ROFL .. that’s awesome! Makes me think of local city workers hehe
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 3:15 PM To: Animal Farm <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Trenching, drilling, plowing Jose Jaime Solorza Wireless Systems Architect 915-861-1390 On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I have seen fiber break due to freezing. It was unarmored fiber in steel conduit, not nearly deep enough. Conduit didn't expand at all when the water froze, so it cracked the glass. They had to replace several miles of it. ----- Mike Hammett <http://www.ics-il.com/> Intelligent Computing Solutions <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> Midwest Internet Exchange <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> The Brothers WISP <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> _____ From: "Adam Moffett" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 11:26:09 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Trenching, drilling, plowing Do I need to put conduit below the frost line? The vendor selling the fiber cable tells me I need to.....but that's actually rather deep at this latitude. On 4/6/2016 12:11 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: > Plowing is always the best, cheapest and fastest if you can plow. > -----Original Message----- From: Adam Moffett Sent: Wednesday, April > 06, 2016 9:31 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[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 >> >> >
