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@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Donald
Chester
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 1:05 PM
To: towertalk@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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