[TowerTalk] rg-6 flooded cable wtd

[Terry Dunlap]

At 11:41 AM 2/5/98 -0800, you wrote:
>At 11:29 AM -0800 2/5/98, Scott Bullock wrote:
>
>>>Ron K9YY bought a used electric chain saw at a garage sale and used it to
>>>bury his cable with...it worked great  ...neighbors thought he was crazy
>>>chain sawing the ground but it make a perfect hole to put the RG6U in... A
>>>little messy but it did the job...
>>
>>This idea deserves the prize of the year! Very ingenuitive! I'm gonna use
>>that this spring to bury cables here-with an old chain tho.
>
>Be VERY careful, Scott!  If that chain hits a rock and comes apart, it can
>take your head off!


You also need to take into consideration the abrasiveness of the soil.  If
you have a lot of "trench" to cut, you run the risk of enlarging the slot
in the bar to the point of being dangerous. 

73 de Terry KK6T

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