Topband: tool for install radials

[Bill and Liz]

I recall that Home Depot had a small walk-behind trencher for doing 
sprinkler lines.  It rented for about $85 per day (this was 5 years or so 
ago) and I figured that I could do perhaps 40 radials 100+ ft in length in a 
full day as long as I did not run into rocks.  The best deal turned out to 
be renting it from Friday evening until Sunday evening for $125.  As it 
turned out, the store which had it stopped renting it a couple of weeks 
before I wanted it so I ended up laying the radials on the ground and 
scraping buckets of topsoil off the plowed field to cover them.  I'm sure 
there are lots of places which rent small trenchers and vibrating plows for 
the DIY crowd.  For those who might be interested in doing what I did and 
cover the wire with earth, it took about 5 cu yds of soil and a LOT of 
shovelling to cover 64 radials varying in length from 75 ft to 130 ft 2" 
deep and perhaps a foot wide.

Bill VE3NH