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Chuck, WA
06-05-2002 05:14:05
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Re: 3 pt. trenching tool? in reply to Ultradog MN, 06-03-2002 20:41:52
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I was hoping to see somebody had home-built something since I've been thinking about that as well. In my case, it's wanting to cut some trenches for mostly water lines for underground sprinklers and also some 4" lines for some drain lines in clay soil that pretty free of rocks. I'd like to get down to a couple of feet (shallow frost line around here), even if in two or three passes. There's not enough work to justify buying a new tool, but too much to hand dig. I was toying with mounting a hunk of good size angle iron - 3" or 4" - on a 3-pt frame, on a slightly forward angle, with the corner towards the back, and the bottom end cut so as to provide something of a pair of points. I'd set depth using the 3-pt and draft control. The idea would be to have the angled "trough" bring the soil to the surface and let it fall to the sides. I'm a newbie at this stuff, and pretty naive, so don't know if it would work, but have been thinking about it. I'd pull it with my MF35 diesel. The fall back if I don't do something about it by the time I'm ready is to rent a ditch witch, but figured that if I could come up with something, it would be handy to have around. Still hoping somebody out there has tried something like that. However, it's a simple enough concept and would be handy enough to have around that I'd suspect that if it was practical, somebody would be selling one. A subsoiler would be OK, but wouldn't bring the soil out of the trench, and a middle buster wouldn't get deep enough and would be wider than I want. 4" is a good width because that would accommodate drain pipe or anything smaller. Any tinkers out there that have done this? Given my fairly soft and rock-free soil, any thoughts as to whether this is practical? I guess I don't want to put monery into it, plus time to assemble and in the first five feet have it turn into a pretzel.
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