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<blockquote data-quote="luke strawwalker" data-source="post: 486266" data-attributes="member: 7455"><p>I did something quite similar with my old Dearborn subsoiler and it worked great. What I did though was to take a couple scrap pieces of 1/8 inch thick steel plate, about a foot or so wide and about 2 feet long, and make torch cuts in it about 2 or 3 inches long and then skip an inch or two, so I could get a clean bend. I torched a couple or three bolt holes thru the plate to correspond to some bolt holes through the subsoiler shank and then bolted it up, heated the plate and bent it out slightly, and then on a second line of cuts bent it back straight to widen out the 'slot' into a 'bell' shape between the two plates to the size of a lawnmower belt idler pulley. Once everything was nice and parallel, I pulled the plates off and ran a 6011 welding bead over the cuts to strengthen the steel back up, and then installed it back on the shank and installed the pulley a couple inches away from the bottom and put a couple big 1 1/2 inch nuts at the top between the plates, and put a 5/8 bolt thru the plates and nuts and out the other side and put a 5/8 nut on that to stiffen the whole thing up and provide a 'guide' for the tubing. I then used it to lay a 400 foot roll of black plastic water line right thru the yard, gate, pasture, and to where I wanted my troughs. I dug a 'starter hole' about a foot deep and pulled about a foot or two of pipe out to start, and my brother drove the tractor in low gear low range at idle while I took a slow walking pace unrolling the coil of plastic water line and half-guiding it down into the boot. I had to hold the line for the first 5-10 feet or so until the ground grabbed it enough to prevent dragging it, but after that it was just a leisurely walk behind the tractor uncoiling the tube. We laid it in one piece and had a 'finishing hole' waiting at the other end. It ended up about 18 inches deep, which is plenty in our area. Worked like a champ! The starter and finish hole also allowed us to cut the tubing off underground and plumb it into the existing PVC water lines at the well end and switch to standard PVC fittings at the trough spigots. Handier than sliced bread and took about 2 hours to build! OL JR <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="luke strawwalker, post: 486266, member: 7455"] I did something quite similar with my old Dearborn subsoiler and it worked great. What I did though was to take a couple scrap pieces of 1/8 inch thick steel plate, about a foot or so wide and about 2 feet long, and make torch cuts in it about 2 or 3 inches long and then skip an inch or two, so I could get a clean bend. I torched a couple or three bolt holes thru the plate to correspond to some bolt holes through the subsoiler shank and then bolted it up, heated the plate and bent it out slightly, and then on a second line of cuts bent it back straight to widen out the 'slot' into a 'bell' shape between the two plates to the size of a lawnmower belt idler pulley. Once everything was nice and parallel, I pulled the plates off and ran a 6011 welding bead over the cuts to strengthen the steel back up, and then installed it back on the shank and installed the pulley a couple inches away from the bottom and put a couple big 1 1/2 inch nuts at the top between the plates, and put a 5/8 bolt thru the plates and nuts and out the other side and put a 5/8 nut on that to stiffen the whole thing up and provide a 'guide' for the tubing. I then used it to lay a 400 foot roll of black plastic water line right thru the yard, gate, pasture, and to where I wanted my troughs. I dug a 'starter hole' about a foot deep and pulled about a foot or two of pipe out to start, and my brother drove the tractor in low gear low range at idle while I took a slow walking pace unrolling the coil of plastic water line and half-guiding it down into the boot. I had to hold the line for the first 5-10 feet or so until the ground grabbed it enough to prevent dragging it, but after that it was just a leisurely walk behind the tractor uncoiling the tube. We laid it in one piece and had a 'finishing hole' waiting at the other end. It ended up about 18 inches deep, which is plenty in our area. Worked like a champ! The starter and finish hole also allowed us to cut the tubing off underground and plumb it into the existing PVC water lines at the well end and switch to standard PVC fittings at the trough spigots. Handier than sliced bread and took about 2 hours to build! OL JR :) [/QUOTE]
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