A couple of days after I finished the laundry room, the boring company showed up to run the conduit for cable between the solar panels on the barn and the inverter in the house. I'm biting my nails here. They have six days to get this system up and running, and they haven't pulled the cable yet.
They only had 350 feet of boring pipe and the distance from the barn to the house is 490 feet, so they had to bore from the center out toward the barn, pull the conduit through to the center, then move the machine to the house and run a bore to meet up with the conduit.
They hand dug a hole halfway between the house where the bores would meet up.
They moved the boring machine around to the house and ran the bore from the house to the end of the first run, hooked on to the conduit, and pulled it through.
This technology is amazing. From 250 feet away, they shot a pipe through the ground and got the end of it within an inch of the end of the first run. The whole process took less than 4 hours and cost less than having a backhoe dig a trench.