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Originally Posted by rleehamn
I have just one tree in my front yard so I had to put my dish about 70 ft out. I finally got my trench dug, talk about pain being close to a river.
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I'm curious what you're referring to here? Intuitively I would have thought that near a river the soil would be more sediment, whereas on top of hills, etc, you often run into rock. Where I am now, there are places where it is solid bedrock for hundreds of feet. My back yard isn't that bad, ie not bedrock, but there are stones of all sizes that I had to zig-zag between. Just curious what you meant by the river factor? Or perhaps it depends on if you are in a flood plane (sediment) or along a river with a steep slope (rocks)? Just curious.
When I first put my dish in here, I did it by hand, and didn't go deep enough, but after that I got a small backhoe for my tractor, and the second time I dug it deeper and put in plastic conduit. One thing, if you use conduit or PVC or something, I think it's important to allow drainage so it doesn't fill with water. That happened on my first dish where I used to live, and the coax was in water 360days/year, and I think the water eventually got into the cable.