[TowerTalk] Hardline - Direct Bury or Conduit ?

[Don Moman VE6JY]

I never put hardline in conduit, never had any issues. Maybe 20,000 feet
and counting.  Have many miles of control cable as well, a few issues from
very poor quality indoor jacketed cable - tend to use what I have and put
in spares.  Conduit usually guarantees the cable will sit in water.  Have
plenty of burrowing critters and heavy vehicles - cranes and manlifts that
sink in a lot at times.  On firm ground, like a driveway, no problems.

73 Don
VE6JY

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:14 PM, N3AE <n3ae at comcast.net> 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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