Get a ez-trencher and some conduit get done in half day with 2 guys unless they demand it be deeper then 1ft
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 7:49 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > About 10 years ago I paid an underground boring company for about that > distance under the parking lot between 2 buildings in an office park. It > was a total turnkey job and while I don’t remember the cost it was quite > reasonable. Being flexible about schedule and what diameter conduit (so > they could use some leftover they had from another job) helped. They put > in something like 2 inch PVC duct with mule tape, cored into the 2 > buildings, and put in some pipe and an LB at each building. > > Perhaps now with all the fiber projects going on it has gotten more > difficult and expensive to hire a crew for this kind of job. > > > *From:* Aaron Fitzgerald <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, July 22, 2016 6:36 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Short fiber trench > > Hey guys -- > > I'd been talking with a local data center and fiber contractor in town > about running dark fiber from the data center to a cell tower that is about > 600ft from the exterior pull boxes. Both the fiber carrier I have been > talking to and the data center have their own pull box. The fiber company > wants around $100k in total for NRC + 5 yr MRC. Seems way too expensive. > > The data center owner asked a fairly obvious question: the run is short, > why not do it yourself? To be honest it's not something Id' ever > considered. The data center is willing to let me pay for a cross to the > carrier hotel, pull fiber to his outside pullbox and connect to the outside > world from there. The land owner where the cell tower sits would be game as > well -- I'd be paying him rent for usage of the tower afterall. > > How would one even get started with this? Ease and pros/cons of boring vs > trenching? I don't imagine I would need to worry about any protection from > conduit on a run this short > > [image: Inline image 1] > > > /Fiber newb > > -- > > > Aaron Fitzgerald - CEO/CIO > wiFitz Network Services > Serving NE Iowa's Creative Corridor > Phone: 319/540-8999 > Web: http://www.wifitz.net > > wiFitz is a service of Fitzgerald Embedded, LLC >
