On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:48:55 -0500, "Robert11"
wrote:

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 ?

The cable tv company has a little vibrator thingy that works while the
guy stands up. It wiggles a blade, I think, and cuts a slit and puts
the wire in the slit at the same time. When he was done, I forget
if he had to walk on it once, but it looked good as new when he was
done.

It might have been gas powered since he does it all day. I don't
think it was electric and it certainly wasn't manual. And I'm sure
the wire wasn't more than 3 inches below the surface, maybe less.

I don't know if rental places have these or not, but for only 40 feet
with a kid some of the other ideas for slitting the ground sound good
enough.

Kids should do hard work between 12 or 13 and 29. It is so much
easier to build muscles then. The smarter they are or the more likely
they are to get a white collar job, the more they should do hard work,
at least some times, when they are that age, because the less likely
they are to do hard work at work, and they often even get white collar
summer jobs once they are in college.

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.



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