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 bought my first tommy™ in ’98 and second in 2000. We’ve probably installed a couple of million feet of silt fence, so we’ve definitely challenged it in as many ways as possible. Some of these soils in California are nearly impenetrable, but we get it done with the tommy™. It just plain works great.
John Gallion
M-IV Equipment Rental Inc.
Santa Paula, CA
