No Dig Technologies - Inspectors?

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Minuteman

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Ran across this "no dig" thing, and wondered what inspectors thought about it?

http://www.hitchnditch.com/video.html

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352.10(G) Underground Installations. For underground installations, see 300.5 and 300.50. Conduits listed for the purpose shall be permitted to be installed underground in continuous lengths from a reel.
 
I found that video so annoying I had to stop it.

"Looks" like it work fine on freshly graded and compacted soil ~ like in the video....how about someones from lawn? Complete with sprinklers and planting beds?
 
I see 5 men installing a 3/4" PVC. what about a 4"? We have two men and a trencher to do this. The soil looks like loose sand. I think conditions would have to be ideal to even use it. I will stick with a trencher. As far as the inspection part. Our inspectors want to see at least part of the trench open. I just see too many obstacles and in our area, the soil is too compact to use one.
 
"Cable plowing" has been a method in use for many decades. The same companies (such as Ditch Witch and Vermeer) that make our trenchers also make cable plows. This same equipment, with minimal modification, also installs the reels of continuous poly conduit.

The tool in the video won't go deep enough for most NEC uses, anyhow.
 
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mdshunk said:
The tool in the video won't go deep enough for most NEC uses, anyhow.
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The tool in the video would not even make forward progress in the soil conditions we have.:D

A few years ago they installed hundreds of miles of fiber optic along the highways here. They used ditch witches on steroids.

They where tracked and about the size of a massive bulldozer, it also could vibrate the plow to help it along.
 
In the video it kind of look like they were putting that pipe in a parking lot in one of the shots and if it will only go down 18".........

Wonder what the heck it would do to your truck if it hit a big root or rock. Guess at 5 mph it wouldn't do much.
 
cowboyjwc said:
Wonder what the heck it would do to your truck if it hit a big root or rock. Guess at 5 mph it wouldn't do much.
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It's hard to say. Hitch receivers are meant to carry weight downward, stressing the usually-larger rear mounting bolts. The force in this use would apply upward pressure, and stress the front bolts.
 
cowboyjwc said:
Wonder what the heck it would do to your truck if it hit a big root or rock. Guess at 5 mph it wouldn't do much.
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Until you get aggressive :mad:, then it's a clear cut case of "off" road rage :D
 
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