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Old 15-06-2004, 13:30   #42
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Re: Expand the cable network
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Originally Posted by andrew_wallasey
Surely using a mole machine would be cheaper and quicker because there is less trenching and back filling. You would only have to dig holes at set intervals and on bends in the road where f/w would be needed anyway. Its only really modern developments (last 15-20 years) where the roads are all bendy.
Another problem is that there are lots of areas where no one knows exactly where services such as gas, electric etc. are underground. Street lighting, traffic lights and road signs espeacially seem to have some dodgy cable routing. I seem to remember lots of time in the past when such services were damaged while digging trenches.

A bit of a nightmare if you were doing wholeale moleing I would have thought. It would get very expensive not to mention risky if you were to nick a gas or electricity mains.
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