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Message: <blockquote data-quote="glenbell" data-source="post: 36796" data-attributes="member: 2828">I think he's referring to a way to slit the sod/ground open and lay pipe/wire in the slit with minimal ground distruption all in one operation as  in those machines that do that very job for underground sprinkler installations? Ditch Witch is one maker of those I believe. But using the thumb on the bucket is not what he wants as in a wide trench I'm thinking....more like a narrow ripper tooth with a hose hole /chinese finger lock thing to pull pipe into ripper slit. If my assumptions are correct it wouldn't be too hard to fabricate up, just need to make the hole hole on the end of the ripper taperred so you put put a plug in it to do 2 things: lock the hose to the ripper and keep the hose from filling with dirt as it's pulled along in the round. Not sure how much vibration would be necessary as long as the machine had the oomph to pull that ripper through the ground. A nice sharp inner edge along a bit of a "(" curve would do it I think. Glen</blockquote>