homemade ripper

[TNGP]

So, the need for a tool has struck again! Have to put a hot wire up around the house once I'm feeling up to it. But to do this job, I need a ripper to help bury the wire to the fence. Looked around and found a single option for a 2" hitch mount. So, I asked a friend to help me make one and vuala! A mean looking ripper was born. I just tried it out in the woods. 4 inches down and the high range bogs. Flip to low range and it just goes until I hit a root. That stopped me in my tracks. Great ripper and didn't break the pin!

 

[roadhunter]

Nice!

 

[TNGP]

Thanks man! It works like a dream and my baby tractor can handle it. From a distance it's like I'm working with a Cat D9 (or at least in my mind it does)!

 

[stuckmotor]

Looks like it'll hold up. Can you go deeper by making successive passes in the same furrow?

 

[FredH]

Real Nice . :thumbsup:
Now add a piece of pipe down the back of it with a curve at the bottom that angles away from the direction of travel , thus when you start to lay your wire , You feed it through the pipe , secure end to something solid , then commence to rip and feed wire as you go .

Fred H.

 

[TNGP]

That angled pipe deal is a good idea and probably the next step. I didn't have time to do it for this project, but next project you can bet it'll be done!

Multiple passes and I can get it hitch deep. Bit on one pass I can get it about 10 inches in. The mud in the picture is from one pass.

 

[Gordon Gould]

You and your friend made a good looking ripper. Nice job!!

gg

 

[Renze]

Real Nice . :thumbsup:
Now add a piece of pipe down the back of it with a curve at the bottom that angles away from the direction of travel , thus when you start to lay your wire , You feed it through the pipe , secure end to something solid , then commence to rip and feed wire as you go .

Fred H.

You would need another pair of hands pushing the wire down into the pipe or friction will make the wire rip apart. Perhaps a pulley down below would work

 

[TNGP]

I wonder if you were to put a spool above a belled entrance if the friction would be enough to use unspool the wire in the trench. I wonder if the material of the tube would affect it any. If it were sch80 PVC with a gentle 90 degree turn at the bottom would allow the wire/cable to slide through.

 

[jwmorris]

I wonder if you were to put a spool above a belled entrance if the friction would be enough to use unspool the wire in the trench. I wonder if the material of the tube would affect it any. If it were sch80 PVC with a gentle 90 degree turn at the bottom would allow the wire/cable to slide through.

Sounds like what I did on the drip line plow I built. Some photos of it in #5 of this thread.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/336278-drip-tube-plow.html?highlight=Drip+line

Drip line is more fragile that most any wire you will come across. As most wire will at least withstand the stress of being pulled through conduit and the stress of "plowing" it would be much more local than pulling a long run through EMT.