mini trencher

[jdogg]

do they make some small portable mini trencher, i don't need to got far in the ground just to bury the wires

[AntAltMike]

The last time I priced a trencher, it costs around $10,000. You can probably rent one for $100 to $200. Just make sure that your local digging authority has been notified and your underground utilities have been marked before you start.

[armophob]

Yep, shaped like a large pointed spoon and powered by your foot. Just ask the big box home improvement center for a "shovel".:p

[Mike500]

www.easytrench.com

They can be rented at most Hone Depots.

[glennb]

www.easytrench.com

They can be rented at most Hone Depots.

Home Depot might also rent it.
:D

[joe diamond]

After years of searching I found a wire dig in tool at a garden center. It is actually a bed edger. It is a shaft about four feet long & has a moon shaped blade. Your foot goes inside an arch over the blade and you roll the blade along with the handel from left to right , then back an forth to make a clean fast six inch deep slit in the lawn. Cost about twenty -five bucks.

And you can edge flower beds with it.

Joe

[armophob]

After years of searching I found a wire dig in tool at a garden center. It is actually a bed edger. It is a shaft about fou7r feet long & hads a moon shaped blade. Your foot goes inside an arch over the blade and you roll the blade along with the hander from left to right and then back an forth to make a clean fast six inch deep slit in the lawn. Cost about ternty five bucks.

And you can edge flower beds with it.

Joe

Is it sharp and strong enough to cut through medium roots? Not the big stuff of couse.

[jdogg]

After years of searching I found a wire dig in tool at a garden center. It is actually a bed edger. It is a shaft about four feet long & has a moon shaped blade. Your foot goes inside an arch over the blade and you roll the blade along with the handel from left to right , then back an forth to make a clean fast six inch deep slit in the lawn. Cost about twenty -five bucks.

And you can edge flower beds with it.

Joe

can you send a link or a pic?

[gfrang]

What i did i took a small garden shovel sharpened it so it would cut into any roots.
I did not dig the dirt up ,went in at a 45deg angle and lifted grass up on one side and put cable in and put grass back as i went along.

[bhanks]

can you send a link or a pic?

jdogg, don't know if this the same, but sounds like it. It only makes about a
4 1/2" trench. They may have a larger one, but this would probabaly work.
"The Yard Butler" from Lowe's.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d28/mabhanks/P1090003Small-1.jpg

[joe diamond]

jdogg, don't know if this the same, but sounds like it. It only makes about a
4 1/2" trench. They may have a larger one, but this would probably work.
"The Yard Butler" from Lowe's.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d28/mabhanks/P1090003Small-1.jpg

That is close enough.......Mine is a little smaller and a cool red paint.

BTW......Avoid cutting large roots......run the cable outside the drip line of the tree. If you really gotta go under a tree......make a tunnel with a dish mast under the root. If you cut a root ,it grows back with many more little roots and these can ding the cable if driven upon.

The picture shows the type tool to use............cable companies made a similar thing that was much bigger and heavier with a way to attach the cable to the blade........too big to carry!

Joe