Pun intended I presume. Yeah, when you have to go cross country, blowing more than 3000’ in one stretch can be a challenge. So having access for blowing and slack every 2500’ or 3000’ is needed. But big expensive handholes are not needed. You can direct bury slack loops but out here we would have gopher damage in every one if we did that.
From: dmmoff...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 10:26 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Cc: ch...@go-mtc.com Subject: RE: [AFMUG] Steel handholes Seems like a narrow use case From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2022 8:48 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: ch...@go-mtc.com Subject: [AFMUG] Steel handholes Hello people, I got tired of the lack of handholes in the supply chain. Years ago I was making polymer handhole lids with our logo in it. It was a vanity project and I learned that if you want to be in the polymer handhole business you need to take delivery of polyester resin by the railcar. Else you will not make a profit. So, lately I am constructing in the UDOT ROW. They require tier 22 rated handholes. I only need slack storage because there are super long distances between areas where I actually need to access the fiber but I do have at 2500’ or 3000’ limit for blowing. So I created a galvanized steel 24x18 inch hand hole that is 6’ wide. It will hold 150’ of slack of the largest cables. It can be installed with just a vac ex. We have to come out of UDOT HHs that we are sharing and go into our own. They will not allow slack loops in their HHs. This will make it so we don’t have to install a full 18 X 24 X 24 or 36” deep polymer HH just to store slack. My handhole is light enough that one stout person can pick it up and place it. Maybe others are interested?
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