turbodog
Flashaholic
Posting this in case it helps someone; it worked pretty well for me.
This weekend I decided to bury a wire for power to my shed to keep from having to continually trip over the extension cord I had been using. I knew I didn't have to bury it very deep. The cable run was about 115' though... a good bit longer that I wanted to dig by hand. I was too cheap to rent a ditch-witch, and it would dig too deeply hitting the sewer line most likely.
I have a commercial stihl edger, but the blade was only about 1/8" thick which isn't exactly optimum width to lay 10-3 cable.
I took the edger blade, clamped it in a vise, cut 3 grooves into the end at approximately equal spacing. I then bent these tabs in and out (alternating). To visualize, hold your hand up with fingers together (except thumb). The spaces between the fingers are the cuts.
I put the blade back in the edger, cranked, revved, touched it to the ground, and promptly got COVERED in a HUGE shower of dirt. Retrieved hat, goggles, earplugs. Away I went...
On a scale of 1 to 10, it was about an 8. It dug well, but the extra dirt it moved kept getting packed in around the safety shield. This required cleaning about every 5 minutes with a screwdriver. I don't know how well this would be with an electric unit or a cheap gas one though.
I ended up with a trench about 1" wide and 2.5" deep, hopefully this'll be fine.
If you do this 'mod' and hurt yourself or anyone else, it's probably Darrel's fault.
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This weekend I decided to bury a wire for power to my shed to keep from having to continually trip over the extension cord I had been using. I knew I didn't have to bury it very deep. The cable run was about 115' though... a good bit longer that I wanted to dig by hand. I was too cheap to rent a ditch-witch, and it would dig too deeply hitting the sewer line most likely.
I have a commercial stihl edger, but the blade was only about 1/8" thick which isn't exactly optimum width to lay 10-3 cable.
I took the edger blade, clamped it in a vise, cut 3 grooves into the end at approximately equal spacing. I then bent these tabs in and out (alternating). To visualize, hold your hand up with fingers together (except thumb). The spaces between the fingers are the cuts.
I put the blade back in the edger, cranked, revved, touched it to the ground, and promptly got COVERED in a HUGE shower of dirt. Retrieved hat, goggles, earplugs. Away I went...
On a scale of 1 to 10, it was about an 8. It dug well, but the extra dirt it moved kept getting packed in around the safety shield. This required cleaning about every 5 minutes with a screwdriver. I don't know how well this would be with an electric unit or a cheap gas one though.
I ended up with a trench about 1" wide and 2.5" deep, hopefully this'll be fine.
If you do this 'mod' and hurt yourself or anyone else, it's probably Darrel's fault.
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif