DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

[perchie.girl]

Quote: My local Home Depot rents 18" deep trenchers for $66 for 4 hours... Here is a trick, rent it about 15-20 minutes before they close and you will have it overnight for the same 4 hour rate, as the hourly rental clock only runs during their business hours... So basically if you rent it about 20 minutes before they close you have it overnight and even for the first 3 1/2 hours the store is open the next day... I do this all the time with their rentals and plan an early morning or late night job, gives you several more hours for the base 4 hour rate and I stress a lot less about the wasted 'delivery' and 'return' time...

Of course anytime you trench have the area surveyed for buried pipes or wires just to be safe...

done it with a post hole digger years ago. Trouble is My home is sixty miles from the nearest Home Depot or any equipment rental place. If I get a beater and mess with it I can leave it set up for every trench I need to do. So for a couple of hundred dollars I have a multi use tool.

I know where my wires are... They run in a trench from the power pole to the house for a thousand feet. Property line is another couple of hundred feet from that.

I have a hose bib that's across the drive which is about twenty feet wide And very hard packed. The only way will be to run water but in line to where I want to start the water line for the chickens then i want to run the line about another 100 feet. But that driveway is going to be a hard nut to crack... Hard packed DG that sucks water Even after a down pour its still hard as a rock.

I may still have to do the driveway with a jack hammer. Sigh But I can do the run from the coop to my horses water tank... with a modified rototilling device.


deb

 

[cabinchicky]

Perchie.girl this is the type I have and use. please note the tines are not like the normal tiller tines most people have. They dig like mad through hard dry compacted soil and dried thick layers of chicken poo too. It may bounce some but gets through it.

 

[perchie.girl]

Perchie.girl this is the type I have and use. please note the tines are not like the normal tiller tines most people have. They dig like mad through hard dry compacted soil and dried thick layers of chicken poo too. It may bounce some but gets through it.

Stihl hunh.. looks like mean dude.... I am thinking i need something with wheels in the back. Can I operate it from a walker?

deb "OFF to look at Sthil rototillers"

 

[perchie.girl]

ooh they do have them with wheels... off to craigslist now.


deb

 

[Blooie]

Pick one up for me too, will you please Deb? I'll send you a check the 2nd Tuesday next week.

 

[perchie.girl]

Pick one up for me too, will you please Deb? I'll send you a check the 2nd Tuesday next week.

actually I found several in my area that are just about right.... ancient yet still being used and under two hundred dollars.

deb

 

[bruceha2000]

OMG I could do that... twelve inches deep is all I need. Just enough to protect the lines from the sun.

deb "OFF to look at used tillers on Craigslist"

You might want to be aware that there is a depth code for gas and power. In Vermont it is 18" minimum. I bet that is standard and why the "small" trencher goes exactly 18" deep.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
Propane and power crosses the driveway... hose bib is a bit lower that that's why I want tap in to that. I am pretty sure they are eighteen inches down.. and after the grader almost tooke it all out I know exactly where it crosses the property.

I would do pvc on top of the ground but the sun killes it and I dont want to drive over it. The other option is to take it from the house but then I would have to go around the Septic and hope i dont dig into the leach field. Right now water is coming from the house via a hose for about a hundred feet or more.

I may still integrate the water pipe into the fence and just cover it with Black pipe. That way I could take the source either from the house or a hosebib in the yard....

While it does get cold, we only get three days of freeze here and maybe four or five days of snow... total.

deb

 

[cabinchicky]

Perchie.girl I think you will be able to run it with wheels on it.I didn't know wheels were an option! Guess I need to go get a set! It may be a good idea to have someone over that day too just in case. I don't want you to hurt yourself. I know with my back issues it will make my arthritis flare from digging a trench with it, but it's what I have.Plus I know there is no way I could run a large garden tiller. Good luck and stay safe!

 

[perchie.girl]

Perchie.girl I think you will be able to run it with wheels on it.I didn't know wheels were an option! Guess I need to go get a set! It may be a good idea to have someone over that day too just in case. I don't want you to hurt yourself. I know with my back issues it will make my arthritis flare from digging a trench with it, but it's what I have.Plus I know there is no way I could run a large garden tiller. Good luck and stay safe!

Believe me I WILL have an audience even if only to prove that I cant do it myself..... Bwhwahahahah.... Funny thing about men when they see a girl diong it they usually wind up "taking over".... hee hee um hee.

deb