Burying wire and irrigation lines

[rush389]

I just pulled the trigger on a new 3025e and one of my first projects will be burying the wire for an invisible dog fence. I only need to get an inch or so of dirt on top of the wire.

Also, eventually I would like to run some additional 1 inch irrigation lines to feed a dripper system.

My best guess is that a subsoiler like this is my best bet:

3 Point Subsoiler-Subsoiler Attachment | Agri Supply #7341

Am I on the right track?

 

[3Ts]

It will handle the dog fence wire. I don't know about the 1" irrigation line. It will have to be a poly and not PVC line. Your tractor weighs about 2000# so you're not going to get very deep with the pipe. It takes a lot of weight and some power for anything that moves thru the dirt.

 

[rush389]

It will handle the dog fence wire. I don't know about the 1" irrigation line. It will have to be a poly and not PVC line. Your tractor weighs about 2000# so you're not going to get very deep with the pipe. It takes a lot of weight and some power for anything that moves thru the dirt.

ok thanks. yeah, i was thinking the poly.

 

[i7win7]

You may want a lawn edger for the invisible fence, less destructive to lawn, make a groove and insert wire.
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I think your on the right track for irrigation line, you may need to blow water out at end of season.

 

[aesmith]

I don't know what you guys call it on your side of the pond but our normal underground water pipe, what we call "blue alkathene" is pretty resistant to frost damage. I wouldn't worry at all about laying it where it might freeze, so long as you don't need to used it at that time. In fact the pipework inside our open barn freezes every winter. The only real issue is movement, make sure it won't push or pull a fitting off when the temperature changes.
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[yanmars]

I do not know where you live, the type of soil or how deep you need to bury the 1 inch. I used to work for a company that buried underground hard telephone cable back in the day and that took serious power but we went pretty deep. Can the company advise what HP/weight etc. you would need?

 

[rush389]

for the dog wire, i just want to create a little pocket so it doesn’t get cut by the bush hog. probably going to encircle two acres or so.

for the pipe, i am not too worried about freezing. we have a bunch of that black poly stuff everywhere, i just want to add more. right now we have some drip lines on the hose spigot on the house, and i have to disconnect every time i mow the grass. i just want to run some pipe to tie those drip lines into the rest of our irrigation system.

 

[Carl_NH]

As i7Win said an edger will give you a slot to install the dog fence. You could use the trencher too but too deep it may not be as effective.

If you get the trencher you will need the pipe option too Single Tine Ripper 3-Point Pipelayer Attachment | Agri Supply 73622

It will work reasonably well if you don't have a lot of bony/rocky soil probably get you to 4-6" deep with pipe. Its a two person job.

 

[wheelbuilder]

I used a single bottom plow to put in wire for an invisible fence with my old sears tractor. It dug down 4-5 inches with out too much trouble. Roots were the biggest issue for me. Did the same for my Dad's satellite dish (different tractor and 14 inch plow), but we did have to deepen it some by hand. Around here, low voltage doesn't have a depth requirement, and power needs to be at least a foot. When we were done, we just rolled the furrow back, pretty clean.
I can't speak to pipe, but it's worked out for me with wire.
If you've got tough ground, it may not work as well.

 

[TractorGuy]

Careful where you mount the charger for the dog wire. The wire tends to be a lightening magnet.

I tried the invisible fencing once and didn't have it in the ground two weeks before I had a lightening strike. It blew the controller off the wall in my garage and blew the GFI outlet it was plugged into out of the wall.