Yeah. 600' is practically a cakewalk. You didn't mention what the
surface is, so I'm assuming you have dirt? If that's the case, and it's
flat, you can do a 600' trench in a day with a ditchwitch. Probably a
half day. I've done a couple hundred feet by myself on unlevel ground
through rock.
keep us posted on your progress/plan.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 7/22/2016 6:37 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
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]
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To: "[email protected]" <[email protected] <mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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
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