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those days it's not trench digging (unless it's next to highway with machine that in one pass will trench and lay conduit/cable), it's trench drilling with some
by tguvot 1y ago
those days it's not trench digging (unless it's next to highway with machine that in one pass will trench and lay conduit/cable), it's trench drilling with something like this https://www.ditchwitch.com/directional-drills/ https://www.ditchwitch.com/directional-drills/
frontier installed fiber in my area using this method. relatively quick and no damage that needs to be "aggressively" paved over.
- namibj 1y agoCan't do that in a century old city street with century old utilities in it. They dug up the sidewalk with shovels here as a result; though using machinery to move the soil they dug up and handle the asphalt that's covering the sidewalk along part of the street. Yeah you can directionally drill across a front yard typically; but actual urban areas are just too filled with infrastructure.
- tguvot 1y agobefore drilling there was a team that mapped and marked all underground utilities. some of the drilling went between front yards (this is where underground vaults are/were), but a bunch was done below sidewalks and across the streets.