[TowerTalk] Burying radials

Patrick Greenlee patrick_g at windstream.net
Mon Mar 20 09:30:59 EDT 2017


If you have a tractor capable of using a brush hog then it is capable of 
pulling a home brew (or COTS) wire burying ground slitting device 
similar to what te contractors use for burying residential phone wires 
in rural areas. You could modify a sub-soiler or other plow style fairly 
easily if you weld or relatively inexpensively if you have to hire the 
welding.  I have a compact tractor with under 40HP at the PTO and it is 
trivial to pull such a dirt engaging implement.

Patrick        NJ5G


On 3/19/2017 8:03 PM, Dick Green wrote:
> 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> <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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>> Q
>> uoting 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.
>>>
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