[TowerTalk] Installing/burying LDF5-50A

[Drax Felton]

I've had good luck burying mine in 4" white plastic drain pipe you can buy at Lowes cheaply. 

  Use the kind with drain holes all along it, point them downward, and surround it with crushed 2b stone (the stuff they do driveways with).  You'll get condensation in there so it gives it a place to go. 

I bound all my hardlines with electrical tape and slid on the pipes on one at a time rather than trying to pull the heavy cables.  I got 7 runs in one pipe that way.

Slide on multiple 30 degree elbows with short pipes between them and make slow bends rather than using single 45 degree elbow. 

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> On Mar 4, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Conrad Farlow <conrad at g0ruz.com> wrote:
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> My radio club will shortly have 4 towers and I would like to run lengths of LDF5-50A to the base of the tower from the shack. The lengths are not particularly long but I would like to bury them to keep them neat. I have very little idea of how to do this properly, in particular how to put a correct bend into the cable where it leaves the ground pipe and enters the shack. Does anyone have any photos' guidance on how they have done this?
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> I am assuming that the cable should be put inside some large diameter plastic pipe that has a good number of pull ropes installed prior to burying them.
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