deeper you'll need a much larger plow. On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > That's good advice, thanks. > > I see what you're saying about laying out the whole run at the first > obstruction and what a pain that would be. > > I pictured plowing in an HDPE conduit with a pull tape in it rather than > plowing cable directly into the ground. So I'd be pulling the entire run > off a reel trailer either way. At the moment this project exists mostly in > my imagination so if plowing in conduit is a dumb idea, this would be a > perfect time to tell me. :) > > > > > The discussion about whether you should drill or plow a certain stretch is >> subjective. Remember that every time you plow and need to go under an >> obstacle you have to figure 8 the whole cable run, or cut and have a splice >> point there. That can be a lot of labor if you're trying to keep a long run >> intact. Personally, when we are running in a rural area, if we have >> driveways every 200-400ft we drill that area. If we can go 800ft or more >> without obstructions then we plow that. >> >> Chris >> >> >> >
