Trenching

[blucoondawg]

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550 feet in 45 min. 18" deep, 6" wide.
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$125 for the day.
Work smarter. Not harder.
Finished project. If going across finished lawn, rent a sod cutter and cut your path you want to trench. Roll up the sod, dig your trench, backfill and the just roll the sod back over the path.
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If there is worry about damaging lawn I recommend a vibratory plow, you won't even be able to tell you were there.

 

[blucoondawg]

Call a local irrigation contractor with a cable plow , I have one ,150 ft 18 inches in the ground about 15 minutes .

Yep, also some electricians or contractors who install fiberoptic, gas, and electric services for the local utilities will have these machines too if there's a crew in the area

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

. . . If you are in an area with expansive clay soil, like all that black clay East of Dallas, you really want to make sure you put in a pipe that slides in and out while the ground moves. If you use schedule 40 pvc and glue it together, it will break.

Eddie

Eddie: What kind of pipe do you recommend that would "slide in and out while the ground moves"?

 

[truckdiagnostics]

Use your pallet forks, at that depth not big deal. When I didn't have forks I just welded a piece of c channel to the bottom of the bucket and torched the welds off and ground it smooth when done.

 

[blucoondawg]

I'd use pex type pipe not pvc

 

[Baby Grand]

Eddie: What kind of pipe do you recommend that would "slide in and out while the ground moves"?

Maybe gasket pipe, like this?
http://www.harvel.com/sites/www.harvel.com/files/documents/Brochure-PVC_Gasket_Pipe.pdf
... or this:
Gravity Sewer Pipe And Fittings | JM Eagle

 

[bdog]

No they are going to sit on the machine while the work is being done, if it takes you all day to dig a trench this distance 12" deep then you should sell your backhoe.
I put over 1000 feet of chain link fence around my yard and through woods mostly so pushing the tractor straight and trenching wasn't really an option with dodging around trees and uneven ground, I had the wife drive as I dug and I dug deeper than a foot and dug deeper for the post holes at the same time and it didn't take long at all even with running strings and measuring out post spacing. Digging a little ditch for a pipe will take no time.

My comment wasn't really regarding the time rather the fact that there is no seat for them. Maybe some machines have two seats but on my M59 the seat just rotates around. So if I am using the backhoe there is no seat for someone to sit in to drive it. Hence they would be standing and trying to drive which would be interesting trying to push the pedals.

 

[4570Man]

I can reach the cruise control lever from the backhoe seat. I leave the loader bucket up, and lift up the stabilizers and drive forward. I could dig your trench with my BH90 in a couple hours in good dirt.

 

[blucoondawg]

My comment wasn't really regarding the time rather the fact that there is no seat for them. Maybe some machines have two seats but on my M59 the seat just rotates around. So if I am using the backhoe there is no seat for someone to sit in to drive it. Hence they would be standing and trying to drive which would be interesting trying to push the pedals.

I have a subframe mount Woods bh90x on my kioti, it has 2 seats, a single seat machine, like a commercial tlb, would be ideal then there isn't a problem, just spin around and drive forward. For me the time consuming pain in the arse is getting off and back on the other seat every time you move.