[TowerTalk] Burying radials

[Dick Green WC1M]

And if it’s a 4-square, as in my case, you have to pre-cut all the trenches that cross or use bus wires and do a lot of soldering. 20 years ago I did the latter for my 40m 4-square, which has 65 radials per element. Took weeks to lay out the radials, pin them down with oversized bobby pins, solder them to the bus wires and copper tubing around the base of the elements, etc. Didn’t have to bury the radials because the array is in a former clearing that isn’t accessible to the brush hog and has grown over completely, trees and all.

 

Dick WC1M

 

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Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Burying radials

 

That would be my problem.  In fact, I would like to get them deep enough to not worry about it.  We ain’t talkin’ lawns here! That’s why I’ll probably rent a ditcher that buries the wire… 

 

Chuck W5PR

 

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From: Dick Green <mailto:wc1m73 at gmail.com> 
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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Burying radials

 

In my case, the radials need to go down in a large field that gets brush hogged once a year (by early July the grass is knee-high.)

 

After brush hogging I could cut the grass to the roots with a mower and lay the radials, and I'm sure they'd be overgrown by the next brush hogging. But even though the depth of the brush hog mower is adjusted relatively high, I'm sure that the blades occasionally dip down to the ground as the tractor follows the terrain, and would cut or pull up the radials. Also concerned about the weight of the tractor wheels.

 

I'd probably have to cordon off the area and now it frequently for at least a couple of years, and even the I'm not sure the radials would get buried enough to survive the brush hogging.

 

73, Dick WC1M

 

> On Mar 19, 2017, at 7:21 PM, <n8de at thepoint.net <mailto:n8de at thepoint.net> > <n8de at thepoint.net <mailto:n8de at thepoint.net> > wrote:

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> I put down 180 radials for 40m (3 verticals - 60 each) .. in less than an hour  no digging .. just mowed the grass to the roots ... laid the radials on the ground and pinned them down.

> Put down another 180 radials for my 3 80m verticals in about 90 minutes using the same method

> The radials have been down for about 9 years now with not one problem.

> 73

> Don

> N8DE

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> uoting greenacres113 at charter.net <mailto:greenacres113 at charter.net> :

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>>    We used a Troybilt walk edger. Depth adjustable. We went 3.5''. Took

>> abt 10 mins to dig 66' line for radials for our HyTower. We made slit,

>> cut the radial wire & buried 25 over 2 days.

>> 

>>    K9IL

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