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Old 03-20-2020, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by EdFNJ View Post
They did that at my house a few months ago. There was no conduit, just direct burial cable. Some guy came by and by hand using what looked like a garden spade dug a slit in the lawn about 18" at at shot about 100' to the Comcast demarc in back of my house and one house over. They were replacing cable drops. We came home just as he was finishing.
That is to replace the cable drops that go to homes. The Main Cable that services a long run of homes is different and is a more substantial cable that has easements and is run along the back of homes (at least where we live).