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 had the tommy™ for five years now, and never had any problems on my sites, even with the stringent North Carolina regs. We run a couple of different companies, but with the tommy™ I can send out a relatively inexperienced crew and still get great looking fence. It gives us a very professional look with tight, non-sagging fence.
Curtis Lynn
Pressure Works Inc
Charlotte, NC
