I'm not tryin to sound like a badass er nuthin, but I've trenched that
far with a pickaxe and a shovel.
I was a little skinnier back then though. You could probably hire a few
people moping around Home Depot to get it done in a day or two the hard
way.
If you have permission from both landowners then just do it. If you're
a customer of both parties they're not going to give you trouble about
it. You might want an easement, but I wouldn't bother unless there's
another landowner in between who has no interest in it. The two
landowners you mention both stand to gain from you doing this (they gain
your rent $$ if nothing else).
From the picture I don't see any obstructions you would have to go
under, so I can't imagine why you would bore it. I think it's more a
question of trenching vs plowing.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Jason McKemie" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: 7/22/2016 9:02:37 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Short fiber trench
Just trench it yourself if none of the property owners have an issue
with it. Do yourself a favor and get a trencher with a back-fill blade
though.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Aaron Fitzgerald <[email protected]>
wrote:
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
/Fiber newb
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