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Pulling in cable - how hard can it be?

Chris Pearson

I am knackered - I have spent several hours today pulling in 3 x 16 mm² into 25 mm conduit. OSG promised me that it was possible and indeed it has been, but how difficult does it have to be?

Lube the cable, up the ladder, pull a bit, back to the beginning, lube the cable, back outside again, up the ladder, pull a bit. Down the ladder, move the ladder, up the ladder, pull a bit, down the ladder. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

Am I missing something?

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  • Ha ! I suspect we have all been there or somewhere like it - the oddest ' never again' I got involved with that needed cables threaded, was coax inside  inside a nylon 'suzie' pipe to get RF feeders up a pneumatic mast as a self stowing 'curly wurly'. That did involve subcontractors, yellow lubricant by the bucket, screwing the end to heavy wooden benches and using a forklift to provide the pull. And then once cables were finally in, we had to reset the coil back to helical by winding it tight to a former and heating it in an oven...

    But in your shoes I might have used my 'phone a friend' option to get a pair of hands at each end. Some jobs are a lot more than twice as fast with two people.

    Mike

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  • Ha ! I suspect we have all been there or somewhere like it - the oddest ' never again' I got involved with that needed cables threaded, was coax inside  inside a nylon 'suzie' pipe to get RF feeders up a pneumatic mast as a self stowing 'curly wurly'. That did involve subcontractors, yellow lubricant by the bucket, screwing the end to heavy wooden benches and using a forklift to provide the pull. And then once cables were finally in, we had to reset the coil back to helical by winding it tight to a former and heating it in an oven...

    But in your shoes I might have used my 'phone a friend' option to get a pair of hands at each end. Some jobs are a lot more than twice as fast with two people.

    Mike

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