The best thing to blow mule tape is a self contained Sullair (or equivalent) air compressor. You will have plenty of air pressure & volume. It will easily blow dirt, debris & water out of the conduit as well as blowing in mule tape. You will also need something to pull the cable(s). Some use their Larson trailer. Others use dedicated pulling winches, reels & pullys. You will likely need a figure 8 machine of some sort. A Larson trailer will work for that too.
Some other important thing to consider;
As a project manager l always made sure the same contractor who buried the conduit was the one who at least put the mule tape in. But I preferred they put the cable in too. The reason is they do a much better job of splicing the conduit, keeping dirt out and they have a backhoe to dig up their mistakes and usually know where they are.
if you are pulling fiber optic cable, most of the time the specifications are uncut continuous runs. So there is a good chance you will be threading multiple spans leaving a loops at each pedestal. watch out for long spans with no hand holes for pulling. Especially long curvy runs.
Most likely you will have to label the cable direction and/or house number. Sometime you will pull multiple tap tails the same direction that will need accurate labels
We have found that Two-way radios are better than cell phones
Bottom line,
get the Scope of Work, physically look at the job, may even blow a few runs to see if the conduit is plugged. And most importantly, then bid it to make money.
