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 purchased the tommy™ in 1997 as I anticipated potential growth of the erosion control industry. We’ve grown by leaps and bounds since then, and the tommy™ has led the way. We run the heck out of it and it just keeps working. It goes into very hard ground and doesn’t take much H.P. It’s also important that we can use it on different equipment, which really gives us flexibility.
Jeff Trog
Valley Erosion Control
Inner Grove Heights, MN
