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[500bbc]

So I'm having some guys redo some landscape/hardscape and we needed to pull some wire through existing condiut (under concrete). Can't get the fish tape through so the guys grabbed a shop vac and a string line. Vac at one end pulled the stringline through about 20' of conduit instantly.
I was impressed.

 

[Maw]

I did that - once - and it went so fast it got sucked into and around the impeller. Foam filter had been removed for cleaning and was still setting on the workbench.

 

[Backlash]

So I'm having some guys redo some landscape/hardscape and we needed to pull some wire through existing condiut (under concrete). Can't get the fish tape through so the guys grabbed a shop vac and a string line. Vac at one end pulled the stringline through about 20' of conduit instantly.
I was impressed.

Where you been the last 20 years??? LMAO!!

 

[JUSTWANNARACE]

That's how we do it. And we will tape a plastic shopping bag to the end of the string. Can pull string a long way with that method.

 

[500bbc]

Where you been the last 20 years??? LMAO!!

Staying away from pulling wire.

 

[stokerwhore]

Where you been the last 35+ years??? LMAO!!

fixed

 

[CLdrinker]

So I'm having some guys redo some landscape/hardscape and we needed to pull some wire through existing condiut (under concrete). Can't get the fish tape through so the guys grabbed a shop vac and a string line. Vac at one end pulled the stringline through about 20' of conduit instantly.
I was impressed.

That’s standard practice for our UG cable pulls.

 

[GETBOATS]

Di that successfully on a pull to a building put in 6 years ago, run was 123 ft. getting the 2 inch conduit under the driveway was not so easy. LOL

 

[FreeBird236]

Did he pull the wire yet? might still have a little problem with the wire.

 

[rivrrts429]

My electrical customers do that on some crazy long pulls. One blast from a blow pipe hooked to a 185cfm compressor and the string line is flying out of the sweep at the other end in milliseconds, works awesome.

 

[500bbc]

Did he pull the wire yet? might still have a little problem with the wire.

Nope, wire pulled easy.

 

[Backlash]

We've also used a hitch and a truck to pull some cable. Sure would have been easier just to drop larger conduit down in the trench in the first place.

 

[jesco]

My electrical customers do that on some crazy long pulls. One blast from a blow pipe hooked to a 185cfm compressor and the string line is flying out of the sweep at the other end in milliseconds, works awesome.

THIS!!! This works REALLLY good!!! Also works great if the conduit has water in it. Did some work at Dos Lagos GC, they ran a bunch of conduits for future stuff, never capped off the conduit so a bunch filled up with water. We took a air comp to it and water blew out the other side like Old Faithful!!! Hahahaha. Was crazy how much back pressure there was, but once you overcame that and the pressure builds up, it blows out the other side like crazy.

 

[bilz]

Stale conduit water from the mean streets of L A reeks like bum piss and tuna.

 

[Boatymcboatface]

Stale conduit water from the mean streets of L A reeks like bum piss and tuna.

 

[Icky]

Works for fishing wires through roll cages too. I use a flat Ballon tied to the string

 

[2Driver]

APS pulled a new main in conduit under my driveway to my house 1/4 mile including 2 s turns.

I said it cant been done.

 

[Crazyhippy]

Useful for fishing wires thru boat trailers too... just have to tape off all the extra holes

 

[Mini Kat]

I don't have a long enough extension cord so I just use my cordless works like a charm LOL

 

[brgrcru]

Now you tell me
My wife and I pulled 160’ from front panel to garage out back we used 4” conduit
Wasn’t to bad
You tube never showed the shop vac method
She was t happy But doing it ourselves we saved $$$

 

[Willie B]

Staying away from pulling wire.

… Let me tell you a story about a girl that I dated in 1965… We called her …the wire puller…… and I am still good friends with her to this day???…