When we put in the new, 200A service, I ran about 110-120 feet of 4" PVC
conduit from the pole to the service entrance. I rented a skid steer
trencher with a platform on the back for the operator stood on, from an
equipment rental place. Home Depot, or :owe's didn't have one that big.
I don't remember the width of the trench, but I do remember breaking two
shear pins getting diagonally across the driveway. I had a good size
messenger cable in there too. I remember how happy that made the power
company crew. They just had to put lots of snot...er cable pulling soap
on the three 00 Cu cables and pull. The did pull their own, still
larger, messenger cable in first though. That was not a 5 minute job <:-)
73, Roger (K8RI)
On 5/11/2017 Thursday 7:30 AM, Grant Saviers wrote:
I rented a 2" wide x 16" deep walk behind 2 wheeled trencher at Home
Depot which for a 300' RG6 coax in conduit run thru some trees to a 4
sq receive antenna. Barreto brand IIRC. They also had a larger one,
but the small one was perfect for maneuverability. Rental yards have
ride on sized ones usually Ditch Witch or Vermeer. My ranch ride on
diesel DW 3500 (sold) did 5" wide 36" deep and I did thousands of feet
of ditch with it.
Grant KZ1W
On 5/10/2017 14:33 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
Make and model of trencher?
Rick N6RK
On 5/10/2017 1:42 PM, Roger (K8RI) on TT wrote:
We recently had our yard cleaned up for summer (getting too old for all
the yard work). Running the coax from the 6-pack at the tower to the
AV640 mount, we had cut a slot with the edger and pushed the coax in,
but the up and down in the coax formed by having to push the BuryFlex
into the slot both shortened the run and the coax popped to the surface
in a couple of spots. Just laying the coax in the grass was not
acceptable as the thatcher would pull it up and get tangled up. The
yard
crew mentioned they had a small trencher for installing edging (cuts
a 4
X 4" trench). They ran a new, straight trench in less than a couple of
minutes to drop the straightened coax into which was back to the
original length. This was great for shallow burying of coax, or
even 3"
PVC conduit.
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