Took just 10 minutes to successfully blow a mouse thru the 2" conduit today. Blew a lot of water out the 10 foot steel riser at the street pole, will pull a 1/4" nylon rope in tomorrow to allow CATV to pull a larger pullrope in when they are ready. They have agreed to pull the hardline in if the GC supplies some of the special wirelube they requested, supposed to be much more slippery than the stuff we normally use(we use the blue stuff or the yellow stuff)
Then I proceeded to try and suck a mouse thru the 4" tel conduit. All kinds of water and after 3 hrs we gave up and will resume tomorrow with a Greenlee vac blowing on one end and a shop vac sucking on the other end. We had good luck for the first 5-600 feet and removed lots of water with only the Greenlee but are stopped there.
This is what I hate about winter in Maine...digging shuts down in Nov or Dec and resumes in spring. The nice empty conduits get water in them sometimes and create a lot of extra work.
By the way, both runs are actually about 1000 feet.
