The Worst Part! Pulling Wires Underground
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In today's video we run our solar wiring in conduit in our trenches. We are running our DC wires and AC wires.
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Wire pulling lubricant would make the pull much easier
This is amazing! These young men are learning what it takes to make a living for their families! So proud for you and Angela! Love your channel!
It makes my heart so happy to see the boys right along side of you helping!😊
The young men are GREAT helpers! Congrats! Almost finished! YEAH! 👍👏❤😍🥰
Angela said, " needs gloves". 😁😂
It's amazing to see how much Elijah and Issac have grown!!!
Elijah is getting so tall and trim.
Tfs! 👋
I love you all!
✌️💖🙏🙌🕊️🇺🇲🤜
It’s wonderful to see your sons helping & learning. And they aren’t into this “I don’t want video’s because I want privacy “ nonsense.
Good job Sam & Angela!!!
That wire fit through that conduit like a glove. Like the one you won't wearin.
Like the one angie said you needed.
I always look forward to your videos. I'll be glad to watch Angela cooking again. Hope the boys are fine . I hope I have some good fruit on my 2 trees this year....yum
The boy's are growing up so fast. It's good that you are teaching them things they can learn in their future year's.😊
Angela said, " needs gloves". Great Family love the work ethic. Keep it up.
for a minute there, thought this was the previous power feed cable bury...yeh, for my money, always feed one piece of conduit at a time and then glue afterwards. last time i pulled wires through conduit, my conduit was smaller than it should have been, so it was a real chore pulling two 10/3 wires through a 1 1/2" pipe. Great work, Sam. Love seeing you teaching your boys how a man works. Hate to think you might someday run out of home improvement projects and good stuff to video.
Angela said needs gloves😂 awesome watching the boys learning the ropes from dad. Good video ❤
I agree with Angela about the gloves but I thought it was pretty smart for you to use the board to pull the string through. That was a hard job and you all did great.
I love how the whole family came together to do this project!
cable lube is worth the extra few bucks on multiple wire pulls
Was coming to say the same thing.. Lots of folks say use Dawn dish soap, but you're better off just buying the real deal and using that.
Your sons are great helpers so nice.
You got 2 strong young helpers there. The next few years are gonna be where a lot of memories are made. Nice work.
You have a couple of hard working, willing young men there! Good job boys helping out dad.
"Angela said, 'need gloves'"...Lol. The boys were such a big help with this project! Love watching Sam and the eldest together on the tractors.
Great Job! 🙂And Angela saying 'needs gloves' may well save the next person who will be installing their own solar wiring. We can all learn from each other. Thank you 🙂
Great job youngsters. DAD is teaching you to be REAL MEN.
Love your videos and enjoy watching them. May the lord bless and protect you and your family and the working on the homestead and pulling the wire
love that you are including your children in your projects. thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Awesome video guys !!!!!! Thanks for the information on the solar job , good thing is you have helpers and equipment for help !!!!!😊 God bless you all 🙏
I thought you were going to lose that line, I was ready for that string to snap. Gloves, who would have thought? Good tip Angela.
Your kids are precious. Amazing job raising them right. Love your channel and always look forward to the next adventure with yall.
1988 Palm Harbor single wide! YES i missed this lol.
PS Angela was 100% right on using gloves to pull the string through :)
For future reference, they make a cable lube which can make pulling wires through conduit much easier. I also leave the bends off the conduit until after the pull and just slide them over the ends, which also makes the pull easier. Lastly, and this is surely not electrician approved (except my electrican didn't seem to mind on our 450 ft pull), I got on my UTV and used it to do the majority of pulling the wire through the conduit. Lol. The pull took like 30 seconds and was easy peasey.
You'll have a awesome little solar Installing crew before long.😊 Great job have a blessed week.
Thanks, you too!
Momma said “ Sam, you need gloves “.
Thanks for the video
Take care👋🏼
Spring is here and so is the pink tan hee hee. Guys best get that ole sunscreen on. I love watching this stuff
Angela's right...use gloves, Sam! Great job on this project!
Your ideas are always so helpful! You are becoming more self sufficient that is a great thing!!
Good job! A bottle of Cheap dish soap poured on the wire as it goes into the conduit would help the wire slide. Dollar store hack! I admire your drive!
Great to see the boys working with you. Learning skills, and using critical thinking that they teach in pu license school.
I think I would have pulled the wires through each separate conduit and and the elbows before glueing them. But it's easy to watch and be a smarty pants after the event. It's good to see the boys getting stuck in and helping.
A can of Pen-Lube helps a lot with reducing that friction, especially when it comes to running corners. 😊👍
Y'all are getting things done again. Keep it up and y'all will be done in no time.
Spray silicone on your end and your bends there at the end, will help in slide easier. Or dust powder down in them. That's a lot of wires to pull at once! It'll be so nice to have it all safely in conduit! And the boys are big help now!
You must be very glad you had to buy 2" conduit. The smaller would have been impossible to pull.
This may be your last project like this but in the future run smallest rope/string first. Use it to pull
the larger one. That was a butt buster for sure. You had great help!!!!
You can use wire pulling lubricant, it works very well. You have done a great job on your projects we enjoy watching all of the progress , you guys have come a long way! 😀
Great job folks, love seeing the boys helping and learning along the way ❤
Here is a suggestion at the pool, why not add a T Junction to allow more wire to be feed in. Look at a solar canopy for the pool for shade and protection
Most people would not use conduit to do the job. So glad to see you do it right the first time(quoting Mike Holmes lol). Your boys are awesome helpers
Your boys are becoming good helpers
That is going to really be awesome. To not have to send money to electric company. Creating your own power right there. Great job
Be glad you used the 2 inch conduit trying to pull it through 1 and and 1/2 would have been a nightmare you would not have wanted. If you need to this again remember pull it through the conduit first. You can even do it above ground. But make sure you decide if you want to pull it through the elbows or not, you can pull it slide down the elbow and glue it. Good work. Nice to see you working with your boys.
This was an interesting video and it was wonderful seeing your boys help. They are going to be very knowledgeable like dad.😊
I’m so impressed with your boys ! Elijah so tall and hard eager worker ; Isaac learning alongside ❤❤
Sam - PUT SOME SUN SCREEN ON PLEASE.
I’m about to have my 2nd excision of skin cancer… basal cell and melanoma.
This is no joke . 😫
Wires fit like a glove, Angela says needed gloves😊
When you're attaching a bunch of wires to your pull string, stagger the ends so that when it gets to a bend it will start with a single wire bending then add one wire at a time instead of forcing the whole bundle to bend at once.
Also I was going to mention not to use mason string because it will cut right through the pipe in addition to cutting your hands up (unless you wear gloves like Angela said)
You people are so amazing. God bless you and the boys. ❤
Always use a metal 90 on the end you pull to. This will prevent the pull rope from cutting into the pipe fitting.
Good job ..... I've pulled thousands of yards of wire over the years , one thing I didn't see you using is wire lubricant, it would have made it 10 times easier to pull ..... 😆 🤣
Growing up there was no excavator , my dad handed us a pick , shovel and 6 foot digging bar and said " get to work " your boys have no idea how lucky they are.
They sell longer 90s called sweep 90s. Makes wire pulling easier
Great job, those are some hard working boys ❤❤
14:57 good idea, I love it ❤
My absolute LEAST favorite thing to do, run wires.. Most of the stuff I've run in my lifetime was either RG62u (old Arcnet data networks), RG6, RG5x, and Cat5/6/7/etc, lol. I couldn't even begin to count how many miles of Arcnet stuff I installed back in the day, not to mention Cat5 stuff, lol. If we do go with a ground-based installed, I luckily only have about 40-50' at most from the array(s) to the house, nowhere near the lengths you're working with. At worst, I could always run everything into our out building (it'll be next to said array(s)), but I'd need to insulate and climate control that building if we were to use it as a 'power shed' type setup. I'll definitely be following this project to the end, as it's giving me an idea of what we're going to face if we go through with it.
I think the boys stole the show.. Oh no, has Issac sent you a bill for his services. It was a good work day with your family even though it was a lot of work that's what you guys do best. Find a way to get it done. Enjoy those boys and have some good memories. Your videos will be come Home Movies for them to watch when they have kids. Another good video ..
Actually you got lucky pulling that wire.... thought for sure it would break the string...💥💥💥
You could also use some dish soap to lube the pull cables
The boys were such a big help today. BTW.....Angela was right. Lol....were was your gloves?
😁 Anagela said "Need gloves" 😁
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ lol I was shouting "COME ON WIRE! COME ON WIRE! YAYYYYYYYYY🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌😁 Hey who needs gloves when you got a good board👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Been there, done that. Only difference was I used flexible conduit so I laid it out straight, pulled the wires through and then dropped it in the trench. It made fishing the wires though a bit easier. Great job though and looking forward to the next episode.
Angela is da genius in da fambly...You need her to check on you to protect you from yourselves and to keep you safe🤣🤣 "need gloves"...🤣
Love the project. Just a heads up the fill for direct bury trenches is supposed to be considered "clean fill" with no rocks or debris in it so the cable shouldn't get damaged
Haaa ya Sam ya need gloves! But wow you guys have great timing on your videos! I’m down to the last few major items on my shop build . This weekend Im making the power connection from my main panel at the house to the new work shop and have to run conduit so you bet a I’m going to try that shop vac bag trick! That was the coolest hack ever! So thanks a lot!
Great job Sam and the boy's
Instead of fishing those cables I used to take rope and attach and pull them through. So much easier...
Nice work. Just ran electrical from my workshop this week. Much shorter distance (about 12"), but it was a major pain.
You’ve got some great help there.
I just pulled 4 4-0 wires through 2 1/2" conduit over 100'. I used the winch on my side-by-side to pull the wire. I didn't see you put CAUTION tape over the wire and conduit? Supposed to be 1' below ground level. Helps to warn someone in the future that might be digging so they don't hit the wires.
Thanks for the video
Just bless you, Sam! The Lord gave you Angela!
With all the digging on your property your neighbors probably think you have the worst case of moles in the world or you don’t have a steering wheel. On that tractor lol
Angela said "need gloves:❤😂
Next time put soap (like dawn ) on end of wire, it will slip through a lot better
Someone once told me that you can always buy more glue and not to use it lightly because who wants a leaking conduit.. anyways I'd use more conduit glue if this was my project 😅
So awesome. The feral children are getting so big now. Nice they wanna learn how to do stuff.😃👍😁
lmao pulling wire through conduit like that is the worst. when I did a run from my shop to the house, i went piece by piece and was so happy I did. It was annoying for sure but not nearly as annoying as this!
Heads up, and I know it is after the fact, much easier to bundle your wires and run through the conduit before putting it while in the ground
Don’t know that you’ll have another large wire pulling job again……..but maybe using a wire/conduit lubricant will help make it easier.
Looking good, can't wait til you're off grid!
I tried pulling 2x no10 through 100ft of half inch, had to vacuum chalk line twine, ran the hose in a loop pushing and pulling, gets jammed shake the conduit up and down. I ran 4 wires through 3/4 for 75ft and it was easy.
Well done guys , excellent
When I was younger I put an HVAC system in an old farm house. I cut all the holes in the floor for the second story. And the holes in the ceiling for the first floor. The guy I was working with said we would use the cat method to get the runs pulled. He tied a string around the cats neck and tempted it with food at the other end. The ln we just pulled the flex duct through the space. 👍👍
Do it right! Heck yea!
Great team work.
LOL, Gloves Sam, Gloves!.....
Your sons are really good to help you with the tasks at hand.
Well done, think of all the money you’ll save on electricity x
Been there and done that, a real pain for sure. I used larger conduit and it still hung up, so had to pull half way thru and split the connection, finish pulling and then made
the connection up, worked but a long day project, looking good by the way, best wishes, jb
Where I live there are under ground animals that will eat on the cables so, we have to put them in PVC even buried rated wires
Baby powder helps on long home run pulls!
Great helpers😊
Sam, you are THE MAN!!!!!! And never forget it!!!! ❤❤❤❤
First couple months of solar will offset the costs rather quickly. Before you start I hope you used lubricant. Eureka you made it. That’s a lot of weight. Yeah l drank a whole cup of coffee watching. Agree about gloves.
Good afternoon Sam and Angela in your 1988 single wide etc etc
That is amazing!!!