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Re: Topband: [Bulk] Re: tool for install radials

To: Herbert Schoenbohm <herbert.schoenbohm@gmail.com>, topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: [Bulk] Re: tool for install radials
From: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 08:45:56 -0800
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Cool, never seen one.  A nice tool but probably $25k+.

Another way I've used to install a 6000' long water line is to use a single blade ripper to pull 200' lengths of 1" PVC using a Kellems grip (Chinese finger grabber) as shown in the video. We dug a small hole at the end of each pull for the couplings and feeding in the next section. I used my ride on Ditch Witch for the rocky sections.

My mid size Deere 4wd tractor (55hp PTO) has more than enough pull for a 1.25" thick ripper down 15" in a pasture. A medium or larger lawn tractor would probably pull a 1/4" or 3/8" thick ripper down an inch or two. That should work for radials (or small conduits, coax) by pulling the radial wire from a spool at the central grounding point. It shouldn't be too hard to fabricate from steel plate with a hole drilled near the bottom to tie the wire. Weld it on to a trailer ball stub to fit whatever the tractor has a mount. Remove it at the end of each pull. Repeat.

Grant KZ1W


On 12/9/2014 7:51 AM, Herbert Schoenbohm wrote:
Here is a You Tube Video on how neat this all works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6crDgLV45A



Herb, KV4FZ

On 12/9/2014 11:06 AM, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
Hi Herb

This will be ideal!

Is just n idea or you know about it? Some photos?

no rocks, only grass and agricultural land, could make a channel with a
shovel, but I'm looking for something more practical for many radial

Thanks,
Jorge


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De: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com] En nombre de Herbert
Schoenbohm
Enviado el: martes, 09 de diciembre de 2014 12:42 p.m.
Para: topband@contesting.com
Asunto: Re: Topband: tool for install radials

Probably the best item for installing radials is a small vibrating plow on
the back of a lawn tractor.  Dig only one hole. put in the blade and the
radial wire on a spool above is fed through a hole in the hollow plow blade which effortlessly drives along unspooling the wire and leaving only a small
slit in the ground which disappears in days.
However, it doesn't work well in rocky terrain. Some people I have heard use
a chain saw but you must be very careful with that method.


Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
On 12/9/2014 9:45 AM, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
Hello


I think there´s a tool to make a line in the ground to put radials.


Couldn´t find it in website, don´t know the name in English


Could you please help me to find it or send me close up photos of
yours to try to ask someone locally to make one?


Thanks in advance


73,

Jorge

CX6VM/CW5W



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