David Lesher wrote:
rangerssuck writes:

Should we argue if it unrolls top down, or bottom up???

=A 0 =A 0You haven't thought this through, have you? =A0if you want to
mini=
mize
the stress on what is on the reel, you want to unreel from the bottom.
it also lays better and doesn't try to climb out of the ditch.

A little humor-impaired today?

Indeed.

I don't plan to straddle the ditch with the forklift. For much
of the run, we'll be pulling duct off the reel and through the
woods, and laying it in the trench by hand.

A bigger PITA may be the HDPE pipe; it seems it does not come on
reels but in coils. I'm hoping I can put each on a empty reel of
some ilk...

OK, a few days ago I got chided for suggesting rolling the spool over
the trench - I didn't give a strong enough winkie-smiley to indicate
that I was joking - I knew about the dragging the pipe problem because
of the different radii.

But a coil? Heh, heh, heh - it sounds like you've got the manpower -
why not just unroll it right in the trench? ;-)

Cheers!
Rich