On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:11:17 -0700, Tim Killian
wrote:

Don't bury it 6 inches deep because two years from now you will have to
do it all over again. The cable guys don't care how long it lasts
because they get paid to fix it.

The cable guys don't care because it's just a job, and they do what
they're told. But the cable company cares, and doesn't want to be
redoing work over and over, so if that's what happened next, the cable
company wouldn't do it this way.

My cable went in 22 years ago, but I stopped using cable about 12
years ago. All I can say is that everything was fine for the first
10 years, and it comes from a box about 90 feet away.

A Ditchwich is what you need. Rent one
and cut a trench at least a foot deep (or hire some local yokels to do
it for $80)

And how long before the yard looks decent again? How long before the
depression, or bump, goes away?

It took the cable guy (one guy) about 10 or 15 minutes to install the
line, iirc. No more than a half hour.


.. Put in a 1" PVC conduit with a pull string. Run two RG6
coax and a couple of CAT-6 lines.


Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let
me know if you have posted also.