Thursday, May 31, 2018

The World Made Small Though Conduit And Cable Plowing

By Daniel Graham


The planet, by and large, was not made for human habitation. There are very few places in the natural world that a human being can survive for too long. In fact, compared to other animals, a human being is weak and fragile. Most other animals of comparative size are stronger, much stronger than a person could ever hope to be even with a steady stream of weight lifting and anabolic steroids. Animals that are smaller are either faster or have some sort of gimmick that means that they are still able to kill a fully grown person.. But no other animal is as prevalent across the globe as man. Sure, some animals may have greater population numbers overall, but none occupy as diverse a range of ecosystems as human beings. This is because for all the gifts nature has given them, it left out two very important things, the ability to innovate and the resolve to make that innovation into a real, tangible thing. No other creature is as innovative or as ruthlessly resolved as mankind. Not one other species, not a single other descendant from that one fish brave enough to crawl out of the primordial waters, has tamed the world the same way humanity has. And it tamed the world by connecting it, sometimes via conduit and cable plowing.

Now, plowing involves moving right through something. In this method, a plow is attached to a vehicle. The vehicle then charges forward and tears through the earth. Then wires are placed into the resulting trench, connected to appropriate ports, secured and sealed, and then the trench is filled in as to prevent people from falling inside.

Now, plowing as a method is preferred because it is a fast method of getting cables in the ground. There is another method known as trenching, which does have its own advantages. But the plowing technique still has the advantage in terms of speed.

Now, conduits and cables are necessary for the modern world. Houses need power and water. Truth be told, fiber optic cables for high speed internet are laid out by plow, and most households require the internet to fully function, to be fully part and participate in an age where everything is done online. Also, for the last two hundred years or so, most people have gotten used to indoor plumbing, which cannot be achieved without the use of conduits to ferry the water from a large reservoir and into a residence or a structure.

Alternatives include trenching, a slower method of laying down wires and pipes. For things like electricity and the internet, overhead wires can be used. But both also suffer from certain drawbacks.

The main benefit of laying pipes and wires underground is the safety aspect. Overhead wires can become entangled in each other, which can impede performance, and also break. Overhead wires that hand loose can cause injuries.

Two vehicles. The first is the plow, and then there is a second vehicle where that does the actually laying. The first vehicles displaces the dirt and the second follows closely behind, putting down the wire or piping.

Residential streets can benefit from underground cabling. Children and pets tend to play outside, so keeping the outdoors safe keeps them safe. City streets can also benefit from underground cabling. Really, anywhere that exists can benefit from such cabling.

Man has made the world small. It has been brought into homes. The inhospitable world has been brought to heel.




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