It seems like you would want to use hardened
steel instead of aluminum for the knife.
How does it hold up? Are you saying you
only cut a 1/8" wide slit? That seems too
narrow.
Rick N6RK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-towertalk@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Don Havlicek
>
> I bury my coax with a device that I built that I pull behind my garden
> tractor .. it has a flat bed upon which I mount the coil of coax, and
> has a 'knife-blade' [made of a triangular piece of 1/8" aluminum panel
> stock] under it which cuts a swath in the turf .. it also has short
> lengths of aluminum tubing
> [various diameters from 3/8" up to 1.5"} projecting underneath the 'bed'
> which guide the coax, radial wire, etc... down into the 'slot'. I can
> 'bury' 200' of coax in about ten minutes, just driving the tractor from
> the shack to the antenna [or vice-versa].
>
> Think of it as a rectangle of three 2x12's laid side-by-side with a
> second layer of 2x6's around the outer edge to frame it. All connected
> with carriage bolts with the nuts recessed in the top edge of the 2x4's.
>
> The tubing through which the cable/wire runs is simply placed through
> holes of corresponding size drilled through the bed of 2x12's [rear-most
> one], and at a slight angle to the rear with the 'blade' of [in my case]
> stainless steel [not aluminum panel - that was the first one!]. This
> 'blade' is bolted to the middle 2x12 by two pieces of 1/8" aluminum
> stock that is bolted through the middle 2x12.
>
> There are eye-bolts on each side of the front 2x12 & 2x4 brace .. they
> are connected to the garden tractor with a length of chain that allows
> for turning the tractor without the rear of it contacting the burial
> 'sled'.
>
> On the top of the 'sled' are two pieces of angle [aluminum or steel -
> can't remember which], through which I can pass a rod that goes through
> the center of the roll of coax/wire/ etc....
>
> The wire is then fed down through the appropriate piece of tubing.
>
> I put two or three cinder blocks on the 'sled' .. and drive !!!
>
> If you have any questions about this device .... please let me know !
> 73
> Don
> N8DE
>
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