[TowerTalk] Burying Radials

[Dale Dean]

Don,

Can you send a picture of your modified Troy-Built setup?  I have a Troy-Built and would like to fabricate a similar set up.

Dale
AF7WH

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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Donald Chester
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 1:05 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Burying Radials


I tried using a lawn edger, but the problem was dirt falling back, and flung back by the edger blade, and filling in the slit before I could push the wire in.  I finally gave up in frustration and fabricated a home-made plough patterned after the big ones the phone company uses to bury telephone wire, and that professionals use to lay radials for broadcast stations.  It has a sharp leading edge that cuts the slit, and a tube brazed to the rear edge that lays the wire, all in one operation.  I cut the pieces out of  scrap metal I had lying around, and took it to a welding shop and let them assemble it.   I attached it to a heavy duty Troy-Built rear-tine garden tiller I borrowed, with the tines temporarily removed, and with an assistant, laid 16,000 feet of #12 soft drawn copper in four days.  120 quarter-wave  radials for 160.  It would have taken me months of  daily work to have buried them by hand using a spade.

Don, k4kyv
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