A friend of mine told me that at Dayton, over the past few years, he has seen a
tool that looks like a lineoleum knife with a small tube welded onto it for
cutting the earth and burying an antenna radial at the same time. You feed the
wire through the tube, and as the tool cuts the earth, it dispenses and buries
the wire. Has anyone seen this tool, and who makes it ??? Where can I buy one
???

As others have mentioned, this sort of system may require more
cutting/pulling force than a human arm/hand can provide safely, unless
your soil is fairly soft.

A tractor- or horse-drawn plow blade, modified slightly, has been used
to do this sort of radial-burying for commercial radio stations. A
blade is made out of thin (but stiff) sheet steel, and (it appears
from the photo here) a bent piece of conduit is welded to the back
edge of the blade to feed the wire into the ground.

A picture of such a plow in use appears on page 189 of Laport's "Radio
Antenna Engineering".

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