Plowing is always the best, cheapest and fastest if you can plow.
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From: Adam Moffett
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 9:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Trenching, drilling, plowing
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
