Problems with Trenching
Problems with Trenching
- Cannot turn to install J-hooks and smiles now required in most SWPPP's and ESC manuals
- So many locations where trencher cannot manuever at all makes trenches not feasible
- Requires extra crew members
- Work-stoppage in wet conditions or complete inability to operate
- Slow and costly excavation
- Cumbersome backfill and compaction (leaving a half empty trench is not longer allowed)
- Expensive and frequent high cost maintenance with claims and hydraulics
- Moving chains and throwing rocks is hazardous to employees and increases insurance
- Incalculable lost profits from time lost and customers lost
- Expensive call backs from washed-out silt fence
- Poor visual installation if constructed on a windy day or with 10 feet post spacings
- Inability to service customers in a short time - either before a coming storm, after a significant storme, or between storms
- Al the extra cost with more employees - overtime, workman's comp. payroll taxes (15%) insurance base on payroll, rainy days lost, etc.
Hassles of Trenching
- Excavation in sod, rocky soil, wet conditions
- Trencher getting stuck in soft soils
- Hand-digging many locations
- Management of more employees
- Time-consuming over-lapping joints
- Lost partial rolls and needs for extra stakes
- Cannot manuever around obstacles or trees
- Backing up and causing damages
Customer Comments
I’ve owned my tommy™ for 5 ½ years. It’s been nearly maintenance free. We run it for 2 businesses and just haven’t had any downtime. It works wonderful. It has reduced handwork tremendously over trenching- no backfilling and fighting the wind.
Sherry Wetherington
Sherry’s Seeding
Stella, NC
