Cable burying machine - GIF

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Cable burying machine.




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Rock burying tractor attachment - GIF

[Philip Davies]

Ours have to go below a metre in depth and have hazard warning tape above, so of limited use here, I think.

[nova_robotics]

Ours have to go below a metre in depth and have hazard warning tape above, so of limited use here, I think.

I need to run a ton of underground conduit for fibre optic cable and power around my property, but we're right on the Canadian shield. We have a light dusting of dirt on top of solid granite. You can't even put a shovel in the ground here. It makes it so hard to build anything. I'd give my left nut to actually have dirt.

[Frank S]

No deeper than whatever it is being put in the ground I would almost say it might be for a sprinkler system. If it is not, then I wonder how long it will take them to figure out the screw up and pulled in the wrong direction? With a drag in line, you can only pull so far before the friction of the soil against the cable or tubing will stall the machine. Plus, you can't pull any extra length once you reach the house
I am currently fabricating a chute for 4 tubes that fiber optic cable will be pulled through, but this thing will mount on the back of a ripper shank on a D9 dozer which will have 4 hose reels mounted on the front of it to feed the tubing's through eh chute

[Frank S]

I just finished fabricating a chute to pull 4 poly conduits into the ground behind the ripped shank of a D9 And have a D8 in the shop that a hard rock ripped the entire Ripper mount right off the back of the tractor Bending the 1 3/4: thick mounting plate and snapping 18 inch and a half studs like they were made of plastic Some rock is so hard that even a rock saw has problems cutting a trench through it