Porta mole underground boring machines are used to put pipe cable or conduit under paved surfaces.
Underground pipe and cable laying machine.
These three methods are explained below with their advantages and.
Used by landscape contractors cable installers electrical contractors.
The range of machines manufactured by omac covers all types of hydraulic pullers specifically designed for laying low medium high voltage underground cables fiber optic and for pipes renewal.
Directional boring hdd offers significant environmental advantages over traditional cut and cover.
Hands on video training presentation for osp fttx project deployment and activ.
Directional boring also referred to as horizontal directional drilling hdd is a minimal impact trenchless method of installing underground utilities such as pipe conduit or cables in a relatively shallow arc or radius along a prescribed underground path using a surface launched drilling rig.
Cable pull materials equipment.
Since 1972 line ward has hand crafted the highest quality line layers and boring equipment specifically designed for seamless underground cable and pipe line installations.
Laying uf underground feeder cable directly into the ground this is known as direct burial and if you do this the uf cable must be at least 24 inches below the surface of the ground to minimize the chance of the cable being pierced by routine shoveling.
The reliability of underground cable network highly depends upon proper laying of cables quality of cable joints and branch connections etc.
This wire burying machine can install any wire cable or pipe with the greatest of ease.
Pulling capacity from 8 kn to 600 kn.
What makes cable installation so simple with the l2 line layer are the special features unique to the cable installation industry.
Underground wire pulling can be completed faster and leave barely any damage simply a slit in the ground.
Thorne derrick international distribute the most extensive range of cable pulling cable laying equipment to enable the installation of low medium and high voltage power cables into underground trench or duct products also supplied for fibre optic blowing subsea trenching offshore umbilical installations and pulling armoured cables onto cable tray.
Porta mole will bore 2 to 13 5 to 33cm in diameter and up to 200 60m in length in sand clay and hard rock soil conditions.
Further the vertical runs where the cable descends into the ground at the house side and emerges up from the ground at the outbuilding.
Porta mole also cleans culvert drains and core bores curbs and foundations.
This video presents the fiber optic cable laying on underground application.