Topband: tool for install radials

[john]

thanks John, this is also very helpful    73 john

On 12/10/2014 03:38, John K9UWA wrote:
> I did nearly the same as Mike by just laying the radials out on top of the
> grass.
> It went like this. Last Grass cutting in the fall I cut the grass as short as the
> mower would go.
> I put  5 or 6 rolls of wire on a 10foot long piece of  steel  conduit. Then the
> wife on one end and me on the other end walked to the end of our property.
> I cut off the 6 wires. Flipped them apart a bit and back to the tower for the
> next batch of 5 or 6 at a time. In about 2 hours the wife and I put out 100
> radials. All were small diameter teflon insulated wire. The next day I tied all
> of them to the tower and ground rods near the tower.
>
> The following spring we cut the grass TALL about 4 inches for about 1/2 the
> summer and then it was back to cut normal as you couldn't even see the
> wires.
>
> That method will not work with Florida St Augustine Grass but works fine we
> normal grass.
>
> For guys who don't want to try it that way consider renting this gadget
> designed to bury cable TV lines coax and other wires.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGa-3HY38W4
>
> John k9uwa
>
>
>
>> Jorge,
>> The following year I just laid the wire on the ground (tightly), pinned it
>> down here and there with small homemade staples and in a couple months, the
>> grass ate them up and they were virtually gone.  I did lose a few of the "on the
>> ground" radials to the nasty mower blade, but rolling out a spool of wire using
>> a home made handle was pretty darn quick. I could probably do 20 or more an hour
>> compare to 5 or 6 an hour using the mower.
>>
>> I will not cut slots again.
>>
>> Mike VE9AA
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