Posted by MarkB_MI on February 19, 2015 at 02:46:14 from (70.194.0.224):
In Reply to: walk behind trencher posted by steven in tn on February 18, 2015 at 16:15:01:
It depends on how deep you need to go, what kind of soil you have and what sort of trencher it is. 1500 feet is a long run with any machine. And you may need to clean out the bottom of the trench by hand to get the full depth.
I've used a couple of different walk-behind trenchers. Neither one was fun in our hard clay, but they got the job done. The trenches were both only about 150 feet long. The first one was for a water line and I used a 48" walk-behind. This was a pretty good machine and worked well until it started raining. You definitely want to do your trenching on a dry day, because walk-behinds don't work well on wet grass.
The second trench I dug was for an electrical cable and I only needed to go down two feet. I used a 24" trencher (all I could get) and it didn't work as well as the larger one had, but got the job done in the end.
Both of the units I rented were quality Ditch Witch trenchers. I've seem some cheaper units for rent at HD that I would not bother with. And for a quarter-mile long trench in hard ground, I think I'd either hire it done or at least find the largest unit I could rent, even if it meant a long drive. Trenching 1500 feet is going to be an all-day job with an average-size walk-behind, you might as well spend a couple of hours towing a big unit from out of town instead of walking behind a too-small unit.
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