burying wire with subsoiler advice

[botakix]

hey guys, i know its been posted on here a few times about how to rig up a piece of pvc or pipe, to a subsoiler and use it to pull and bury underground wire, but i am still a little confused. when you start the run, do you rig up something to hold the roll of wire, at the beginning of the run, and it unrolls as you drive along, or do you just tie off the end to something at the beginning of the run, and somehow rig up the roll to the back of the tractor, and let it unroll that way. i need to run lights to my horse arena, and am hoping to get by with underground wire, and not have to run it through conduit. i am pretty unmechanically inclined, so any help would be great. thanks guys

 

[kennyd]

I have built one...

The roll needs to be on the tractor, NOT on the ground as there would be to much resistance to pull the wire through the ground. I also made a dry run without wire in my soil that's really mostly shale.

 

[Renze]

We did that often to get electricity to our bush house, or to get electric fencing from the barns to the pastures.

There are some fancy cable ploughs witha long chute and a pulley, similar to drainage ploughs
IF you have time and a lot of cable to be ploughed, you could do that..

We used to take the bolt of the replaceable chisel off the ripper, and put a... i forgot the name.. a chain connector in the shape of a letter U, connected with a bolt through eyes in the top.. Anyways, we used that loop mounted behind the chisel to guide the cable.
Then you need to PUSH the cable into the trench by hand, through that ring, or otherwise the cable finds too much friction on the metal and damages, or you just rip it apart.
Its a 2 man operation, one operating the tractor in a very low gear, and the other feeding the cable.

When putting a cable in a trench just behind the ripper leg, you probably wont get it deeper than half the working depth of the ripper.

 

[MikeInEburg]

Check this link:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/122515-pulln-cable.html

The classic "a picture is worth a thousand words"...

Mike

 

[kennyd]

Check this link:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/122515-pulln-cable.html

The classic "a picture is worth a thousand words"...

Mike

Thanks Mike...I should have did that.

 

[Redbug]

Just a thought...why not run the subsoiler back and forth a few times with a small blade on it, to get a trench and lay grey electrical conduit with the wire inside? I know it's more work/money, but it would be a better long range installation. You could also run a couple spare wire pulling cords for future use.

 

[botakix]

hey guys,thanks for all the great info. i really didnt want to go through the trouble of pulling it through conduit, due to the extra expense and time, and thought the underground wire, with the subsoiler might be the best option. i will try it, and see how it goes. thanks again for clearing up the roll of wire issue, for me and the other helpful suggestions. come on summertime. LOL

 

[dqdave1]

You can pull pvc conduit just like the UF wire.

 

[botakix]

yeah but wouldnt you still have to pull the wire after you layed the conduit in the hole, with the subsoiler? i have some pretty long runs of wire, and wasnt looking forward to pulling it through conduit.

 

[2manyrocks]

How many feet of wire and what gauge wire are you wanting to install?