Topband: [Bulk] Re: tool for install radials

[Grant Saviers]

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.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6crDgLV45A
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> Herb, KV4FZ
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> 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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>> -----Mensaje original-----
>> De: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] En nombre de Herbert
>> Schoenbohm
>> Enviado el: martes, 09 de diciembre de 2014 12:42 p.m.
>> Para: topband at 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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