Abstract: A cable guiding and dispensing chute for use with a ground slitting or trenching implement includes two members releaseably secured together to define a J-shaped box-like structure to guide a plurality of cables which are being dispensed from a drum or reel and being placed in a slot in the ground. One of the cable chute members includes a pair of parallel, J-shaped sidewalls having different widths and being interconnected by a first cable guiding web. The second of the cable chute members is pivotally supported by the J-shaped sidewalls and includes a single sidewall component adjacent to and complementary with the smallest of said J-shaped sidewalls to define a chute wall conforming in size and shape with the largest of said J-shaped sidewalls. A plurality of additional cable guiding webs are connected to the second-member sidewall component and project substantially to the largest J-shaped sidewall to define, with said first web, a plurality of cable guiding conduits.