Cable laying machine for water ditches

摘要

The powered cable-laying machine is has endless type tracks 5 set apart to span the ditch and has at the rear end a guide tube 16 for the cable 17. Built around the cable guide is an arrangement that allows high pressure water jets 19 to be used to clear a path for the cable. In the event that the surface is hard and resistant to this effect the machine is provided with a retractable cutting tool 3. This is in the form of a continuous chain of cutter segments 25 that are motor powered. The cutter is pivot mounted off the main frame and may be raised through the gap between the tracks when not needed.