Re: Almost OT...

["Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Alan
Have done it using a scaffold tube with a chain welded to it and pushed by
a JCB as i had run underground supplies to 12 factories and had to go under
a pathway..worked a treat........this was for a 50mm hd conduit........

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Alancc
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Almost OT...


I've done it several times when installing automation to gates, we dig a
hole each side then put a point on the end of a piece of steel conduit
about
500mm long, screw on a short length of conduit with a coupler so you can
hit
it without damaging the threaded end then using brute force and a big
hammer
drive it through adding more sections of conduit as you go.
If you want a larger hole use a scaffold pole and push it through with a
JCB
bucket, I've heard this works but have not seen it done.

HTH
Alancc
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian G. Reynolds <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>
To: Ukha_D (E-mail) <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:48 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] 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.
>
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