I buried a cable in a friends yard last year, and just used a trenching
shovel (the narrowest one possible).
One advantage to this over machinery, is that you can peel the sod off and
put it aside, dig 5 or 6 feet of trench,
saving the dirt in a wheelbarrow, lay in your cable for that segment of
trench, rebury, put the sod back, etc, repeat until you're there.
The trench was about 45' and the whole thing took 4 hours. The best part
was with the sod going right back, and the dirt never piled in the grass,
you could tell it ever happened. An electrical contractor bid this at $1100
with a ditchwitch, and the lawn would have been a disaster.

bill

"Robert11" wrote in message
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Hi,

Have to run about 40 feet or so of coax wire to a receiving antenna in my
backyard.

Wish to bury it, probably not more than a foot to two feet deep should do
it.

Other than using a square tipped shovel (or forcing my kid to do it), was
wondering if anyone has any "clever" ideas
on other possible ways of digging this very narrow (slit type) of trench ?

Getting on inyears now, and it sounds like a lot of work.
Is there some tool other than the shovel that I might rent, or... ?

Thanks,
B.