Some of her views are a bit stupid . <| sep |> I feel like DH ' s are usually the worst offenders of this . Bad Blood DK ' s just spike insanely hard . <| sep |> Where I ' m located , we usually do direct burial for rural areas and conduit if it ' s going under a road or paved surface . The advantage of direct burial is that it can be ploughed directly down into the ground , which is around 14 of the price of digging a trench with an excavator . There ' s also a type of conduit that we use quite often , about 50 mm 2 plastic pipe with a slit running the length of the conduit , so that you can have one reel of conduit and one reel of fiber , and just use a special plough that forces the cable into the conduit as it ' s pulled into the rollers of the plough and buried . The conduit is more for protection than maintenance , but if you need to replace the cable you can dig up the conduit at some suitable interval and pull out the old cable in pieces .