Thanks
@smoothie, that makes sense now. I just want to protect everything downline.
@looney2ns Thank you, I plan to lay the cable just under the surface. The the forest floor is mostly pine needles then it is hard rocks and tons of roots that will be impossible for me to get through alone. We don’t plan on selling the place ever so not sure if there would be an inspector to bother us about it and it is low voltage in
cat5, max 30 volts I believe. If a rodent wants to chew through it, oh well, I will run a new cable but I think it will be fine. I ran plain cat 5 cable under the pine needles for the winter and it is all still working perfectly fine this spring.
@Ford I will consider your recommendation of burying the direct burial cable I bought from Mono price in cheap PVC conduit. I need to price out how much that would be for 300 ft and how much work and how I would get 300ft delivered on top of my SUV to the site.