Digging

pyroracing85

How do you dig your trenches or whatever digging you have to do on the job?

JamesNLA

Are you seriously asking how to dig a trench?

......very carefully.

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firemike

I guess it depends on what size trench....

Both of these will do the job, one just makes it a little easier.....

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pyroracing85

I was told you couldn't put an excavator on the job site of a house.

Instead of a shovel can you use a "ditch witch" or something like that?

pyroracing85

I was told you couldn't bring this on a "site"

http://www.ditchwitch.com/dwcom/Product/ProductView/106

pyroracing85

not HOW just what tools people use to speed up the process besides a shovel. And if those tools are even legal on a job site.

y0manda

Here is what I use

rex

shovel...pick....spud bar....chipping hammer

i used a mini excavator many times on residential and commercial...if the job is big enough then its worth it....

besides that its all manual labor

firemike

Gee, I hate to think that dayexco, jmic, and the other excavating contractors have been breaking the law all these years...

Where did you hear that pyro... Just curious.

Maybe if you would go into a little more detail as to what you want to do as far as digging the trench. Is it in a building? Outside? How deep and how wide and how long? What for? Do you have to hold a grade? Sure you can use a Ditch Witch for digging a trench, if that is what the job calls for. I have used mini-excavators, 30,000lb excavators, 16hp trenchers, and shovels. All useful tools, but not interchangeable.

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Kingfisher

Pyro,
Someone is just screwing with you, we use excavators on job site all the time, makes no diff if there is a home there or not. Now if the GC of the job told you no then "that is that" but no rule I have ever heard of here in City of Tampa. You thing all those pool guy dig them by hand

pyroracing85

Probably and that is a good think you from tampa cause that is where I am from.

irate808

I make them dig my trenches with a backhoe. I like my trenches atleast 2 feet wide so I can get in the trench with the pipe and make sure I have grade. I also make them dig it a few inches deeper. Id rather throw dirt in to bring it up then dig it out cause it is too high.