middle buster
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Farwell
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Ronbo3,
Wish I had caught the price mark down. TSC must have a few mental giants making financial decisions. If I have stock in a company and I find out that the company is doing things like that I sell as soon as possible. I have been wrong only a few times in doing so.
Farwell
Wish I had caught the price mark down. TSC must have a few mental giants making financial decisions. If I have stock in a company and I find out that the company is doing things like that I sell as soon as possible. I have been wrong only a few times in doing so.
Farwell
deere755
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How well would a middle buster work to bury an electric line. I am just going from my garage to my pole barn, it's about 40 feet. My other question is would my 755 2wd handle it and how deep can you bury something with it. I was looking at our farm store ad and for the price of renting a trencher I can buy a middle buster. Are they handy for other jobs as well?
Bob_Skurka
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If you are trenching high voltage lines, you may have a local code that tells you how deep you have to go. It may be something like 12"? A middle buster for a small tractor is only going to go about 6" deep. A sub-soiler is going to go roughly 10" to 12" deep depending on the brand. I think it might be less work to rent a trencher than to use a middle buster. The trencher will leave you a clean trench. The middle buster will leave spoils in the trench that you will have to dig out to lay down your wire. As you are doing high voltage, you will probably want to enclose it in conduit, which again would favor the trencher for the task. If you could get a sub-soiler instead of a middle buster, then you could spend a hour or so rigging up a cable & pipe puller as I described above and get your wire down about a foot.
Personally, I'd probably rent a trencher unless the land was flat and open and I wanted to build something out of my sub-soiler. But if the choice was a middle buster or a trencher, I would choose the trencher every time. Realise too that you are working a fairly short run of wire, and you have to hand dig the beginning and the end (the length of the tractor to the wall) so you might find it much easier to do with the trencher.
The thing I built, and the thing others have built is great for long runs, but it is not great in smaller areas and is a pain when you get up to the ends because of the hand digging.
As for the 755, I'm sorry but I'm not familiar with that model. If it is a 2 wd tractor roughly similar to a 790, then I'd say you could pull a sub-soiler/middlebuster through most soils.
Personally, I'd probably rent a trencher unless the land was flat and open and I wanted to build something out of my sub-soiler. But if the choice was a middle buster or a trencher, I would choose the trencher every time. Realise too that you are working a fairly short run of wire, and you have to hand dig the beginning and the end (the length of the tractor to the wall) so you might find it much easier to do with the trencher.
The thing I built, and the thing others have built is great for long runs, but it is not great in smaller areas and is a pain when you get up to the ends because of the hand digging.
As for the 755, I'm sorry but I'm not familiar with that model. If it is a 2 wd tractor roughly similar to a 790, then I'd say you could pull a sub-soiler/middlebuster through most soils.
OkieG
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There are two types of tractor jobs...those you can do, and those you can't. Of the ones you can do, some would be more easily and efficiently done with a larger/heavier/4wd tractor. I think middlebuster on a 2wd 755 falls into that category. It may take two or more passes to get you where you want to go, but I think you could do it.
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Farwell
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Deere755,
If you have a use for a sub soiler in other areas they do have their uses. I use mine quite a bit for directing snow melt run off. It helps rip up smaller tree and brush roots I have done some trenching with a middle buster but what it does for me is break the ground surface and rip out weed roots to make it easier to dig by hand if I want or need to go deeper than a foot. 40 feet in good soil is do-able by hand. 40 feet in hard clay with tree roots, rocks etc, will seem like miles by hand.
I too like a trencher and if I was going to run high voltage or under-ground piping I would pay the money and rent the trencher or dig the trench by hand depending on code requirements and soil type. I have a 42 inch frost line so if I run water I need the depth. The type of soil you have is also a determining factor. My soil is 12 inches of top soil over sand and I have to dig early in the year while the sand is still moist before it turns into sugar sand.
Of course I would love to have a back hoe.
Farwell
If you have a use for a sub soiler in other areas they do have their uses. I use mine quite a bit for directing snow melt run off. It helps rip up smaller tree and brush roots I have done some trenching with a middle buster but what it does for me is break the ground surface and rip out weed roots to make it easier to dig by hand if I want or need to go deeper than a foot. 40 feet in good soil is do-able by hand. 40 feet in hard clay with tree roots, rocks etc, will seem like miles by hand.
I too like a trencher and if I was going to run high voltage or under-ground piping I would pay the money and rent the trencher or dig the trench by hand depending on code requirements and soil type. I have a 42 inch frost line so if I run water I need the depth. The type of soil you have is also a determining factor. My soil is 12 inches of top soil over sand and I have to dig early in the year while the sand is still moist before it turns into sugar sand.
Of course I would love to have a back hoe.
Farwell
TheSmartFarmer
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We sell a middle buster that is a heavier duty model than the howse and most other potato lows and it is only 99.99 in our store so if you have any questions feel free to e-mail me about it. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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I think that KK yellow implements are their "standard" products for "full-size" CUTS. The KK red implements are from their "sub-CUT" product line, aka the "XB" line. Check the KK website.
I have a yellow KK 48" brush hog (weighs 420 lb) and a red 48" KK XB box blade (weighs 295lb). The corresponding red 48" XB hog weighs 400 lb and has twin rear wheels. And the yellow 48" box blade weighs 350 lb.
I have a yellow KK 48" brush hog (weighs 420 lb) and a red 48" KK XB box blade (weighs 295lb). The corresponding red 48" XB hog weighs 400 lb and has twin rear wheels. And the yellow 48" box blade weighs 350 lb.