Re: Digest Number 3684

["Richard Boreham" <richard.boreham@xxxxxxx>]

Brian

When we had services connected to the house, one of them (think it was
electricity) seemed to use some kind of pneumatic mole device which
burrowed
alond 5 or so meters under the ground and meant they did not have to break
the road.  As I was busy at the time, I don't recall much more than
"wow
that's clever" - no idea how it was guided!  So they are around - may
be
Yellow Pages? Bet it's not cheap though.

Regards

Richard

>   Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:48:39 +0100
>  From: "Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: Almost OT...
>
>Burrowing holes..........
>
>I have been wracking my little brain on a good way to get a number of
cat5e
runs down my garden to >my new workshop.
>
>A friend suggested boring a hole under my patio which I just laughed
away...like you do....but then >tonight I got to think about it a bit
more
and it does not seem so bad....
>
>The reason for the tunnel is a gate that needs to be crossed by the
cables,
I can not go over the gate >but could go under the ground for about 2 or
3
metres the up and into a pipe along the fence...
>
>So the question....has anyone ever done this before with some sort of
tunnelling machine? no not a >JCB! just a small mole sort of size that I
could place a 20mm tube through?
>
>Thanks all,
>
>B.