Burying cable in lawn
When the phone or cable guy come to install, they use a tool with a sharp round cutter, which splits the ground and buries the wire about 5″ underground. When they are done you can’t even see the cut.
Where can I buy, rent or borrow a tool like that? I need to run CAT-5 underground wire about 500 feet and don’t want to dig up the lawn or do poke a shovel in every 6″.
What is the tool called? Is is a “wire burying tool” or does it have some kind of name?
Thanks
Forget what it is called, but I rented something at my local tool rental place last year. It had an attachment to bury cable, and also had an edging attachment. Trust me when I say you want to use this tool. I buried underground wire for a dog fence. It took me less than an hour to go roughly 1000′.
Basically, the wire goes in a spool. The wire gets fed down a tube. The machine cuts a slit, the tube goes into the slit dropping the wire. Then the slit is pushed back together. I think it set the wire around 4-6″ below the ground.