Jraef...
I dont know if your'e old enough to rember the show, "Can You Top This?" but you opened the door, so here goes:
An assignment took me to a mid-east refinery. I met a young, aggressive, site electrical engineer who was anxious to talk about his newly acquired expertise. It was the first time that underground conduit had ever been installed in this country. Direct-buried cable was the country?s usual installation technique. So, he proudly announced that they had just completed "pulling" a relatively long length of 20 kV, 3-phase, lead-sheathed cable through the conduit, in one length. Of course I congratulated him because the feat, while not impossible, was certainly very, nay extremely difficult.
We walked the route of the underground conduit, and about half way, I noticed a splice vault, with a cable splice in it. I said "If you pulled the cable in one length then why is there a splice in it?". He replied "Well the construction plan called for one, so..."
Regards, Phil Corso