Is there a cable bury attachment?

   / Is there a cable bury attachment? #1  

Rob 80

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I don't need anything major the cable only has to be a few inches in the ground (ethernet cable). I've seen some hand made jobs but does anyone sell such a thing?
 
   / Is there a cable bury attachment? #2  
A friend of mine owns a irrigation company, he has pulled wire and conduit for me with his Ditch Witch.
 
   / Is there a cable bury attachment? #3  
get a single tine ripper , weld a piece of steel pipe along the back , slip the wire thru the pipe .

Or buy a vermeer lm42 , or a ditch witch 410
 
   / Is there a cable bury attachment? #5  
The 3-pt attachment you want is called a single tine ripper or Subsoiler. The accessory linked above attaches to the Subsoiler for feeding wire or plastic tubing into the cut as you go. You'll also need some type of spool/reel holder. When it's all said and done, it may be cheaper to rent a Ditch Witch if this is a one-time use.
 
   / Is there a cable bury attachment? #9  
Whatever you use, I would add a gage wheel to prevent it from going too deep. Yo don't want to snag buried fiber optic or ???
 
   / Is there a cable bury attachment? #10  
Personally I just got a 3pt trencher. 3' deep & 6" wide. Got a killer deal on it & have several projects for it myself & so do a few friends. Will likely get sold after that. I know a lot of others put basically an elbow on the back of a subsoiler & use that, basically the same thing as the agri-supply link earlier.

Be very careful about burying Ethernet. You can get ground loop issues between different buildings. Commercially people never run copper, they only run fiber between buildings because of this. I did run conduit & put Ethernet in it out to my chicken coop & up to my shop when we did a different trenching project. I'm a huge believer in putting in conduit rather than wire of any sort. That way you can replace, repair or upgrade it as needed without having to trench again. Some areas have huge issues with critters eating small cable that gets buried.
 

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