Go the Logstor buried today, took longer to get across the 25' of main driveway than it did to dig the other 100', that sh*t was hard, couldn't even get it to come up in layers, just kept scratching it with the teeth on the bucket until finally got enough loose dirt to get a bucket full. Really amazing that only had rock about 8" deep, then the rest was blue clay that was like freaking concrete. Was wishing I had a full size excavator instead of the Bobcat 116. We also could have borrowed a foot wide bucket instead of the 16" I was using, but makes it really hard to work in the trench then.
Six inches of sand on the bottom of the trench, walked the Logstor into that a little bit then another six inches on top of it. Slid 25' of six inch schedule 40 PVC over it where it went under the driveway. Took the air wand and blew as much sand as possible into the pipe as well. Might be over kill wit hthe PVC and sand, but this is the drive where semi's, grain trucks, tanker trucks and cement trucks come in. Pretty much the main drive, and I don't EVER plan on doing it again.
Uncoiled the Logstor a week ahead of time in the yard, the end that went against the shop we used plastic twine that comes off the large square bales of hay, like 500+ pound knot strength. Tied it back up to keep the curve in it as soon as we unrolled it.
Had to hand dig by the shop as we had a gas line, a direct bury 3 phase line and another 3 phase line in conduit to find. Gas line was easy, old steel one for LP, no longer have LP and too small for Nat Gas so it got cut out. The one in the conduit was easy to find as well, the direct bury one was a little hairier. Finally found it as well. Both lines were only about 30" from the shop wall so not a lot of room to work with the Logstor.
Brought the end that was tied in twine up to the shop, cut the twine off, placed a couple of slings around the Logstor about 25' from the barn and lifted it as high as we could with the excavator so the end with the curve still in it was parallel to the bottom of the trench, then fed a rope under the conduit and main line and tied that to the logstor, I swung the excavator over a little while the hired man pulled on the rope to bring the end up, once he was started I simply lowered it into the trench. Once we had it where we wanted it I took a piece of one inch ratchet strap and went around the Logstor twice then screwed each end of the ratchet strap tight to shop wall. The other end we used the slopster's trick with the one inch ratchet strap except I sacrificed some more of that heavy duty baling twine instead of the strap. All in all wasn't that difficult to handle, have wrestled much worse things before.