This is the radial plow I used to put in 60 radials under my full-size 160 vertical. It was originally an ag implement called a middle-buster, and it was originally built by W4PK and improved by me. It goes through most roots, and it dislodges small rocks but can't do a thing with really big rocks. I used a compact diesel tractor, but it could be adapted to anything that has 10-20 HP.
< https://drive.google.com/?tab=mo&authuser=0#folders/0B3V9JKlc_l_ZMWlOZFJWUXp2VDg > It takes about 60 seconds for one person to put down one 150 foot radial. The small slit in the ground disappears in a day or so. 73, geo - n4ua On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Bill and Liz <ma...@isp.ca> wrote: > I recall that Home Depot had a small walk-behind trencher for doing > sprinkler lines. It rented for about $85 per day (this was 5 years or so > ago) and I figured that I could do perhaps 40 radials 100+ ft in length in > a full day as long as I did not run into rocks. The best deal turned out > to be renting it from Friday evening until Sunday evening for $125. As it > turned out, the store which had it stopped renting it a couple of weeks > before I wanted it so I ended up laying the radials on the ground and > scraping buckets of topsoil off the plowed field to cover them. I'm sure > there are lots of places which rent small trenchers and vibrating plows for > the DIY crowd. For those who might be interested in doing what I did and > cover the wire with earth, it took about 5 cu yds of soil and a LOT of > shovelling to cover 64 radials varying in length from 75 ft to 130 ft 2" > deep and perhaps a foot wide. > > Bill VE3NH > > > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband