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

[Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>]

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
> >
> >
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > 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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