My wife wanted a camera* to keep an eye on her chickens so I fixed that. At the time I got two refurbs for the price of one new so a spare had been lying around for years. Last week I saw some digging marks under my beehives I could not place and so … I spent a few bucks on a pipe, pulled utp through it and hooked up the spare in front of the hives. Now I ‘only’ need to sink it into the ground. Just digging 70 meters through stony soil.
* the first one hangs on the garage so it was easy to power and build a wifi bridge
Rent one of these:
I just dug about 200’ of trench with one of these mounted on a skidsteer, borrowed from a neighbor. Needed to bury some gas lines and electrical cable. Beats the hell out of a backhoe, and especially a shovel.
Of course, I had to fix it because the nose wheel bearing piled up about 10’ into the job. I guess that’s cheaper than renting. I’ll take it back with a bottle of whiskey.
As someone who has dug a few trenches, yea, I wish I had one of those.