Do you think a Potato plow can be used to trench for water lines?I do not have to worry about ground freezes but I will have some long runs so I was thinking about getting a Potato plow for my 2210. Ground is sand/clay mixtures, no rocks. I know nothing about Potato plows and I figure going 6" to12"deep should be enough.
Potato plow
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jdmar
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There was a post several years ago about using a middle-buster to lay plastic water lines. The guy made a trench with the middle buster first to make sure he didn't get hung up. He then went back and made a pass with the pipe fed through a larger diamter metal long bend. The pipe came from over his ROPS. So he dug the trench and layed the tubing at the same time...very slick. I willpsot the link if I can find it.
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I just finished laying 60' of water pipe using my potato plow. Much of the dirt fell back in the hole and had to be shoveled out by hand, but it was all loose and easy to do after a pass with the plow. It is as deep as the old water line was and saved me a lot of digging.
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All this depends on soil type/moisture?passgas55 said:
I've done it,in loam&clay, sprinkler/h20 lines. shorten center link all the way(point will be aggresive towards ground) try/if too much(point trys to pull to deep) back-off center link a bit./multi-pass
go slow/roots a pain& may even break your tractor. deeper you go, shorter the center-link. can get a good 6to8" trench/more? if you got a real short center-link? I never tried(don't have real short center link) worth time &effort to put grinder to cutting edge/helps cut into dirt&keeps clumps of dirt down in size and helps free clump-memory to fall back into trench. final pass, faster speed plow-wings should clean ditch pretty good(better for back-fill& roots too).This is a tough task for your tractor, adjust point(center-link) on each cut pass let the tool(cutting-edge) do it's job. good luck
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I'm trying to do the same thing... dig a trench, that is. I want to bury some electric cable in PVC conduit. I bought a used old potato plow at an auction, but I can't get the plow to dig in. It just rides along the top of the soil. (Clayey, but now sort of dry.) I am using a Cat 1 top link on a 25 HP Kubota compact (?) tractor. So far, no luck no mattere where I set the length of the top link or which of the three "set" holes I pin it in. Frustrating.
Your top link may be too long. I had to go to an 11" (tube body) in order to set a bottom plow that I bought. You can order them from Hoye Tractor parts for somewhere around $25 including the shipping. I think the catalog number is TL-111. I bet that will solve your problem.