I've been promising the wife to run some new waterlines/faucets out to the horse and cow patches for a while now, and finally got around to building a pipe trencher to make the job a little easier.
I started with rolling a bend in some 1.5 tubing to make the trencher sleeve.
Reinforced it and made it "hinge-able" and removable when the making a few pre-burial passes and using it just as a subsoiler.
Next was to build a spool to hold the poly pipe tubing, the outside hub is removable to load 400 ft. rolls of tubing. The center of the spool is a 1500# hub assembly from Northern Tool. I had to recruit my dad to cut the hub and center the holes.
I built the spool boom a little bigger should the need arise to build a bigger spool for larger tubing and is removable to hook the attachment up to the tractor.
The implement weight was the most critical thing I ran into to keep my test runs below 16" with enough weight and a couple pre-passes I was able to keep the subsoiler well below that.
I started with rolling a bend in some 1.5 tubing to make the trencher sleeve.
Reinforced it and made it "hinge-able" and removable when the making a few pre-burial passes and using it just as a subsoiler.
Next was to build a spool to hold the poly pipe tubing, the outside hub is removable to load 400 ft. rolls of tubing. The center of the spool is a 1500# hub assembly from Northern Tool. I had to recruit my dad to cut the hub and center the holes.
I built the spool boom a little bigger should the need arise to build a bigger spool for larger tubing and is removable to hook the attachment up to the tractor.
The implement weight was the most critical thing I ran into to keep my test runs below 16" with enough weight and a couple pre-passes I was able to keep the subsoiler well below that.
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