Now that I have your attention!
Need to run some water pipe underground about 75m as the crow flies. (Forgive the units, I am using a Leupold rangefinder and can't figure out how to get the damn thing to read out in feet.) All right let's call it 250 feet.
My thought is to get a coil of 3/4" PVC pipe and use a "subsoiler" on a three-point hitch behind a tractor to embed the pipe in the ground. It won't be below the frost line, but I plan to blow it out with compressed air in the winter anyway.
A "subsoiler" is basically a single tine with a hardened steel tooth on it. You lower the tine with the three point hitch and make a pass. Some tractors are powerful enough to pull the pipe on the first pass, others require more than one. Depends on the soil conditions, depth, etc., Some of these subsoilers include a shear pin so that if the tooth hits a rock, rather than breaking the hitch, the pin (actually a bolt mounted in shear) gives way rather than something more expensive. Some don't use a shear pin, the tractor isn't that powerful, it just stops.
Now some questions:
1) Anybody ever done this themselves before?
2) Is there a preferred method? I realize that there are alternatives, such as a vibratory plow, but am not sure whether these can be rented, and if so, at what expense.
3) If I had a professional install this, such as the folks that do underground sprinkler work, is this an expensive service? For reference, I think dealer rates for Porsche service are "expensive."
Given the distance to run I think hand trenching is out of the question and something more elaborate such as a Ditch Witch is probably overkill.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance, there seems to be a tremendous amount of tractor and farm implement know-how here (guys who like mechanical stuff tend to like a lot of DIFFERENT kinds of mechanical stuff)
