Wall/floor Pulls w/arrow

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You might think I am crazy, but I use a hollow aluminum arrow to pull lines through walls and floors. I just cut off the back end with a hacksaw and angle cut the tip of it. Rg6 cable fits perfectly through the arrow.  If for example if I'm running outlets in a modular home,  I just drill a hole through the floor and shove the arrow through. The angled tip kinda cuts through the insulation that hangs above the joists. I just feed how much i need to get to the splitter/sdu box location. The feathers of the arrow keep the shaft from sliding through the floor. I like this method, because i can drop all the outlets at once and be done inside before i start crawling under the house.

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not a bad idea.

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some also do it with those hollow skinny cheapo curtain rods, the hollow ones that slide.

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that clear tubing from lowes works good too 

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i just use a piece of ground wire. strip the insulation off of one end, loop it, then use linemans to compress the loop til you have just a small slit. then strip a couple of inches off of your center conductor and loop it in the groundwire loop. much smaller to deal with and you won't empty your quiver after you lose yours a few times.

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That's what I do. Sometimes I'll cut the ground wire to a point to get it through that pesky plastic liner. Then, once underneath, bend it together.

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The ground wire works too, and I have used a lot of it myself,  but my way you don't have to take any tools under with you. You just crawl grab the end of the cable and crawl out. Plus what if you get out from under the house go in and pull on the wire and it comes off, back under the house you go!!

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tape, always have a roll, fish tape, stick, wire, rope, whenever.

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you guys dont have bits with a pull hole in them?


i love my drill bit....punch the hole through, go to the other side, and strip back the coax a couple inches, and insert the conductor....then pull the bit back through...

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wow thats the best idea ever, i have always had problems finding wires under trailers when it didnt break through the plastic

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you guys dont have bits with a pull hole in them?


i love my drill bit....punch the hole through, go to the other side, and strip back the coax a couple inches, and insert the conductor....then pull the bit back through...

Reminds me of a new guy i was helping out @ an install the other day... Poor kid...

We had to run 3 AOs, reco @ pole, one digi, one HSI...

He grabs his ladder and heads to the pole, i grab some cable and do the the two house wraps and get them to the GE before he is off the pole... I looked up a few times to see him with one arm wrapped around the pole and the other hand doing various duties... He was up there 25-30min, just doing a fitting and tags??? I save the inside run for both of us, he drills down, comes down and starts stripping coax back, a fitting size @ a time!!! We have bell hangers, the bits with holes in them... After him doing it about 4 times to expose maybe an inch, i asked him wtf he was doing. After showing him it was possible to do 4-5 inches with one strip he grabs the stinger and puts it in the bit, and puts 2 inches through the hole!!! Then gets electric tape and starts taping the living shit out of the bit, at this point i wasn't saying shit, since the cx came down to watch... Keep in mind, he just drilled through the floor, insulation and drywall and now between the excess stinger and electric tape, expanded that bits width, it was funny watching him try to get it back up....

O well...


The best thing i was ever told was work smarter, not harder.

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I save the inside run for both of us, he drills down, comes down and starts stripping coax back, a fitting size @ a time!!! We have bell hangers, the bits with holes in them... After him doing it about 4 times to expose maybe an inch, i asked him wtf he was doing. After showing him it was possible to do 4-5 inches with one strip he grabs the stinger and puts it in the bit, and puts 2 inches through the hole!!! Then gets electric tape and starts taping the living shit out of the bit, at this point i wasn't saying shit, since the cx came down to watch... Keep in mind, he just drilled through the floor, insulation and drywall and now between the excess stinger and electric tape, expanded that bits width, it was funny watching him try to get it back up....

now that's some funny shit!!

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i started useing arrows best idea ever

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I know. I try to tell people that here at my office but they don't listen. I guess i'm just as stubborn. When i myself have been doing something a certain way for so long, even though there is a better way, I stick with it.

I've been in cable for close to 14 years now and i've tried every trick in the book for pulling cable through walls and floors and using arrows is the best and quickest way  I have found so far. You do look kind of silly walking into someones house with arrows hanging our of your pouch!

Wal-mart usually sells the hollow aluminum arrows during hunting season for around 2 bucks a piece.

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