Unless you have bored it first and are backpulling, right? From: Chuck Hogg Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 2:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Short fiber trench
Pulling conduit can result in it basically squeezing itself thin too...I can't go more than 150-300' without busting conduit by pulling here. Regards, Chuck On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Jason McKemie <[email protected]> wrote: I'm talking about conduit, not the fiber itself. On Monday, July 25, 2016, Chuck Hogg <[email protected]> wrote: Dont pull in. Fiber is not meant for that. On Monday, July 25, 2016, Jason McKemie <[email protected]> wrote: Are those pull-in only or do they have a chute blade available? I'd think that it would be pretty difficult to pull-in 600' without breaking it into sections. On Monday, July 25, 2016, Joe Falaschi <[email protected]> wrote: We’ve used Toro Dingos with the vibratory plow for small projects like this. It was pretty easy and inexpensive to rent. Joe On Jul 22, 2016, at 8:02 PM, Jason McKemie <[email protected]> wrote: 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 <image.png> /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 -- Regards, Chuck
