Carson 2200 rounds are cheap and seem to do the job - not traffic rated though.
On Sunday, August 20, 2017, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > I was making handhole components a few years ago. Not a big money maker. > But handholes are simply too expensive. I came up with some alternate > designs, like a slice of 36” plastic conduit. Made a lid to go over it. > Maybe I ought to revisit that project. The world needs lower cost hand > holes. > > *From:* George Skorup > *Sent:* Sunday, August 20, 2017 12:46 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Aerial fiber $/mile > > We're looking at doing a neighborhood where we have wireless now. Private > association of about 40 homes. The president is also an electrical > contractor and has helped us on other non-fiber stuff in the past. So at > least we can get duct at his cost. Looking like about 6250 feet of duct and > 21 or 22 handholes. Probably going to follow Chuck Hogg's strategy with 1x4 > PLCs in the splice cases fed by PLCs at the cabinet. My rough guestimates > are around $25-27k before putting it in the ground or customer drops. We > figure we can make a business case with a $1k install. > > On 8/20/2017 12:31 PM, Jason McKemie wrote: > > It does include the fiber, but not electronics or splice closures. Just > fiber, associated mounting hardware, and guy wires/anchors. > > On Saturday, August 19, 2017, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Drops were anywhere from 150' to 1600'. The long ones naturally pushed >> up the average quite a bit. >> >> On the feed down the road it's $1.80/foot plus the cable. The contractor >> is supplying all material except the cable itself and honestlyI don't >> recall how much of that was labor vs material. We did have to add 4 poles, >> so there's that in the $17,000/mile. And that also includes splice >> enclosures, switches, optics, switch enclosure, and electric installation >> at the switch enclosure. >> >> Does your $1/ft in materials include the actual fiber? If not, then >> we're very close. If it does then I have to sharpen the pencil quite a bit. >> >> >> >> ------ Original Message ------ >> From: "Jason McKemie" <j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> >> To: "javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','af@afmug.com');" < >> javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','af@afmug.com');> >> Sent: 8/19/2017 3:49:07 PM >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Aerial fiber $/mile >> >> >> How long are the drops? Labor for main runs cost me about $.75/ft last >> time I did it, plus around $1/ft in materials. I didn't have to do much >> make ready though, that can add up quickly. I think my drops cost me >> roughly $1/ft since I'm doing them myself now. >> >> On Saturday, August 19, 2017, Adam Moffett <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',' >> dmmoff...@gmail.com');> wrote: >> >>> I'm at $17,000 per mile on a recent active E deployment. Each customer >>> installation averaged $900. This is rural, so lots of long drops. >>> >>> I guess I'm looking over to the next stall to see how mine measures up >>> to yours. >>> >>> >>> ------ Original Message ------ >>> From: "Adam Moffett" <dmmoff...@gmail.com> >>> To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> >>> Sent: 8/19/2017 9:55:20 AM >>> Subject: [AFMUG] Aerial fiber $/mile >>> >>> >>> So after the dust has settled on completed projects, what sort of money >>> have you ended up spending per mile? >>> How much per customer installation? >>> >>> >>> >>> >
