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Old 09-07-2011, 02:57 PM
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I ran 100 amp service out to my garage when it was built. I just bought 100A direct burial "trailer feed" wire at Home Depot, rented a trencher and put it 36" underground.

You might also be able to simply use a knife trencher that pulls the wire underground as it moves along then closes the trench back up - all in one pass.

I couldn't do this in my case because there were pipes and tree roots I had to negotiate.

For a camper feed, you can just use 6ga direct burial cable since you only need about 30A feed.

This is how it's done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUQKIMqM5dw
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