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Re: [TowerTalk] Hardline - Direct Bury or Conduit ?

To: "'Richard Thorne'" <rthorne@rthorne.net>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hardline - Direct Bury or Conduit ?
From: "Drax Felton" <draxfelton@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 19:09:43 -0500
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I always put mine in 4" French drain pipe with the holes down and surround
it with 2B driveway stone.

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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Richard Thorne
Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 6:44 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hardline - Direct Bury or Conduit ?

I'm interested as well.  I need to run a runs of LDF5-50a myself for the
high bands and some lmr-600 for the low bands.

In addition I need to run rotor control/switch control cables.

Rich - N5ZC

On 3/4/2015 4:14 PM, N3AE wrote:
> Hello fellow Towertalkers,
>
> Hopefully spring is around the corner and I can pick up work again on my
tower project. I plan to make two 150 ft runs of LDF5-50A from the house SPG
to the base of the tower. Trying to decide if I should run the hardline in
conduit or just direct-bury. Soil around here is clay mixed with some sand.
Rare to find a rock, and if I do it's small stream gravel with smooth
edges.. Part of the run is through a wooded area.
>
> A conduit run would have some low spots (potential for moisture
accumulation ??). But I worry about critters (moles/voles/etc) chewing on
the jacket if I direct-bury.
>
> Anyone have a bad experience from direct bury of Andrew hardline? Rodent
damage? Crushing damage due to lawn tractors, etc? Something else?
>
> thx
>
> Shawn
> N3AE
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