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[KiotiJohn]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( oops - my pic is 400k+ and the forum won't accept it. Can anybody out there reformat it below 100k? It's a jpg file.)</font>
Send it to me at mexjohn@bellsouth.net and I'll fix it up for you. John

 

[Freds]

Thanks John, I have those pics saved as a matter of fact. It's a slick system for running wire as you go.

Forgot to mention in my last post, Glenn, but pulling the pipe into the ground sounds like it could work as long as it went in and stayed in. I'm trying to do this without any help and am not sure how to keep feeding the pipe into the initial hole as I'm moving along.

Eric, I have a magnetic sensor from Dakota Alert. It is battery operated as opposed to "hardwired". At least the sending unit is. I used to have an infrared system but it was too hard to dial in. If it picked up a truck, it would not pick up a low car... I had it mounted all over the place and aimed across the drive at different angles, too. The unit I have now works on magnetic changes like when a car passes by and I like it better than the infrared, but it is sending me false alarms when there is thundertorm activity. I am told that by moving it into the center of my driveway I can turn down the sensitivity and get rid of a lot of these false alarms. Time will tell.
I like Dakota Alert because they have a 1000' range and a handheld receiving unit. It also doubles as a walkie-talkie and has a belt clip, too.
Doesn't fair too well with a brush hog, though, when it comes unclipped from a folded down ROPS and a low branch whacks it. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

I'll try to post their website in another post. I don't want to lose what I've typed so far.

 

[Freds]

OK, here's the website, I hope. It looks like they've changed the products slightly since when I got mine last winter, but they are still basically the same. I have the MURS alert with two handhelds, a base unit and the probe. They cut me a deal and are a great company to deal with. I didn't have to send back the infrared until I had received the new probe sensor. Very straight up company.
Dakota Alert

 

[GoodGuy]

Thanks, appreciate the info......
Eric

 

[MicroPilot]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ...I'm trying to do this without any help and am not sure how to keep feeding the pipe into the initial hole as I'm moving along.... )</font>

How about placing a LARGE rock in front of the pipe and the tractor once you get it started. I would think this would encourage the pipe to go underground rather than just slide along your trench.

 

[MicroPilot]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Not to steal this thread but would you share with us what driveway sensor system you bought and all the details. I've seen infrared units on e-bay but not hard wired systems.
Thanks
Eric )</font>

Check out www.smarthome.com. They have a number of different driveway sensor systems, plus all kinds of other kewl home automation/security gizmos.

 

[Freds]

There's an idea. I wonder if the neighbor would let me "borrow" one of the boulders he's using for landscaping, I haven't run across any rocks of decent proportions on my property, but I suppose even a tire parked on top of the trench once you get started would do.
I just got my angle iron and flat bar anyway, so this evening I hope to find out if my jig works or not.

 

[Freds]

Here's a few pics of my doohicky.
It works a lot better than just the subsoiler alone, but the trench still needs cleaned out. I guess that's why plow blades and middle busters have to rolls to their blades, to get the dirt up and out of the trench. I angled my homemade device thinking that it would lift the dirt out of the trench, but it doesn't noticeably. I also attached the legs to the angle iron so they would press flat against the walls of the trench, thinking that it would sompact the dirt and hold it from falling back in, but again, not noticeably. It WOULD give me a nice leading edge should I decide to attach the pipe to it and drag it under as suggested. It also works better on my gravel drive as opposed to grass because the sod still folds back in.
But like I said, it makes the subsoiler work better than it did yesterday.

 

[Freds]

another.
I made the brackets so they can stay on and be used to clamp conduit onto if I'm just burying wire or cable

 

[Freds]

at work