Rented one today to run elec. service to my tractor shop.Diff lock didnt work, kept getting stuck, took 3 hours to dig 240 feet. I feel like I wrestled a gorilla all day. Anyway, I guess it beat digging by hand! Get the conduit laid tomorrow and the panel put up and I"ll have permanent power. Not a bad deal, co-op runs the provides and runs the wire for $150. Next concrete and enclose the middle and I"ll have a for real shop. Won"t know how to act working on things not in the dirt! Happy New Year everybody.
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Tom in TN
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- Southern Middle Tennessee
JBMac,
I feel your pain. I dug a little over 400 feet recently with a walk-behind trencher. NEVER again. It was a nightmare all of the way.
But, as you say, it's done now.
Tom in TN
I feel your pain. I dug a little over 400 feet recently with a walk-behind trencher. NEVER again. It was a nightmare all of the way.
But, as you say, it's done now.
Tom in TN
cole in mo.
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Rented a walk behind once, price was from pickup till return, spent more time putting the digging chain back on than digging, when I returned it and pointed out that the boom was bent, they did knock off some.
Ky. Hauler
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Try going up a small hill a little side ways. You almost have to have a man and a rope tied to it. Darn things are top heavy.
Anonymous-0
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Y'all shoulda bought some pre dug fence post holes, and laid them end to end, then just fish the wires through!
Three weeks ago I dug 2900 feet of trenches 18 to 24 inches deep to run water tanks for my cows. 1000 feet of this was down a dirt drive that has been in use for 40 plus years. Very hard clay. I made a wise decision and rented a riding trencher for $125/day. I dug all of this in about 9 hours. I consider it money very well spent.
My son rented a walk behind Case, 20 some hp. Hyd drive to chain so lost at least 1/3 of it's hp. didn't matter because it just spun its wheels and got stuck, took all day to trench about 400 ft of waterline had about 1500 ft to trench. Next day tied our hydrostatic 4320 JD to the front with a chain. put the tractor in low gear and as slow as the cruise control would work, left trencher in N. Had a lot more power for the chain. should have done this to start with. The other 1100 ft was a snap riding in the air-conditioned cab. The job was to big for a walk behind should have rented something bigger. Vic
Ky. Hauler
Member
Provide a hankie.
Mark - IN.
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I can top that. Used a self propelled walk behind job years ago and didn't know about the differential lock, so only one side was engaged, propelled. Was 300' to run electric to that barn with a trencher that wanted to trench in a circle. I kept it pretty straight and needed the workout, but not that bad. Think it was somewhere around the last 50 or 25 feet when I found the lock on the differential for the other side. You probably can't begin to imagine how easy and straight a trencher can cut when both tires are doing what they are supposed to do when they are supposed to. That last 50 or 25 feet went as smooth as silk. Might not have been a bad idea for me to do it that way the whole way. Looking back on it, if I had to do it all over again, I probably would settle for doing it the right way instead of the mostly wrong way that I did. But I really did need the workout, and until this very day, no one has ever confused me with being a rocket scientist.
Mark
Mark
Paul from MI
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Did 2 trenching jobs in my carerr. First one 450' to my barn in 1973 with a borrowed hand start all manual unit. Good thing that old Wisconsin started good, I must have stalled it 500 times hitting rocks in the 2 days it took. Second time, about 300' to my neighbors barn with a walk behind hydraulic unit. Ground too soft for traction. Had to pull it the whole way with a bobcat. Neither one was pleasant experience. Next time I'll hire someone!!
buickanddeere
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Nest trenching job is going to be using a shoe fitted to the back of my JD 22B V-ripper
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