Winter and Above Ground Cables

[BradMI]

I had Dish installed a few weeks ago and I haven't had time to bury the cable yet from the dish to the house. Well, the ground is starting to get hard and Michigan is getting cold. Flurries outside now are falling as I write this. My question is; does the cable absolutely have to get buried or will it be okay in the snow and the cold until spring?

The installer said all I had to do was tuck the cable underneath the grass, so if that's the case - it probably should be alright until spring in the snow I'm thinking... Anyone know?

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[old corps]

Take it from another Michigander, you'll be fine. I had my cable above ground (about 50') for most of the winter a couple of years ago until I could bury it in the Spring--no problems. Just make sure it doesn't get tripped over or runover or ??? Your installer was correct, you just need to gently turn over a couple of inches of soil with your grass and pat it back down. After a couple of weeks you won't be able to see it.

Ed

 

[BradMI]

Take it from another Michigander, you'll be fine. I had my cable above ground (about 50') for most of the winter a couple of years ago until I could bury it in the Spring--no problems. ...

Ed

great to hear, fellow Michigander... because i did not feel like going outside and getting the shovel out.

 

[Mr Tony]

There should be no issues. I'm in Minnesota and have seen cables above ground all the time. Little hard to shovel with the ground frozen

 

[old corps]

I hear that! Damned winter, BBBBRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

BTW, Welcome aboard!:up

Ed

 

[cparker]

I had a little attachment that I made for my garden tractor. I was putting in perimeter cable for a dog collar thing... whatever.... it was basically a shallow plow blade followed by a piece of pipe bent in a shallow "S" curve. The plow just slit the sod and the pipe had the cable fed through it. Pipe was secured at a level JUST above the bottom of the plow blade. Secure one end of cable just to get started. Drive tractor, cabling gets inserted under the sod. I did a 600' perimeter in a VERY short time. I had to stop a couple times to "help" it past some tree roots, and I had already made a sawcut in the blacktop driveway I had to cross, but total time spent was easily under 30 minutes if you exclude the driveway cut.

course it took me a couple hours to devise and construct the plow... but that was fun.