diy attachment to pull pipe or at least dig a trench?

   / diy attachment to pull pipe or at least dig a trench? #11  
You don't have enough traction with that to dig a trench. You can rent a trencher at Home Depot from about $100, I think that's your best bet.

X2. I think your asking for trouble trying that on the lawn tractor, it might damage the hydrostatic transmission.
 
   / diy attachment to pull pipe or at least dig a trench? #12  
Option 1. Dig by hand
Option 2. Rent a machine
Option 3. Hire it done.

What you have is a lawn mower. You cannot Trench with a lawn mower.
 
   / diy attachment to pull pipe or at least dig a trench? #13  
Option 1. Dig by hand
Option 2. Rent a machine
Option 3. Hire it done.

What you have is a lawn mower. You cannot Trench with a lawn mower.
That sounds like a challenge to the TBN lawnmower crowd!
 
   / diy attachment to pull pipe or at least dig a trench? #14  
   / diy attachment to pull pipe or at least dig a trench? #15  
Trenching in poly pipe 6" deep in my soil would be a challenge for a deere x7 series. Maybe downhill? And a deere x7 series probably has about 3x the pull power than a lawn mower with tiny rear turfs.

What he pictures, I doubt would pull a knife to make a 1' hole only 3" deep downhill. If you want a good anchor or park break....go ahead and rig up an anchor to it.

Common sense is right
 
   / diy attachment to pull pipe or at least dig a trench? #16  
I did that exact thing and broke my toplink. My subsoiler didn't have enough range of motion on the toplink attachment for it to be turned around. When I lifted it, the toplink snapped.

Ouch!! My little Kioti is only 22-hp so I don't think it can break anything, might be wrong about that. My subsoiler has a sheer bolt. Got it to pull behind a slightly larger, 52-hp, tractor at times.

But thanks for the warning, I will be careful.
 
   / diy attachment to pull pipe or at least dig a trench? #18  
Option 1. Dig by hand
Option 2. Rent a machine
Option 3. Hire it done.

What you have is a lawn mower. You cannot Trench with a lawn mower.
ANY lawnmower or his little lawnmower?
Trenching in poly pipe 6" deep in my soil would be a challenge for a deere x7 series. Maybe downhill? And a deere x7 series probably has about 3x the pull power than a lawn mower with tiny rear turfs.

What he pictures, I doubt would pull a knife to make a 1' hole only 3" deep downhill. If you want a good anchor or park break....go ahead and rig up an anchor to it.

Common sense is right
First of all please don't insult the TBN crowd by implying we have common sense.
I'm pretty sure someone like you or rswyan could "hop up" A lawnmower (where is the dividing line?)
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and slit trench a cable. Might need to be done in beach sand at first. But it sounds like a challenge.

Especially to the "Tim the Toolman" types.
 

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   / diy attachment to pull pipe or at least dig a trench? #19  
That's not a lawn mower....that's a garden tractor;)

If we want to hash out the differences between lawn mower, garden tractor, SCUT, etc again.....I don't think I have the patience and will unsubscribe from this thread.

So in the context of this thread, and what the OP has, and what he wants to accomplish: I'll stand by my statement that a lawnmower ain't gonna work. No point in debating the semantics about it with me.
 
 
 
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