flusher
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I've experimented with that approach. My problem is getting the second pass to follow the first one. Maybe with practice I'll improve my technique.
I have about 1000 feet of landscape irrigation PVC pipe (rigid type) to lay next month. My neighbor just did about 800 feet of trench with a Ditch Witch riding trencher ($300/day at Guy Rental). Works fine. I may go that route.
I've used my middle buster plow and my B7510HST to dig about 12"-deep trenches for landscape drain lines to carry water away from the house foundation. After fooling around with the 3pt top link, I got the plow to stop burying itself and got a nice V-shaped trench that only needed a little hand work with a shovel to get in shape.
I'll probably try this approach for my landscape irrigation pipe. Only need it buried about 12" to accommodate the sprinkler heads/risers.
The middle buster's main disadvantage is that it pushes a lot of dirt out of the trench compared to a subsoiler. The advantage is that the larger trench makes it easier to get a shovel working to remove the dirt that inevitably falls back into the trench.
Even with a Ditch Witch you need to dig a few inches deeper than your target depth because the trencher always leaves a few inches of fine powdered soil in the bottom of the trench.
Several folks in these forums have used the subsoiler to drag flexible PVC pipe into the ground for landscape irrigation. And IIRC someone has mentioned doing this with rigid PVC pipe. It's a neat approach, but you still have to dig out sections of the pipe to install some sort of tee (in-line or saddle-type) for your risers. Even if you install the tee before pulling the pipe into the ground, you still have to dig to install the sprinkler/riser. But this subsoiler approach has a benefit that's close to what you get with a vibratory plow, i.e. relatively little excavated dirt to push/shovel back into the trench.
So many options!!! What to do? What to do?
I have about 1000 feet of landscape irrigation PVC pipe (rigid type) to lay next month. My neighbor just did about 800 feet of trench with a Ditch Witch riding trencher ($300/day at Guy Rental). Works fine. I may go that route.
I've used my middle buster plow and my B7510HST to dig about 12"-deep trenches for landscape drain lines to carry water away from the house foundation. After fooling around with the 3pt top link, I got the plow to stop burying itself and got a nice V-shaped trench that only needed a little hand work with a shovel to get in shape.
I'll probably try this approach for my landscape irrigation pipe. Only need it buried about 12" to accommodate the sprinkler heads/risers.
The middle buster's main disadvantage is that it pushes a lot of dirt out of the trench compared to a subsoiler. The advantage is that the larger trench makes it easier to get a shovel working to remove the dirt that inevitably falls back into the trench.
Even with a Ditch Witch you need to dig a few inches deeper than your target depth because the trencher always leaves a few inches of fine powdered soil in the bottom of the trench.
Several folks in these forums have used the subsoiler to drag flexible PVC pipe into the ground for landscape irrigation. And IIRC someone has mentioned doing this with rigid PVC pipe. It's a neat approach, but you still have to dig out sections of the pipe to install some sort of tee (in-line or saddle-type) for your risers. Even if you install the tee before pulling the pipe into the ground, you still have to dig to install the sprinkler/riser. But this subsoiler approach has a benefit that's close to what you get with a vibratory plow, i.e. relatively little excavated dirt to push/shovel back into the trench.
So many options!!! What to do? What to do?
