The old paint can trick saved my back on a crawlspace job today

I had a run of conduit that needed to go under a low crawlspace and I was dreading the dragging and crawling. I cut the bottom out of a 5 gallon paint can, set it over the opening, and fed the cable through it like a giant funnel from the outside and it worked perfectly. Has anyone else found a weird household item that made a tough install way easier?

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jesse_craig221mo ago

Man, that's genius (seriously, why didn't I think of that). I did something similar with a plastic coffee can lid to feed speaker wire through a tight wall plate once.