Plowing Pipe in Pictures

[gabby]

The big disadvantage is if you don't have enough room to lay the pre-glued pipe out behind where you are pulling- then the poly would be an advantage.

Not near as much of a problem as using roll pipe. Try gluing up pvc joints and fittings and then try making up joints and fittings with roll pipe. Roll pipe joints are much more trouble to make up, they are prone to leaks, and the fittings with ring clamps cost more. It's a darn poor excuse for pipe.

 

[dieselscout80]

Here's a picture. I usually run it without the suitcase weights. The frame is a toolbar with seven slots so I can mount the foot in different positions. A simple subsoiler will work just as well. The front edge of the shank is sharp to slice neatly through the grass, that's very helpful.

Sometimes I make a dry run especially if I want to bury it extra deep or if the ground is dry and hard.

Thanks

What HP is your tractor?

I have a IH 424 that is about 40HP and I'd like to do the same this you did.

 

[gabby]

Mine is 50+ hp but I think you can do it by making one or two dry runs just don't try to go too deep each time or you will spin out and make a mess. You will be amazed how simple and neat it is compared to trenching and the mess that makes. Good luck!

 

[dieselscout80]

Mine is 50+ hp but I think you can do it by making one or two dry runs just don't try to go too deep each time or you will spin out and make a mess. You will be amazed how simple and neat it is compared to trenching and the mess that makes. Good luck!

Is 3/4" pipe the biggest dia PVC pipe you pulled?


I'd like to start of with at least 1.25" but 1.5" would be best.

 

[gabby]

Is 3/4" pipe the biggest dia PVC pipe you pulled?


I'd like to start of with at least 1.25" but 1.5" would be best.

I've pulled up to 2 inch diameter so you shouldn't have any problems.

 

[EMB5530]

This thread is a kawink a dink this past weekend I just finished making one of these sub-soiler/pipe burying tools out of an old (partially bent)chisel that a friend of mine gave me.
He told me: "Oh youl never get that little 50 horse tractor to burry that thing without it just sitting there and spinning out youl probably have to make 3 or 4 passes to subsoil or burry pipe"
Not so much the 5530 droped it right in and pulled it great the only limit is the 3-point I have to adjust it when I get where I want to start if I wanna burry it deeper than about 19 inches but if I adjust the arms I can go about 26 I havent tried yet but this weekend I am going to adjust it all the way down and see if I can pull it at 30 inches if I can then I will have electricity down at my pond for irrigation on my fruit trees next year(instead of using generator).
The chissel dosent require any weight to pull into the ground it does a pretty good job at burrying itself but I am not sure this will hold true when I start to adjust it down even deeper but I will see soon.
What a better way to burry pipe than rentin a trencher or borrowing my bosses mini-x
No real backfilling required just drive back over it.:thumbsup:

Oh the Exciting times of owning a Nice Powerfull 4x4 tractor
It makes it much more fun to build stuff

 

[hizoot]

This is great! Its going to be so much easier to install a sprinkler system....

 

[wrooster]

Not near as much of a problem as using roll pipe. Try gluing up pvc joints and fittings and then try making up joints and fittings with roll pipe. Roll pipe joints are much more trouble to make up, they are prone to leaks, and the fittings with ring clamps cost more. It's a darn poor excuse for pipe.

I think you are overlooking one thing -- the advantage with pulling rolled poly pipe off of a large reel is that there are no joints, except at the ends. If you put glued-up PVC in the ground, there is a joint every 10, 12, or 15 feet -- and two solvent welds at each joint.

Wrooster

 

[nspec]

You guys all make me jealous. We've got so many rocks up here in New England, I wouldn't get 2 feet with a subsoiler!

 

[GPintheMitten]

Your post got me thinking. I need to bury electric wire 18" deep minimum for about a 200 foot run. Does anyone bury wire this way? or would it tear up the insulation?

I don't remember the exact wire spec, but it is buriable 4-8 wire.