Trench digger

aaluck

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Fabrication may be a stretch.... but made. I have been digging a lot to bury direct burial power lines to various spots. Been using a piece of flat steel and it has worked. Recently I changed my bush hog blades and thought they would really improve my digging. The shape lends to a turning of the soil out of the trench and makes a great little trench. Just unbolt the one row plow and attach the blade.
 

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GreensvilleJay

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hope you member WHERE the lines are buried.... for sure my subsoiler would snag it, and the 'deep' plow probably
neighbour told Bell Canada to go 'deep'....that fall...oopsy.. it gets replaced, told Bell again.. that Spring ,oospy...FOUR times they replaced it.....next time they went overhead,on hydro poles....
sigh
 
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skeets

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If you bend a piece of EMT and bolt it to the shank you can pull your trench and lay the cable at the same time,,, OH yeah mark the cables too
 
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aaluck

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L4400HST, Bush Hog 276, RDTH60, Speeco PHD, etc
Oct 9, 2019
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Snowdoun, AL
If you bend a piece of EMT and bolt it to the shank you can pull your trench and lay the cable at the same time,,, OH yeah mark the cables too
I thought about that and wish I would have done that from the get go. Since moving here 2 years ago I have buried over 1,500 feet of line.
 

MDCobraMan

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Great idea, now I wish I didn't just scrap my old blades 2 weeks ago.
 
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Pepsirich

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L3200 w LA524, Bushhog, Rock Rake, 48" Pallet Forks, Auger, 16ft dump, F250
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How deep will it bury the lines? I need to do a 100 ft stretch and my hand 12 HP trencher is getting to be a bear for this old man
 

bearskinner

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I used a root cutter with a widening “V” on my backhoe, ( in place of the bucket) with a piece of PVC conduit and a 90 sweeper on the bottom, facing rear. My buddy walked along, feeding buried cable down the conduit, and it really went quick installing a 400’ electrical cable out to my front entry for AC power.
 
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