On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:54:18 -0500, mm wrote:

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.

The cable won't last longer if it's 10 feet deep. It just needs to be out
of the way of the lawn mower. It's a lot cheaper to slit it under the sod
than to dig a deep trench and fix the grass.

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.

Mine went in 20 years ago when the house was new. About five years ago
they had to replace the line when I went to Internet cable and digital TV.
THe lead in was fine for analog TV but too much loss for the bits.

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.

I didn't even notice when they did mine. They had to lay the cable on the
ground because it was frozen harder than a rock. In the spring I called
to see when they'd bury it. They already had. blush

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

Do you drive an Abrahms too? ;-)

--
Keith