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Re: [TowerTalk] Burying radials

To: n8de@thepoint.net
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Burying radials
From: Dick Green <wc1m73@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 21:03:02 -0400
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In my case, the radials need to go down in a large field that gets brush hogged 
once a year (by early July the grass is knee-high.)

After brush hogging I could cut the grass to the roots with a mower and lay the 
radials, and I'm sure they'd be overgrown by the next brush hogging. But even 
though the depth of the brush hog mower is adjusted relatively high, I'm sure 
that the blades occasionally dip down to the ground as the tractor follows the 
terrain, and would cut or pull up the radials. Also concerned about the weight 
of the tractor wheels.

I'd probably have to cordon off the area and now it frequently for at least a 
couple of years, and even the I'm not sure the radials would get buried enough 
to survive the brush hogging.

73, Dick WC1M

> On Mar 19, 2017, at 7:21 PM, <n8de@thepoint.net> <n8de@thepoint.net> wrote:
> 
> I put down 180 radials for 40m (3 verticals - 60 each) .. in less than an 
> hour  no digging .. just mowed the grass to the roots ... laid the radials on 
> the ground and pinned them down.
> Put down another 180 radials for my 3 80m verticals in about 90 minutes using 
> the same method
> The radials have been down for about 9 years now with not one problem.
> 73
> Don
> N8DE
> 
> 
> Q
> uoting greenacres113@charter.net:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>    We used a Troybilt walk edger. Depth adjustable. We went 3.5''. Took
>> abt 10 mins to dig 66' line for radials for our HyTower. We made slit,
>> cut the radial wire & buried 25 over 2 days.
>> 
>>    K9IL
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