All-steel seam spade for residential fiber drops

Bury the drop.
Leave the lawn.

Qwik Stik opens a narrow seam in the soil without lifting any dirt out. Lay the line, press the sod back together with your boots, and move to the next house.

Request a pilot kit $199 per tool · freight and tax extra

0 to 2 in · Sod

The turf parts. Nothing comes out.

A 0.15 in steel blade slices the root mat and wedges it open. There is no spoil pile to shovel back, rake out or haul away.

2 to 6 in · Topsoil

Your weight does the work.

Plant a boot on the 14 in foot bar, lean on the 19 in handle and step down. No engine, no fuel, no trailer to back into a cul-de-sac.

6 to 11 in · Subsoil

Steel all the way down.

Welded steel from handle to tip. The design comes out of four years of residential drop work, where a tool gets used hard every day.

Stroke by stroke

Overlap and keep walking.

Each stroke opens 11 in of route. Overlap the last one and the seam becomes one continuous channel from the pedestal to the house.

11 in · The drop

Line in. Seam closed.

Feed the cable or conduit to the bottom, then walk the seam and press the sod down and together. The homeowner gets fiber and keeps the yard.

Three moves per drop

  1. Open

    Step the blade in along the marked route. The soil is pushed aside, not dug out.

  2. Place

    Lay the approved drop cable or conduit into the bottom of the seam.

  3. Close

    Press the sod down and together with your feet. No backfill, no seed, no second trip.

19 in handle 43 in overall 11 in blade 8 in 3 in tip 14 in foot bar

Built like a pry bar

Overall height43 in
Handle width19 in
Foot bar14 in
Blade width11 in
Blade reach below foot bar8 in + 3 in curved tip
Blade thickness0.15 in
Shaft1.5 in
ConstructionAll-steel, welded

Prototype dimensions. Burial depth is set by your network owner's spec, so confirm an 11 in reach meets it before you order.

Where crews reach for it

Short lawn runs

Pedestal to the side of the house, across turf, in soil a spade can enter.

Tight access

Gated back yards, fence lines and landscaping where a plow will not fit.

Finishing work

The last few feet at each end, where unloading a machine costs more than the job.

Put one on a truck

$199per tool · freight and tax extra

We are setting up pilots with residential drop contractors. Tell us how many crews you run and we will send tools, a method sheet and a simple job log.