Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 03 Jun 91 21:28:36 CST From: Jim Redelfs Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: RE: Re: Looking for Inexpensive Outside Wire Reply-To: ivgate!macnet!jim.redelfs@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: Organization: Macnet Omaha Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 424, Message 8 of 8 Lines: 39 Patton M. Turner wrote: > C-wire (drop wire) is hard to beat if you are going to use unshelded > cable. It can be run overhead or plowed in the ground. C Rural Wire is TOUGH stuff, but buried? I've never seen it buried in my experience or heard of doing so before. I recommend against direct burial of C Rural Wire. It is designed as an AERIAL wire (1-pr/1-line wire) and not really even as a "drop" wire. C Rural Wire is used for exceptionally LONG aerial spans whose length would cause ordinary F Service Wire (aerial drop wire) to fail at the P-clamps or break in the span. A typical C Rural Wire installation includes terminating the C Rural Wire at the pole closest to the station where it is connected with a 105 block to conventional F Service Wire for the final span to the station. Considering the scenerio: phone service wire placed through "woods" in an area of clay/compacted soil. Ordinarily, a vibratory lawn plow would do a satisfactory installation but, considering the likely encounters with numerous, substantial tree roots, a trencher would work MUCH better. If the service MUST be hung, I would probably forgo the luxury and expense of poles and simply hang the spans, with PLENTY of slack, from the existing trees. AT&T's Phoenix Works manufactures an EXCELLENT, 5-pair, jelly-filled buried service "wire". JR --- Tabby 2.2 MacNet Omaha 402-289-2899 On loan from Mrs MacWidow (1:285/14)