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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