Meet BB my new machine.

[Fixastuff]

76hp turbo duetz, 4x4x4 with a 6way blade, plow and trencher. Putting it to work tomorrow. BB stands for big b#$%h. Lol.

 

[arrow]

Serious piece of equipment. Nice to be able to lay line while trenching at the same time.
Good luck w it.

 

[Tinhack]

Make sure to post pictures of it in action!

I'm not familiar with the working parts I see. What is the plow-looking thing? Will that dig a trench and lay cable/pipe?

I rented this one to put in my city water line.

 

[Fixastuff]

Serious piece of equipment. Nice to be able to lay line while trenching at the same time.
Good luck w it.

There is a toggle switch, you can only run one at a time.

Make sure to post pictures of it in action!

I'm not familiar with the working parts I see. What is the plow-looking thing? Will that dig a trench and lay cable/pipe?

I rented this one to put in my city water line.

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The thing on the right is a vibratory plow. A hydraulic motor spins a gear that spins an out of balance shaft and it shakes is a off. You can feed conduit/wire/etc through the shoot or you can pull a chain to a floating bullet(3" in my case) then a metal chinese finger that grips the conduit 2" in my case. You park the reel on the reel trailer at the start point, pulls it off the reel through the ground and it just makes a 1.5" or so cut in the ground that seals back up. No backfilling like the trencher I've been using. My longer runs will be 1200ish ft between boxes sometimes it only 2-600ft between boxes/vaults. Hoping to do 3000ft a day with this might even be able to get more!

 

[Mrsig]

Congrats & enjoy it.

 

[oosik]

Interesting machine.

 

[Fixastuff]

Here it is in action.

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[Joel/ak]

I really like that machine

 

[grsthegreat]

ive seen these in action, but they wont work in my rocky soil. the ones they have to use here are attached to a d6 dozer. i only wish i had sandy soil. everytime i dig i pull out boulders.

 

[Fishin-4-a-Livin]

Very nice machine OP.


I’m currently in the market for a trencher myself.

 

[Fixastuff]

Got in a little over 3600 ft with it today. Pretty happy.

 

[Fixastuff]

Heres another video.

The machine had been a great purchase. I timed it yesterday, put in 915ft of 2" conduit 30" deep in 27minutes. Ended up getting a little over 2500ft in would have done more but my helper is sick so I was running solo and can only work on this highway 10am-3pm because it gets so much traffic. The picture is what it looks like after I drive over it twice with BB after plowing. Sure beats trenching.

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[arrow]

Doesn't even look like you've been there.
Great machine and glad it is working out so well for you..

 

[Fixastuff]

Doesn't even look like you've been there.
Great machine and glad it is working out so well for you..

Thanks. It's been crazy dry this summer and the dirt so powdery so some if the areas I trenched earlier in the year I've been back to do restoration on 3-4 times(super dry then a short hard downpore and the trenches sink in) Looking forward to not worrying about that anymore.

 

[ATX]

Nice! What year?

 

[5030]

It is a nice machine but for my uses not necessary. When I need to run a trench for cable or water pipe, I either call Black Swamp or Herc Rentals and have them deliver me a machine. They come full of fuel and serviced.

 

[Fixastuff]

Nice! What year?

2005. I had to clean the valve in the block that switches from the plow to the trencher and drain and clean the fuel tank. I'm very happy with it and have been offered twice what I paid for it but it makes me that much in two weeks so I declined.

It is a nice machine but for my uses not necessary. When I need to run a trench for cable or water pipe, I either call Black Swamp or Herc Rentals and have them deliver me a machine. They come full of fuel and serviced.

It has a trencher on the back also and a 6 way blade up front. I do this every day for a living so renting doesn't make much sense for me. My best weeks I put in 9-10kft my bad weeks 2-4kft. Much depends on what utilities are in the way, how many peds/vaults need to be set and driveway/road bores. I'm trying to hire more people so I don't have to stop plowing to do those things and the operation runs along with everything being done at once.

 

[5030]

I see your point, for me, it's a non starter. Most utlilities around here and phone companies own their own machines. Never seen a contractor cutting a trench here.

 

[Williy]

Nice machine! that big claw like the back part of a
hammer nice for pulling big big nails??? or pulling
spikes for MR CHOO CHOO?????

After looking at the video you sure have a excellent
machine, being able to run on the road and swing to
the side for laying cable etc really great!

willy

 

[5030]

Considering how inattentive drivers are today, anything that has to do with working on the side of a roadway scares me cones or no cones. Lots of drivers today drive in the 'ozone.

Just had one of the local refuse company employees get run over while emptying trash cans on the back of the refuse truck. The driver ran him over and he got stuck under the car and was dragged a couple hundred feet before the driver stopped. (or realized he had someone under the car). Broke both legs, one arm and collapsed lung. Critical condition and a young person too.

Driving today is a serious responsibility but people take it for granted. I'd never want to work on the roadside, cones or no cones.