When an excavator digs down, unless it is fitted with lasers the ditch floor will be uneven. With trenchers an even floor is made; if sanding of the trench is needed less material is necessary. Trenching offers not just a smooth floor, but smooth sides.

When an excavator lifts up its bucket to dump, the trench stops, but with chain trenchers it just keeps cutting.

The soil from excavators is removed in clumps – even more in black soil. The trenchers grind soil into a fine state, which makes good backfill. The soil can be placed on each side of the ditch, whichever you require.

Trenching, is essentially like digging a long thin hole, perhaps 10 inches wide, and 2 feet deep, for 100 yards. That would be a big job, to finish with a shovel.

A trenching machine, is a large chain saw, a trenching machine digs up the ground to a certain depth, and certain width. Most important, trenching would be required for constructing of footings, irrigation lines, wire lines, pipes, underground utilities, water lines, gas lines, pool lines, and more.

These machines are purpose built in the United States and designed for extreme soil and rock conditions. The cutting chain uses tungsten carbide tipped digging teeth to “grind” the ground as it moves along.

The action of cutting excavates the soil, or spoils, from the trench simultaneously, bringing it up to the top of the digging face where it is dropped on to a conveyor.

The conveyer can be moved to the left or right and discharges the ‘spoils ‘ into rows at a predetermined distance from the trench. As the rows are set away from the trench edge, access by machinery and personnel is less limited and allows for a better; working environment.

On jobsites where you can mechanically backfill with a blade or bucket without damaging turf, big, open-cut ditches are straightforward to cover quickly. Nevertheless you still have to dedicate labor and machine resources to backfilling.

Are there possibilities that are far more labor-efficient and less harmful to landscapes? Fortunately , yes.

Many irrigation contractors have vibratory plows, mini-trenchers and mini-loaders in their hardware arsenal. These machines can be less damaging, more portable or, with the use of different attachments, more versatile than traditional trenchers.

They also minimize taxing work which, arguably, might be one of the most vital advantages in the current day’s labor-shy working environment.

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