Oh damn you know how to ruin a party! Isn't direct burial cable stiff as a board? Pulling through a conduit - no fun. Some of those direct burial cables look like they could survive a nuclear holocaust - rat repellent, armor, ant destroying nanoprobes smile . If I could skip the conduit it would make the job a lot easier.

I completely agree with the no 'inside-grade' cable through the conduit - that is a done deal. However, it there is a brutally tough (price is no object) 6-cond fiber and 50-pair that we could feel comfortable about laying in the dirt 24" down, that would really make our day.

BTW, if any of you travel through PDX, beers on me.