Bury 100ft of wire 10in deep in 10 minutes without any mess. 

Damn, why so many haters on a couple of hard working guys trying to make something of themselves? Keep it up fellas......

Shipping via UPS ground is average $36. I use boron steel for the blades - cost 27$, steel pipe - 8$, welding rod plus the electricity I figure 5$, about 4$ for the paint, Rubber coat for the handle is 5$, steel cutting blades (boron is 4× harder than regular steel plate) 5$, I'd say 1$ for cardboard n tape to package it. Last but not least. About 3 hrs to build, paint, package and do the office work part. All included into the 155$ price tag. If I were to run this as a business and hire a welder.. by the time I pay that welders wages and the taxes on that person. (because the government makes the business pay taxes on an employee's wages also) A welder should make at least 15$per hour. (The guys I know make around 20 an hour) With the cutting, welding, grinding, painting and packaging it really does take more than an hour to do all of that. The cheapest welding company I can find is 60$ an hour. So at 140$ I'd be making almost nothing. Making it impossible to even get a shop.. and forget about insurance or employee benefits. That's why I make them myself! Thanks for reading, Dan

Man that's a awesome tool, I've seen it at work before and I will be in touch with you shortly before spring.

I'm a new generation network engineer. Thank you for your lesson. Also may I say I appreciate your education it is much more useful than anything a university could show me

I'd ask how you deal with rocky soil, but I'm guessing the same way everyone does. By cursing a lot.

Great tool. As a former irrigator in Texas there are few places this tool would work due to heavy clay, rocks, roots and hard, dry, compacted soils. The job site you are on us a perfect setting. Good video, Dan - continued success. (I remember several jobs in the Texas Hill Country where I had to rent rock saws for burying lines).

I used a shovel for this for years - this will definitely speed the process up. Just ordered one.

Well............received the spade this afternoon. INITIALLY DISAPPOINTED . My intention was to use this for installing water lines in North Florida as I am a water treatment contractor. No rocks here. Lots of sand but we have a lot of dirt too. The spade came very well protected in cardboard and VERY heavy and VERY WELL made. I had a very hard time piercing the ground ( I though we supposed to have loose sandy soil) and I weigh 200+ lbs. Then I realized.... this is where I sometimes park the truck. Duh..... Very compacted ground. Then, I went to a part of my lawn where I'd bury pipe if doing a normal job. WOW! Went right in and deep! Worked back and forth a 4 or five times and was able to shove a 1 inch pvc pipe in the trench. LOVE this thing. It's gonna make our jobs much faster, easier, and neater! This is worth every penny I paid for it. The guys who say they will make one never will Mr. Wilton, don't pay any attention to the cheapskate whiners that never had an original idea in their lives who say it's overpriced, or they will make it themselves, It isn't and they won't. I love to see successful entrepreneurs bring their ideas to fruition! Thank you and good luck!

What a brilliant tool, whoever said "Necessity is the mother of invention" sure was right. Ray H. (From the U.K.)

Hey bro that is freaking awesome!!!! I did similar work with a spade shovel for irrigation but it took a lot more work with a shovel! You have created a wonderful tool. Good job it's guys like you that give inspiration to others to make our blue collar work worth its while! Thank you

Very resourceful implement. I like your trench closing dance to bro. Love to see people make cool things that make the job easier. Congratulations. Hope you sell a shit ton of them and get paid big time!

I love this simple bare-bones solution. I just wanted to run about a 50 foot underground Cat5 cable to my back shed from my house. Watched another video where a guy runs 3/4 inch electrical pipe spends hundreds of dollars and a couple days labor doing what you just did in a few minutes. This is just what I needed. Simple is sometimes the best. The other guy says his solution will last 20-30 years, but guess what ? Ethernet will likely be obsolete in 5 years. And no reason to think your solution won't last just as long. Thanks again..

love it! will be building one right away after all these yrs of doing it the hard way, this is appreciated bud.

Dan that's a first class tool in so many ways The impact to the yard is so little it's all most as if you were never there home owners love things like this. The cost of the tool is a good price range Yes the cheap it is the more you will sell but a sold well build tool that saves time the way this one does is well worth the price. you may check with the big box stores like Home D and Lows I thank they rent tools and this is one home -owners would rent after seeing your video of it in used Thanks for posting I will tell people I know that do this type of work of your tool. Dan thanks for posting as this tool is a must have for so many contractors like you for the cable like you did lights for out- side Invisible fencing for dogs Wire for secure or video units you may wish to hide around your home. Wire for IR Beams or detector letting you know someone is walking in your back or thanks for a job well done.

So grateful I found your video! We ordered your 6 inch trench tool and used it to lay an underground dog fence wire. The tool was a dream to use and the ground really does close back easily to hire your work once the wire is laid. You can barely tell we laid wire. Thanks!

I just used my 10 inch Wilton Spade to knock out 300 feet of direct burial Ethernet cable in about 2 hours just after a fresh rain. Saved me a ton of time and work.

Great job man,wish all the best to you and your brother,I hope you sell enough trenches so you won't have to work as hard man,good luck!

This is no doubt the 'must have tool' for anyone whose job involves burying wire or cable. Dan is awesome to work with and stands behind his product with great service. Saves time, saves blisters, saves money. Don't leave home without it! Thank you Dan, for this innovation that is making such a difference in the lives of cable guys everywhere!

nice reminder of sharing cable TV with my neighbor

Dang! I just came across your video while trolling RU-vid for interesting stuff and I am thoroughly impressed with your honest and humble presentation. I am a chick, I don't need to dig a trench or lay a cable underground, but I like your video so much that as soon as I get a job, I'm going to come back here and buy one of your trenchers! Keep up the good work, my brother! Honesty and humility are more valuable now than ever before! I've "liked" and shared to my massive friends list (of 48, last count)! LOL! You're a good man.

Nice work. A perfect example of making exactly what you need. Great ingenuity. Many thanks sir. And thank you for selling these.

Very solid video. I'm a field engineer for phone company in NW and this helped me understand how our contractors direct bury fiber drops.

Looks like a good tool in the right location! Nice work.

You have no idea how much you've saved my lower back, knees, and a lot time (not to mention cursing)! Will definitely will be checking this tool out, thank you and God bless.

Always a good idea to take a photo and store it away for the future. Guaranteed someone will need to dig there in future. Nice to be able to reference exact location and not rely on memory or landscape landmarks which will fade over time quickly.

Great product. You might consider also selling thin, firm "sleeves" for feeding the cable into the trench (since not all cabling is firm enough to self feed) If the trench was wider, somebody could just use a 1/2 inch piece of pvc, cut to 3-4 feet. But with the thin trench, a thinner sleeve may add value to your "system." Cheers

Looks like a very soft lawn. In Missouri out in the wood where I live, you only have to go 4 inches down to hit rocks. It's pick and shovels here my man.

Where were these when I ran cable? Looks like a great time saver. Good work guys

Great idea! If you’re in this line of work this tool would pay for itself with the time you’d save digging a trench. I think it’s worth the money.

That's a great idea! I've dug a few trenches and this would have been a lot easier

I love this idea. So quick and convenient. I have used this method before to install a sprinkler system. I just made the trench one inch wide just enough to push the pipes down and then cover it up. I only used the shovel for the valve boxes 😎

Thanks, gents. You just saved me hours and hours of work.

Wish I had one of those a year ago when I was running my landscape lighting! Nice idea. Innovation and it works. Good luck. I know where to get one if I ever do it again

This would be a great tool for anyone wanting to install a buried radio fence for pet containment!

I bought the tool and liked what I saw. Took it out in the back yard (sandy loam in Northern Indiana) to give it a try and couldn't get it in the ground by jumping up and down on it. So today I tried it for real and painted a line in the grass to bury 80' of UF cable. No go. I sharpened it to a knife edge. Wife and I are now using the Bobcat with pallet forks spaced 8" apart and are pushing down with the weight of the machine to where the front whaeels are off the ground. Wife is operating the Bobcat while I rock the spade back and forth. Two hours in and we're about 1/3 done. Wife says she will never help me again with anything. It obviously works in some soils as I saw it work in the video.

What a great, yet simple tool, to do a job very quickly and efficiently... I salute you sir.....

"Probably outta cut that part out..."

I'm a homeowner and I already want one!

this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. from Victoria BC Canada

So much better buried than strung from a pole. Nice job.

Gotta get this on Amazon. Need one now. Prime woulda been nice.

2:46 "gonna cut that part out" *doesnt* lmao. this thing is brilliant, i just bought one on your website!

Not during that method in my soil either, got roots to worry about also. Years ago needed to bury power cable plus waterline, tried digging, gave up. rented a ditch witch, best $$ I ever spent

Great idea and a good looking tool that certainly would save a LOT of time and labor. I hope you do really well sir... Plus I learned something today. I had no idea boron was that much stronger than regular steel.

I work for a big telephone company and you don't know how many customers call in stupid repairs because the service wire wasn't buried deep enough. This tool needs to be in every contractors hands! You should also put together a tool that pushes the wire down just to ensure the wire gets deep enough. Maby a just a handle with a piece of 1/4 inch pipe cut in half at the end basically making a T. Just an idea. Great vid

The soil in Az is made of calcium carbonate aka as Caliche. It is natures cement. Practically impenetrable. I know, I have to use a pick to even scratch the surface. Cable TV will lay the cable down and use the gravel in your landscape to cover it. How I wish for soil so penetrateble as your's. Great tool if you're not in caliche.

Looks like a great method as long as the ground is relatively rock free.

I SHARED YOUR VIDEO WITH FACEBOOK,I HOPE IT GOES VIRAL

Good Job phone man that's just a way to make ure job easy and make money at the same time nothing wrong with that and for the jerks who think they can make it for $20 those won't last one lawn and they forget the time it takes you to cut,shape,temper the steel then tac weld it all together,good job!!

for anyone interested,,, burying yellow caution tape in this trench a few inches from the surface help eliminate a chopped wire in the future from digging, or post holes, etc.

you're on to something. I've use a pressure washer to get by roots with a few days of mess. not commercial or work just personal. love the idea.

Ok im back with the feedback. This tool is excellent & very solid. It has increased my $$$. I also have surf the internet for countless hrs & was very surprised a tool of this kind didnt exist...WELL NOW IT DOES! Its worth every penny & it comes from a guy who works the field so he knows the demands of this line of work. A lot of these tools are designed buy guys who sit behind desk with zero field experience therefore are not made proper & break easily. U will be very satisfied with this product. I will be ordering a 2nd one soon...

couldn't do 1 ft in 10 days in Arizona with that tool ! Definitely great for where he was though .

Very clever

Very good video! You're right, the homeowner would be hard pressed to find that groove in the lawn, mow the lawn once and it would be impossible. The tool reminds me of an over grown and much sturdier garden bed edger. Good Job and good luck. I'm following you guys on Facebook now.

The most trustiest tool I’ve ever used! Thank you for designing this

this is a fantastic idea for landscaping lights they're low voltage so 10 inches is more than enough of a bury. $140 is a steal

Here in the north Georgia red clay/rock it would be impossible to get more than 2 inches deep. But I can see how this would be very useful in the right soil. I've used a lawn edger to dig for low voltage landscape lighting wire.

Neat deal. Back in 70's was working at high school during summer and we buried a number of low voltage lines. They had some tool called a wire weasel. Had wheel to tool along ground and an adjustable blade that dropped behind the wheel to slice the trench. Could feed the wire thru it into the slice. In normal soil two guys could walk it across a yard. No idea where they got it. Have never seen another - not that I ever needed one after that to go searching.

Looks like a great tool. I could have used it back in my Dish Network installation days.

Its called slot feeding been doing it 30 years burying irrigation electric wire. , it is fast and he has a damn nice shovel... You can do it with a flat shove not as deep or good...

PLEASE! visit my channel ru-vid.com/show-UCw7h5zFe_VWnzdorUefkHBQ to see use of the spade on other properties with different soil conditions.Also note that..When referring to the customers as mine they're actually customers of the phone company that I work for. But of course I treat them like my own and they are NOT being charged for the service. The phone company flips the bill and even sends a crew to check for depth, quality and customer satisfaction.. as part of customers service plan. I've always been rated very high by customers and inspectors and hardly a day goes by that a customer doesn't see me using my spade and tell me that I should patent or produce them. The company I contract for even sets the price and tells me what they are going to pay me per job. As any drop bury contractor would know.. some jobs can be done in 10 minutes where while others take hours. So the customer actually Never gets screwed because they don't pay anything and I get paid really good for some and shit for others but It all equals out in the end. Thanks for Reading, Dan

A man in the field is always the best consumer and inventor of whatever he needs in order to get the job done!

Homeowner here working on a diy irrigation system I'll definitely be ordering the 6 inch one to run my lines.

These should be used ONLY for electrical cables that are less than 50volts. Any cable with more voltage has a minimum depth of 12 inches, and that's if it is ground fault protected. Remove that protection, the burial depth goes to a minimum 18", 24" if there is vehicle traffic.

guys I worked irrigation for years used a shovel. but man that tools awesome. instant saw how God it is and useful. I almost consider a tree handle on top. looks like it's got a good weight balance. not to heavy but enough to drive in dryer soils? I considering get one. just to have. good luck!

That looks great for short runs. It was actually that very effect that caused me to invent a little adapter to my tractors box blade that allowed me to just drive along and bury the wire at the same time. I used a similar method to run water pipe all over our 7 acres. Only the junctions took any real time at all.

You just saved me a crap load of time, thanks for making this video!

I might buy one. I'm worried about finding an unmarked-private-"handyman"-buried electric wire and get shocked. Does it have insulation of any kind or is just metal?

I Would just like to encourage folks to go to my channel and check out my other videos involving drop bury work. There's more videos of me using the spade on real job sites, techniques for using it, some equipment operation, working videos and even when a whitetail youngin walked right up next to us on a job site. Plus I'm going to be putting up some videos of what I do in the winter when I can't drop wire. It's some pretty cool and fun stuff! Thanks for reading this n hope you go check it out n subscribe! Dan

Such a simple tool. I need one. Thanks for the insight.

Thanks from Cali. Dan Wilton

needs a T handle. Dominos Pizza called and want to know why in the hell are you shoving their pizza spatulas in the ground ?

Aint gonna be that easy if its hot and dry. Nice slick move having that irrigation going! That makes it rasy to shove in and separate the moist soil!

That is awesome. I dug a 4" deep trench in sand about 50 feet and it wasn't fun. I suspect this wouldn't work too well in sand.

Safety is a minor setback to any project lol. After studying the design of the tool. I will be making one of my own. Without the Safety rubber handle. Instead I will be using a combination of duct tape and hockey stick tape. Thank you for the video friend 👍

I ordered mine 9 days ago and looking forward to receiving it. Thank you for what looks like a brilliant innovation. I emailed you yesterday for tracking info to check on it. I ordered through PayPal. Do you offer tracking info for buyers? I know with the holiday mail, it may take a bit longer, but tracking info is one thing I forgot to ask about when I ordered it & Paypal doesn't offer it. Please let me know, or an idea of how long it usually takes to arrive (I'm in Florida). Thanx!

Sweet tool, I usually do it around my house with an 8" flat spade. My soil would be too rocky and tough to tough to use this unless it was spring perhaps.

I used to make these 30 years ago. Square though, finally started having a welder make them for me, around $50.00 a piece. Good price.

i would of painted a line

You wouldn't use that in my yard. Too much rock. You could go down an inch though.

excellent tool buddy. Thanks for posting.

brilliant idea. The simplicity for what it does is genious..but 140$ Still a great idea. Good for you.

You damn sure ain't doing that in Texas. We've got real dirt here.

Your dreaming. $140 !!! THE CHINESE. ALREADY GOT A KNOCKOFF FOR $49 !!!

Great looking tool but that lawn looks so soft! Would like to see that dead of summer with no rain..

That is awesome wish you 100 % success and I might be buying one in the future

what dope is he smoking? That can be made for about $20

That's a great tool - hope you sell a ton of them. Not sure how well it would on my rocky Pennsylvania mountaintop - our soil is very shallow here.

Great idea man!!!! Awesome!!

I watched but I ended up using an edger to make the first groove then dug it deeper with a claw hammer. I had to use what I had but thank you for making helping videos.

Excellent idea. Good luck with them.

Fantastic work!

I’m currently digging post holes for a fence in the hill country of Texas. It takes about 3 hours per hole to get to 30” deep. If you go less deep it won’t last with the wind. Using galvanized posts for a 6’ privacy fence and I fill each hole with concrete

Great tool!! So handy!!

Another video I can't understand anyone would dislike. Why the thumbs down?

Nice tool. I hope you sell a bunch

Awesome. Great ingenuity! What about harder soil? Maybe you could come up with one for that as well, some soil near as solid as concrete.

Ive been using a wedge 20 years. Its the same tool just not as wide and more rectangular. And it has the handle going over the top

I think it's a damn good tool !!!smart thinking