Best use of your riding mower would be to use it to cut your grass very
short - then within hours - lay down the radials by hand (silver solder to
their radial ring around the base of the vertical - wires straight and
taught for the entire length - held down by galvanized landscape pins and at
the end of each wire wrap around a pin pushed deep.
Set the mower a bit higher for the next few cuttings. Water to keep the sod
growing at a fast rate - if needed.
In 4 weeks or so - all radials will self burry and be gone under the sod.
After 5 years the radials are down about 6 inches - all on their own.
I've used this method to install thousands of feet of radials at several
different QTHs with no problems.
73,
Tim K3LR
-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dan Bookwalter
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 7:45 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Next Radial - Question
Ok , now on to my next question , what is the best way to lay these radials
down
using my riding mower ? As I will be running at least 5000 ft of radials
anywhere from 75ft to 200 ft long I would like to utilize my mower to lay
them
out and bury them too if possible.
Suggestions ?
Dan N8DCJ
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