On 10/09/2012 12:53 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
  On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, David Griffith wrote:
  A friend of mine described a time when he found a
cable tech in the
 basement of a new building using what was essentially a shotgun to run
 cable through ducts.  I think it was a blank firing straight into the duct
 with the cable coming in through a wye. 
 I have used a crossbow,
 and a couple of times, I had my dog pull wire.  He did OK, but nowhere
 near as well as a dachshund trained for "earthdog" 
  I've used a radio-controlled tank to pull cable through many a
ceiling.  That approach works pretty well.
                   -Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA